Friedrich Ernst zu Innhausen and Knyphausen

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Friedrich Ernst Freiherr von Cniphausen, engraving by Martin Bernigeroth (1728)

Friedrich Ernst Freiherr zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (* August 11, 1678 - April 4, 1731 ) was a Prussian chamberlain under King Friedrich Wilhelm I.

Life

He was president of the Brandenburg-African Company and commander of the naval battalion . He was also the governor of Fürstenwalde and heir to the glory of Jennelt and Visquard, and at times Minister- Resident of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire . In 1711 he was Envoy Extraordinary in Copenhagen . Before that he was ambassador to various European courts: Spain, in Vienna with Emperor Karl VI. , France, Russia and Denmark.

family

His parents were the Prussian privy councilor Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1641–1698) and his wife Hedwig Orianna von Frydag (1648–1694).

He was married to Charlotte von Ilgen (1702–1751), daughter of Minister Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen . The couple had the following children:

  • Dodo Heinrich (July 2, 1717 - July 16, 1719)
  • Tido Friedrich (born January 28, 1719; † 1780) went to Batavia
  • Oriana Luise (March 20, 1721; † October 7, 1791) ⚭ Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (* May 24, 1711; † December 27, 1756)
  • Hedwig Charlotte (* May 20, 1722; † November 15, 1804) ⚭ George Friedrich von Broecker (* 1727; † January 31, 1791) President of the Court of Cöslin
  • Hyma Maria (* May 15, 1723; † May 15, 1796) ⚭ 1752 Count Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg (1725–1795)
  • Eva Henriette (* July 24, 1725; † January 14, 1776) ⚭ 1752 Alexander Rudolf von Rothenburg (* September 22, 1729; † 1791)
  • Anna Friederike (born September 10, 1727)
  • Dodo Heinrich (* August 3, 1729 - May 31, 1789) Prussian envoy in Paris ⚭ Sophie Friederike von Wreech (* May 27, 1732 - June 19, 1784) daughter of Adam Friedrich von Wreech (1689–1746)
  • Friedrich Ernst (born March 28, 1731 - † May 30, 1788)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanislaus Grabowski: Familiar history of the Prussian court and state since the end of the Thirty Years' War. P. 73. (digitized version)
  2. ↑ Five letters from a free merchant in Bengal. (Digitized version)
  3. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli: Life of great heroes of the present war. Volume 4, p. 286. (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Innhausen and Knyphausen, Friedrich Ernst to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Innhausen and Knyphausen, Friedrich Ernst Freiherr too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian envoy and later minister
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1678
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1731