Fabian I. von Zehmen

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Fabian I. von Zehmen (also Cema, Czema, Czemen or de Cemin) (* around 1500, † 1580 ), was voivode of Pomerania and Marienburg , castellan of Danzig , Polish civil servant, Kgl. Ambassador, deputy at various diets and advocate of German homeland law in Prussia. Royal share under the Polish crown and German baron .

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Gravestone Fabian v. Zehmen, 1580 in Pr. Stargard
Light gray: Ducal Prussia
Colored: Royal Prussia with its voivodships in personal union with the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
The Marienburg

Fabian I. von Zehmen studied in Cracow and in 1524 at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt . After further training he entered the Kgl. Service and became Starost on Stargard . Like his brother, he was often called Kgl. Ambassador to the Prussian. Parliament sent. After that he was in Tuchel and Graudenz until 1568 . As early as 1531 he had obtained the dignity of chamberlain in Pomerania . The occupation of these posts is important because the Duchy of Prussia wanted to assign its offices to locals, while the Kingdom of Poland to Poland. He was also deployed to embassies outside the country, e.g. B. as the representative of the king at the wedding of Duke George II of Liegnitz . From time to time he was able to help out Duke Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach with loans and in 1539 received the village of Geißeln in the Preuschmark office with Magdeburg law and large and small jurisdictions. In 1543 he and his brother were invited to the Krakow wedding festivities, traveled to the king in 1547 to present the country's complaints, and attended the Diet in Petrikau with Achatius von Zehmen in 1548 . In the meantime he held the position of sub-chamberlain of Marienburg in 1546, of Culm in 1548, and in 1550 advocated the Prussian freedoms of the king when the Prussian duke was enfeoffed. In 1552 he was castellan of Danzig and in 1556 voivode of Pomerania. In the winter of 1562 he commanded the Kgl. Court camp in Vilnius. In matters of faith and the state he always acted hand in hand with his brother and was often in the same spirit with him. At the Marienburger Landtag on October 10, 1566, he was sworn in as the successor of his brother Achatius as Voivode of Marienburg . He visited the Reichstag of Lublin in 1566 together with his nephew Fabian II. There, Fabian I von Zehmen, together with the Kulmischen voivode, asked in a public session to be released from office or to resign because they could not reconcile it with their conscience the liberal Prussian state rights should be shortened. On the Polish side, Prussia, which according to the treaty was only in personal union with the king, wanted to oblige to attend the Reichstag and to equate it with the usual Polish parts of the country. You stayed in office, but the Polish endeavors also remained constant, despite protests from Fabian and others. After the death of King Sigismund II August in 1572, he campaigned for the Austrian Archduke in the 1573 election. Heinrich von Anjou was elected, but the Zehmen were held in high regard by the German Kaiser. In 1576 Fabian I von Zehmen was awarded the status of a German imperial baron along with the sons of Achatius .

family

His siblings were Achatius von Zehmen (voivode of Marienburg), Martin (1531 administrator of Culm), Stanislaus (1524 royal Polish secretary), Georg (1526 official of Danzig) and Dorothea (married to Christoph von Rembow). Fabian vZ comes from the Meissnian-Saxon family of von Zehmen with the parent company of the same name in Zehmen near Leipzig . His parents were Nikolaus von Zehmen from the Muckern manor in Saxony and Dorothea von Baysen , widow of Hans von Rabe on Schettnienen and Lichtenfelde. Nikolaus VZ came to Prussia with the Teutonic Order and became Burgrave of Stuhm and Christburg in 1492 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Schmid : The preservation of monuments in the province of West Prussia in the years 1918 and 1919 - 16. Report to the Provincial Commission for the Administration of the West Prussian Private Museums in Danzig , publishing house of the Provincial Association of West Prussia. Kommissionsverlag AW Kafermann GmbH, Danzig 1920, p. 16 Grave slab v. Draw on Eblaska Biblioteka
  2. ^ Hanns-Moritz v. Zehmen: Genealogical reports about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, p. 22
  3. ↑ Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., p. 14
  4. ↑ Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., pp. 15 and 16
  5. ^ Hanns-Moritz v. Zehmen: Genealogical reports about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Zehmen, Fabian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehmen, Fabian I. von; Czema; Cema; Czemen; de Cemin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish civil servant, Kgl. Ambassador, deputy on various diets
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
DATE OF DEATH 1580