Franz Ico from Frydag

Baron Franz Ico von Frydag (born February 9, 1606 at Gödens Castle near Wilhelmshaven ; † September 12, 1652 ibid) was a German military and diplomat at the time of the Thirty Years War.

Life

Franz Ico von Frydag was the son of Baron Haro von Frydag and his wife Catharina von Innhausen and Knyphausen . At the age of 15, Frydag enrolled at the University of Franeker on January 7, 1621 .

In May 1634, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen visited the Free City of Hamburg . On the occasion of this visit, Frydag was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society together with Baron Enno Wilhelm Innhausen and Kniphausen . The prince gave Frydag the company name of the purifying and unclean flowered as a motto . Frydag women's hair ( Adiantum capillus veneris L. ) was used as an emblem. In the Koethener society register there is Frydag's entry under the number 239. There the rhyme law is also recorded, with which he thanked for his admission:

A herb is called Frawen hair tends to purify blood In
people's body through which he does not go To fail
The name of a man who is drumb was given to me
Because pure wants to be true virtue goes.
Although now in the world can become completely pure mannite,
Since sin is attached to work, words, and
gestures, the spirit prepares us here for the new world, and
finally it speaks when it travels to itself.

Until the Peace of Prague in 1635, Frydag fought as a colonel on the Swedish-Lutheran side. He then retired to his homeland for a few years and married the Catholic Freiin Margarethe Elisabeth von Westerholt in 1639 . With her he had eight children who were raised in the Catholic faith after he had also converted himself. The Catholic Church in Neustadtgödens reminds of this to this day.

1646 he was by Emperor Ferdinand III. raised to the status of imperial baron and worked in 1648 as the imperial envoy in Münster . He was actively supported by his relative, Baron Enno Wilhelm von Innhausen and Kniphausen . In 1653 Frydag worked again with him at the Reichstag in Regensburg .

Baron Franz Ico von Frydag died on September 12, 1652 at Gödens Castle near Wilhelmshaven at the age of 46.

family

He was married to Margreta Elisabeth, née von Westerholt . The couple had the following children:

• Haro Burchard (* 1640; † 1692 in Hamburg), Imperial Privy Councilor, Lord von Gödens
• Juliana Katharina ⚭ Baron Johann von Büren ⚭ Count von Duras († 1699)
• Franz Heinrich (* 1643; † 1694 in Berlin) Imperial envoy, Lord von Gödens ∞ Sophia Elisabeth von Aldenburg, Countess von Aldenburg (1661–1730)
• Karl Philipp (1644–1698), Knight of Malta, Grand Prior of Hungary
• Iko Wilhelm (1645–1711), Jesuit in Maastricht
• Hedwig Oriana (1648–1694) ∞ Dodo of Inn- and Knyphausen
• Maximilian (died young)
• Johann Ernst (1649–1703) Rector of the Jesuit College in Halle Brabant

literature

• Alexander von Werdum: Root register of the chiefs of Gödens, Oldersum, Werdum and others . In: Diedrich Möhlmann (ed.): Hironimus Grestius's Reimchronik von Harlingerland, together with Alexander von Werdum's genealogy of the chiefs of Gödens & c., And SE Jhering's description of the glory of Gödens / for the first time from the manuscripts . Hergeröder, Stade and Harburg 1845, pp. 33–53, here p. 41 ( digitized version ).
• Albert von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld: Art. Frydag . In: Johann Samuel Publication : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , Vol. 51, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850, pp. 475–478 ( digitized version of the Göttingen State and University Library).