Ernst Dietrich Anton von Droste zu Füchten

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Ernst Dietrich Anton von Droste zu Füchten (* 1681 ; † September 1, 1731 at Haus Füchten ) was Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia from 1728 to 1731 .

family

He came from a branch line of Droste zu Erwitte and was the son of Caspar Dietrich von Droste zu Füchten and the mother Catrin Elisabeth von und zu Niehausen. He himself married Ursula Sybilla von Plettenberg-Lenhausen , daughter of Johann Adolph von Plettenberg (1655–1696) and Franziska Theresia von Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht . His heir was the son Friedrich Wilhelm von Droste. Friedrich Ferdinand was canon in Münster . Caspar Ferdinand was canon as well as vicar general and court chamber president in Münster. Maria Magdalene Anonetta was initially a canoness in Nottuln and later married Franz Wolfgang von Boeselager. The daughter Clare Regine Adriane married Joseph Clemens von Plettenberg. Ursula Sophie married Ernst Friedrich von Ascheberg.

Life

He was Chamberlain of the Electorate of Cologne and a noble councilor and deputy of the estates in the Duchy of Westphalia . From 1730 he was also the head of the Werl office . From 1728 to 1731, as Landdrost, he was the highest representative of the estates and at the same time representative of the Archbishop of Cologne in his capacity as sovereign of the duchy.

Together with his wife he had the chapel wing of Haus Füchten built in 1726.

He suddenly died of a stroke.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Das Domstift St. Paulus zu Münster, Volume 2 Berlin, New York, 1992 p. 159
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The (free worldly) women's monastery Nottuln. Berlin, New York, 2005 p. 319
  3. ↑ Annual genealogical handbook: In what the current state of all the houses of now reigning European kaysers and kings ... From which the latest news can be found. Gleditsch, 1784 p. 106 digitized
  4. ↑ Private genealogy site

literature

  • Johann Suibert Seibertz : The Land Marshal of Westphalia . In: General Archive for the History of the Prussian State, 1835, p. 91
  • Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian families: with special consideration of their relocation to Prussia, Curland and Liefland. Cologne, 1858. p. 140
personal data
SURNAME Droste zu Füchten, Ernst Dietrich Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH 1681
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1731
Place of death House fruits