Felix Friedrich von Flemming

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Felix Friedrich von Flemming , from 1721 Count von Flemming (* 1661 ; † August 20, 1738 ) was judge at the Wismar Tribunal , Prussian Privy Council and Hereditary Land Marshal in Pomerania .

Life

He came from the noble family von Flemming and was a son of Felix Paris von Flemming, Oberstwachtmeister in Pomerania, and Catharina Sophie von Schwerin .

Grave slab of Felix Friedrich von Flemming in the church in Iven

Felix Friedrich von Flemming studied five years at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt and graduated with a disputation , which was published in 1688. He received a position as a trainee lawyer at the Greifswald court , but made a trip to France and the Netherlands. In 1695 he became Commissarius for the Anklamschen District in Swedish Pomerania and State Deputy. In 1705 he was appointed as assessor at the Wismar Tribunal. In 1711 he gave up his post after six years of service and retired to his estates in Swedish Pomerania. When this part of the country fell to Prussia after the Great Northern War , he entered Prussian service. 1721 was him by Emperor Karl VI. conferred the hereditary title of imperial count . In 1722 he was appointed hereditary marshal of Western Pomerania and the Principality of Cammin .

Felix Friedrich von Flemming was seated in a castle and a palace at Martentin and Böck as well as a lord at Zebbin , Ribbertow and Drammin in Western Pomerania. In 1697 he was enfeoffed with the estate Iven in Western Pomerania , which had been a Schwerin fief until then.

He died in 1738 and was buried in Iven Church . There is his epitaph embedded in the north wall of the church .

family

Felix Friedrich von Flemming was married to Dorothea Sophie von Flemming (* 1675; † May 5, 1754), a daughter of Franz Ludwig von Flemming on Ribbertow. Her children included:

Fonts

  • Disp. iur. de testamentis vasallorum. Zeitler, Frankfurt / Oder 1688.

literature

  • Nils Jörn : The judicial staff at the tribunal. In: Nils Jörn, Bernhard Diestelkamp, ​​Kjell Å Modéer (eds.): Integration through law. The Wismar Tribunal (1653–1806). Böhlau, Cologne Weimar 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-18203-8 , p. 260.
  • Jakob Christoph Iselin , Johannes Buxtorf , Jakob Christoph Beck : Newly increased historical and geographic general Lexicon. 3rd edition, 3rd part, Johannes Christ, Basel 1742, p. 493 ( Google Books ).
  • Gottlob Friedrich Krebel, Gottlieb Schumann, M. Gottlieb Schumann's genealogical handbook , p.170
  • Genealogical realm and state manual for the year 1805 , part 1, p.595

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. In the NDB, the year of birth is given as 1739, in contrast to older literature and its epitaph.
  2. ^ A b Günter Meinert:  Flemming, Carl Georg Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 240 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Vol. 1, Dietze, Anklam 1865, p. 317 ( Google Books ).
  4. ^ Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch for the year 1802. Part 1, Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1802, p. 567 ( Google Books )