Friedrich Carl von Pöllnitz

Friedrich Carl von Pöllnitz (born May 4, 1682 in Zeitz ; † February 14, 1760 at Gut Benndorf ) was the Saxon-Polish high court marshal and lover of Duchess Henriette Charlotte of Saxony-Merseburg , as well as cathedral dean of Meißen.

Pöllnitz , who came from an aristocratic family in Thuringia, was the son of the Naumburg cathedral provost and later Electoral Saxon secret council and chancellor Ludwig Ernst von Pöllnitz . From 1700 he studied law at the University of Tübingen . Since 1704 he was enfeoffed as the new landlord with the manor Benndorf. In 1730 at the latest, he became cathedral dean of the cathedral monastery in Meißen .

Around 1709 he was appointed chamberlain and stable master of Alexej Petrovich in Russia .

He was also Oberhofmarschall of Henriette Charlotte von Nassau-Idstein , who became his lover and had a child from him. The daughter Friederike Ulrike (* / † June 23, 1720 in Merseburg) died shortly after birth.

Pöllnitz married on December 14, 1727 in Altenburg Johanna Eleonore Caroline von Ponickau (born March 12, 1709 in Pomßen ; † June 9, 1772 at Gut Benndorf), the daughter of Johann Christoph von Ponickau (1652-1726) and Eleonora Elisabeth von Amber (1676-1728). He had a daughter, Sophia Elisabeth Carolina , who later married Rudolph Dietrich von Schönberg .

literature

• Christian Friedrich Jacobi, Gottlob Friedrich Krebel: European genealogical manual . Celebs 1756.
• Manfred Wilde : Between adultery and reasons of state , in: Manfred Wilde / M. Schattkowsky (ed.), Saxony and his secondary genetics, Leipzig 2010, pp. 257–287.
• Johann Gottfried Biedermann, Gender Register of the Praiseworthy Knights in Voigtlande , p. 192, digitized

Web links

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