Ernst von Hattenbach

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Ernst von Hattenbach , born as Ernst Reinhard (* December 17, 1617 in Hachborn , † April 1, 1694 in Rodenberg ) was an illegitimate offspring of the Landgrave of Hesse and Hesse-Kassel bailiff.

origin

His father was Otto von Hessen-Kassel (December 24, 1594 - August 7, 1617), the eldest son of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, who died early . Otto, who married Katharina Ursula von Baden-Durlach on August 24, 1613 , was entrusted in January 1614 by Landgrave Moritz with the governorship of the Upper Duchy , the "Lands an der Lahn", in Marburg . His wife died on February 15, 1615, and before Otto married Agnes Magdalena von Anhalt-Dessau for the second time on June 14, 1617 , he probably led a very dissolute life. Ernst Reinhard, born six months after Otto's second wedding and four months after his death in Hachborn near Marburg, is visible evidence of this . His mother probably came - either as a family member or as a servant - from the so-called Caulischer Hof in Hachborn, then inhabited by Conrad Reinhard from Gießen , and the boy had this surname.

Life

His landgrave relatives had the boy brought to Kassel , where he was confirmed at Pentecost 1629 and enrolled on April 2, 1636 at the University of Kassel , which was housed in the later Renthof from 1633 to 1653 . It is not clear whether he then entered the landgrave's administrative service or became a soldier.

Soon after the lords of Hattenbach died out in the male line in 1626 or when he reached the age of majority, Ernst Reinhard received the vacant title of the lords of Hattenbach, either from his grandfather Moritz or from his successor as Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, his uncle Wilhelm V awarded; Since then his name has been Ernst von Hattenbach (or Ernst Reinhard von Hattenbach).

In 1654 he was taken over by his cousin, Landgrave Wilhelm VI. , appointed chamberlain , with the simultaneous transfer of the fiefdom of the castle and village of Hattenbach along with considerable accessories to goods in and around Frielingen . This fiefdom had fallen back after the first noble family of Hattenbach died out in 1626 , and from 1626 it was owned by Siegmund von Peterswald , Landgrave Hessian councilor and bailiff in Hersfeld , Friedewald and Vacha , and Landgrave Wilhelm VI. had bought it back. From 1676 Ernst von Hattenbach also owned fiefdoms belonging to the lords of Schetzel , who died out in that year , d. H. two thirds of the castle and village of Merzhausen near Ziegenhain and the corridor of the neighboring Fischbach desert .

1664 appointed him Landgraf Wilhelm's widow, for her minor son Karl vormundschaftlich ruling Hedwig Sophie , the Hesse-Kassel Drost or bailiff to Rodenberg in the county of Schaumburg , and an office he held until his death in 1694 stopped.

In Hattenbach he had a three-storey mansion built in 1713–1715 by his son Karl , the Hattenbach Castle, using the late Romanesque remains of the castle from the 13th century (according to the date above the portal) .

Marriage and offspring

Ernst von Hattenbach married Anna Katharina von Hake (* 1650, † after April 14, 1707), daughter of Daniel von Hake zu Klein-Machnow and Brigitte von , on July 27, 1669 in Kassel, a lady-in-waiting of the landgrave mother Hedwig Sophie the great . From this marriage came the daughter Charlotte Sophie (born June 26, 1670 in Rodenberg; † 1737), who married the Danish privy councilor Friedrich von Gram (1664–1741), and the son Karl († 1733), who served in the Hesse-Kassel military service rose to lieutenant general and governor of Kassel and finally von Ziegenhain ; he was married to Katharina von Hoff.

With Karl's son and Ernst's grandson Johann Moritz von Hattenbach, the second noble family von Hattenbach in the male line, founded by Ernst von Hattenbach, died out in 1787.

literature

  • Carl Knetsch: The House of Brabant: Genealogy of the dukes of Brabant and the landgraves of Hesse. Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt, 1917/1931, p. 120 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph von Rommel: Modern History of Hessen, Second Volume, Kassel, 1837, p. 332 fn. 60.
  2. ↑ A German officer by the name of Hattenbach was declared a company commander in Swedish service in the 1650s ( Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung: Swedish ranking list of German officers 1650–1660. )
  3. ^ A b Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: Modern history of Hessen, first volume, Kassel, 1835, pp. 405-406.
  4. ↑ Peter Unbelief: The Hachborn House. A lost castle in the Marburger Land ; in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), Volume 106, 2001, pp. 59–85 (here: 82).
  5. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse. Fischer, Kassel, 1842, p. 520.
  6. ↑ Buried in the church in Hattenbach.
  7. ↑ CPE von Hanstein (ed.): Documented history of the family of von Hanstein in the Eichsfeld, Second Part, Bohné, Kassel, 1857, p. 639.
personal data
SURNAME Hattenbach, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhard, Ernst (maiden name); Hattenbach, Ernst Reinhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessen-Kassel bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachborn
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1694
Place of death Rodenberg