Fabian III. from Zehmen

Fabian III. von Zehmen (also Cema, Czema, Czemen or de Cemin) (* around 1575 , † 1636 ) was a German baron and civil servant in West Prussia . He was sub-chamberlain of Marienburg , castellan of Danzig and Starost von Stuhm .

Live and act

Fabian III. von Zehmen went to the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau and studied at the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt. In 1595 he became honoris causa Rector. He studied together with Joh. Zimmermann who later became mayor of Thorn. He then went on an educational trip, in particular to Italy and to the Imperial Court in Vienna. When he returned to Poland, he entered the Royal Polish Service, was appointed Cubicularius (lat. "Chamberlain", here Royal Servant / Official) of the King and from the latter with assignments to the Prussian. Landtag entrusted, z. B. to Marienburger on January 16, 1601. For his meritorious participation in the Livonian expedition he received the Hauptmannschaft / Starostei von Stuhm in recognition . In 1621 he became chamberlain of Marienburg and in 1626 rose to castellan of Kulm . In 1608 he bought half of Powunden in Prussia, Brandenburg , and also owned the old town, flagella, etc. Fabian III. von Zehmen was in the war commission for the protection of the "inmates against the soldiers". He was also sent by the Polish king to the Königsberg state parliament to persuade the Duchy of Prussia to provide aid against the Swedes. Since the landscapes in which Fabian's possessions were located were repeatedly badly taken by the Swedes, the estates in the Graudenz Landtag in June and December 1632 gave their representatives the task of seeking compensation for him from both the King and the Polish Reichstag. Fabian III. von Zehmen was buried on July 17, 1636 in the then still Lutheran St. Mary's Church in Thorn .

family

His family comes from the Meissnian - Saxon nobility of the von Zehmen family and branched out via the Muckern manor in Saxony to Prussia, a royal part and the Duchy of Prussia . His parents were Fabian II von Zehmen (1540–1605) and Catharina von Renglin-Piesinska. In 1595 he married the daughter of the voivode Georg von Sendomir and in 1611 Katharina von Lesno Leszezynski. Together they had a daughter Anna (1599–1673) who married Sigismund Freiherrn von Güldenstern , Starost auf Stuhm, at the town hall in Thorn . His sister Katharine married in 1604 with Nicolaus Count von Ostrorog, castellan of Bełk (Warmia), died 1617 and then with Johann von Farensbach , castellan of Livonia .

literature

Light gray: Ducal Prussia
Colored: Royal Prussia with its voivodships in personal union with the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

Richard Fischer: Achatius von Zehmen, Woywode von Marienburg . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association . Vol. 36 (1897), pp. 1-167.
Hanns-Moritz von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meißnian nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906.
Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884.
Almut Bues: The notes of the Dominican Martin Gruneweg (1562-ca. 1618) about his family in Danzig, his trade trips in Eastern Europe and his monastic life in Poland. Harrassowitz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05269-6 .

Web links

Jan Papiór, Barbara Rowińska-Januszewska: Polish-German interactions in the second millennium , Bromberg 2001, ISBN 83-7096-416-8 . P. 141, explanation of the position of Fabian III. vZ ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
Christian Gottlieb von Friesen, Kgl. Polish Court Councilor: Contributions to the history of the Reformation in Poland and Lithuania , Volume 2, Issue 1, publisher Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1786
Gottfried Lengnich: History of the Prussian lands royally. Polish Antheils, since 1606. Except for the death of King Sigismund III. , Publisher Thomas Johann Schreiber, 1727
Ostpreußen.net , von Zehmen as the owner of the Powunden estate

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., pp. 26 and 27
↑ Bernhard Schmid : The architectural and art monuments of the province of West Prussia. 13: District of Stuhm , publishing house of the Provincial Association of West Prussia. Kommissionsverlag AW Kafermann GmbH, Danzig 1909, p. 346 (120) v. Zehmen became tenutarius (owner) of Stuhm in 1606, and on December 15, 1635 the estate was leased to him as a long-term lease at Regesta Imperii Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
^ Hanns-Moritz v. Zehmen: Genealogical reports about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, p. 26
↑ v. Zehmen as owner of the manor house Powunden, p. 6
↑ Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., p. 27

personal data
SURNAME	Zehmen, Fabian III. from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Czema; Take, from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian civil servant in the Prussian Royal Share and in the Duchy of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1575
DATE OF DEATH	1636
Place of death	Thorn

[1] Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., pp. 26 and 27

[2] Bernhard Schmid : The architectural and art monuments of the province of West Prussia. 13: District of Stuhm , publishing house of the Provincial Association of West Prussia. Kommissionsverlag AW Kafermann GmbH, Danzig 1909, p. 346 (120) v. Zehmen became tenutarius (owner) of Stuhm in 1606, and on December 15, 1635 the estate was leased to him as a long-term lease at Regesta Imperii Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz

[3] Hanns-Moritz v. Zehmen: Genealogical reports about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, p. 26

[4] v. Zehmen as owner of the manor house Powunden, p. 6

[5] Reinhard von Flanss: The von Zehmen (Czema) in West Prussia. 1884., p. 27