Ernst Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg

Ernst Leopold of Holstein-Norburg

Ernst Leopold von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg (historically often shortened to Ernst Leopold von Holstein-Norburg ; * August 13, 1685 in Fürstenau ; † August 7, 1722 in Wesel ) was a prince and titular duke of the House of Schleswig-Holstein -Sonderburg-Norburg . He was Imperial General Field Sergeant ( Major General ) and Colonel over the Dragoon Regiment of the Dutch national troops "Holstein-Norburg" . Several combinations of the name parts are historical, for example Duke of Holstein-Sonderburg in Nordburg .

Life

origin

His grandfather was Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg (1581–1658). Leopold Ernst was the fourth child of Rudolf Friedrich (1645–1688), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg , and Bibiana, née Countess von Promnitz (1649–1685). The two oldest siblings, Karl and Bibiane Amalia, had died in 1682 and 1683, each at the age of one. Her father and his brother Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg were never involved in the administration of the divided duchy , which had already gone bankrupt in 1669 and was subsequently taken over by the Danish King Friedrich III. drawn in again and given to another branch line, the Plöner .

At the time of his birth, his father was an officer in the service of Wilhelm III. of Orange-Nassau . His mother, who died just six days after his birth, brought the Fürstenau estate in Silesia into the marriage. After his father's death in 1688, Ernst Leopold grew up with his sister Elisabeth Sophie Marie at the court of their guardians, the dukes Anton Ulrich , the husband of their paternal aunt Elisabeth Juliane (1634–1704), and Rudolf August in Wolfenbüttel . The prince's tutor Johann Joachim von Roeber (1662–1732), who came from Glogau and came to Wolfenbüttel in 1694, was there . Roeber rose to the position of feudal councilor in the ducal Brunswick service in 1707 , and to court councilor in 1713 . From 1724 he was imperial commissioner for East Friesland in Aurich , from 1728 with the title of a secret judiciary.

Ernst Leopold's sister Elisabeth Sophie Marie married the son of Duke Johann Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön Adolph August, who died in 1704. In 1710 she entered into a second marriage with their common cousin August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , the son of their former guardian Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel with her aunt Elisabeth Juliane. Another cousin was the ruling count and Reich Chamber Court President Friedrich Ernst zu Solms-Laubach (1671–1723). He was the son of Ernst Leopold's maternal aunt, Benigna Countess von Promnitz, married Countess of Solms-Laubach (1648–1702).

Work and death

Like his late father Rudolf Friedrich (1645–1688), Ernst Leopold von Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg entered military service and spent several years in Brussels . The prince rose to military rank up to the imperial sergeant general . As colonel, he was in command of the dragoon regiment of the Dutch national troops "Holstein-Norburg" , which had entered the imperial service in 1714 . When he fell ill in Brussels, he wanted to visit his sister at her court in Wolfenbüttel. However, he died on the trip to her in Wesel , whereupon his body was transferred to Wolfenbüttel in August 1722 and buried in the princely family crypt there in the Marienkirche on his 37th birthday . After the body of his aunt Elisabeth Juliane was buried in it in 1704, that of his sister was also the 29th and last in 1767 in the hereditary burial under the choir, which was established in 1605.

Even before his death, the Danish King Frederick IV had enfeoffed Frederick Karl , who came from the younger Plön-Norburg line and whose equal descent the king had recognized, with Norburg in 1722. The fact that Ernst Leopold ever resided in Norburg as a duke, as can be read in the Newly Increased Conversations Lexicon of 1782, does not correspond to the facts, because Ernst Leopold and his older Norburg line, which died out with him in the male line, no longer had any inheritance claims had on the Norburger property since the Danish King Friedrich III. after the bankruptcy of the divided duchy in 1669 , he had withdrawn from the last duke of the Norburg line on Norburg, his uncle Johann Bogislaw (1629–1679), and left it to the Plön line after his death.

After the Duke's death, Emperor Charles VI transferred. in September 1722 the dragoon regiment that Ernst Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg had held in the Netherlands, Ferdinand Albrecht II, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1680-1735).

