Friedrich August Christian von Linsingen

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Friedrich August Christian von Linsingen (born December 31, 1721 ; † February 12, 1775 in Zerbst ) was a permanent Zerbstian Privy Councilor , Chancellor, Chamber and Consistorial President as well as heir, feudal and court lord of several manors, including Mönchshof .

Life

Mönchshof Castle near Gotha

He came from the Eichsfeld line of the von Linsingen family and was the eldest son of the manor Dietrich Ernst Heinrich von Linsingen, who died in 1762 at Mönchshof Castle in Siebleben .

In 1745 Friedrich August Christian von Linsingen wrote an eight-page tribute to the wedding of Catherine with the future Russian tsar as an Anhalt court squire and government assessor.

At the court of the royal seat of Zerbst, he rose to become a real secret councilor, chancellor, chamber and consistorial president.

His surviving four younger brothers met six years after his death on June 29, 1781 in Mönchhof, Saxony-Gotha, to compare the inheritance of the property in the Goldenen Aue and Eichsfeld owned by the von Linsingen family .

family

Friedrich August Christian von Linsingen was married twice. In 1754 he married Elisabeth Wilhelmine von Milkau and in 1761 Caroline, born in Rieben . Six children survived him.

literature

  • Adolph Ernst von Linsingen : Gender sequence of the ancient knight and monastery-like family von Linsingen , Erfurt, 1774.
  • Ludwig Carl Freyherr von Linsingen : Authentic proof of the agnation beyder, the Hessians who died out in 1721 and the branches of the knightly and monastery-like Freyherr family von Linsingen , Heiligenstadt 1792, which flourished in Eichsfelde .
  • Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: On the history of the lords, barons and counts of Linsingen zu Linsingen, Jesberg, Asphe etc. in Hesse, to Birkenfelde, Udra, Rengelrode, Burgwalde etc. in Eichsfeld, to Ricklingen, Adenstedt, Gestorf etc. in Hanover as well in Holland, France, England, South Africa and Brazil (= series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Jesberg eV Volume 1), 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Slavica Gottingensia , No. 3609
  2. ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news ... , Vol. 14, 1775, p. 481.
personal data
SURNAME Linsingen, Friedrich August Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anhalt-Zerbstischer Privy Councilor, Chancellor, President of the Chamber and Consistory, and the owner of the manor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1721
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1775
Place of death Zerbst / Anhalt