Pedigree

Pedigree of Ernst Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg
Great-great- grandparents	King Christian III (Denmark and Norway) (1503–1559) ⚭ 1525 Princess Dorothea of ​​Saxony-Lauenburg (1511–1571)	Duke Ernst III. (Braunschweig-Grubenhagen) (1518–1567) ⚭ 1547 Princess Margarethe von Pommern-Wolgast (1518–1569), daughter of Georg I (Pomerania)	Prince Joachim Ernst (Anhalt) (1536–1586) ⚭ 1571 Princess Eleonore of Württemberg (1552–1618)	Duke Heinrich Julius (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) (1564–1613) ⚭ 1585 Princess Dorothea of ​​Saxony (1563–1587)	Freiherr Seyfried von Promnitz (1534–1597) ⚭ 1558 Freiin Ursula Schaffgotsch (xxx – 1587)	Baron Sigismund II von Kurzbach zu Militsch and Trachenberg (1547–1579) ⚭ 1568 Princess Helena von Liegnitz (1545–1583), daughter of Friedrich III. (Liegnitz)	Noble Mr. Veit III. von Schönburg-Lichtenstein (1563–1622) ⚭ 1598 Countess Catharina von Eberstein-Massow (1579–1617)	Baron Johann Georg von Schwanberg zu Bor (1548–1617) ⚭ 1593 Elisabeth Colonna von Fels (1575–1616)
Great- grandparents	Duke Johann (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg) (1545–1622) ⚭ 1568 Princess Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1550–1586)		Prince Rudolf (Anhalt-Zerbst) (1576–1621) ⚭ 1605 Princess Dorothea Hedwig of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1587–1609)		Governor of Lower Lusatia Heinrich Anselm von Promnitz (1564–1622) ⚭ 1590 Freiin Sophie von Kurzbach (1570 – xxx)		Noble Herr Georg Ernst von Schönburg-Lichtenstein (1601–1664) ⚭ 1623 Baroness Benigna von Schwanberg (1599–1648)
Grandparents	Duke Friedrich (Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg) (1581–1658) ⚭ 1632 Princess Eleonore of Anhalt-Zerbst (1608–1681)				Governor of Lower Lusatia, Count Sigismund Siegfried von Promnitz (1595–1654) ⚭ 1647 Baroness Catharina Elisabeth von Schönburg-Lichtenstein (1625–1650)
parents	Duke Rudolf Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg (1645–1688) ⚭ 1680 Countess Bibiane von Promnitz (1649–1685)
Ernst Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg (1685–1722)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottfried Ludovici , Universal-Historie, Volume 2, Leipzig 1728, p. 404.
2. ↑ The now living Serene Europe, that is Hoff-Calender, to the year 1719, Frankfurt am Main, p. 37 .
3. ↑ Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: History of the Count and Princely House of Solms . C. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865, p. 361 ( digitized version [accessed February 2, 2014]).
4. ↑ Data sheet Roeber, Johann Joachim von ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (accessed on March 15, 2018) 
5. ^ Regina Stuber, Nora Gädeke and Sabine Sellschopp: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, all writings and letters. Row I: General, historical and political correspondence. Volume 19: September 1700 - May 1701, Berlin, 2005, p. 739 (PDF).
6. ↑ Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: History of the Count and Princely House of Solms . C. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865, p. 365 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Woltereck : Chronikon der Stadt und Vestung Wolffenbüttel , 1747, p. 38.
8. ↑ General State, War, Churches and Scholars Chronicle , Volume 15, 1747, p. 919.
9. ^ The European Fama , Volume 22, 1722, p. 676.
10. ^ Friedrich Görges : The Sanct Blasius Cathedral built by Heinrich the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria [...], Braunschweig 1834, pp. 110–112
11. ↑ Historisch-Politisch-Geographischer Atlas der Welt , 1747, p. 611.
12. ^ Newly augmented Conversations Lexicon , Leipzig 1782, p. 1713.
13. ^ New Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch , 1797, p. 142.
14. ↑ Jakob Christoph Iselin , Newly increased ... Lexicon, 1747, p. 825.
15. ↑ History of the year 1722 , Coburg 1723, p. 332.
16. ↑ History of the year 1723, Coburg 1724, p. 5 f.
17. ^ Karl Limmer, Draft of a documented, pragmatic history of the Lausitz, Ronneburg 1839, p. 231 .