Friedrich Ludwig von Plettenberg

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Friedrich Ludwig von Plettenberg around 1778

Friedrich Ludwig Noël Franz Ignaz Anton Reichsgraf von Plettenberg and Wittem (born June 22, 1745 in Nordkirchen Castle ; † July 4, 1796 ) was canon in Paderborn , Passau and Münster as well as provost of the Alexander monastery in Wildeshausen .

Life

Friedrich Ludwig grew up as the sixth child of Franz Joseph von Plettenberg and his wife Aloysia Steyer von Lamberg (1718–1796, daughter of Prince Franz Anton von Lamberg and his wife Princess Ludovica Friederike Ernestine von Hohenzollern-Hechingen ) together with his older siblings

  • Franz Anton (1735–1766, Canon in Hildesheim),
  • Aloysia ( canoness in Nancy ),
  • Friedrich Clemens August (1742–1771, hereditary marshal and administrator of Nordkirchen, ⚭ 1762 Maria Anna von Galen (1752–1829, daughter of Wilhelm Ferdinand von Galen )), father of Maximilian Friedrich von Plettenberg (1771–1813), heir to Nordkirchen Castle ,
  • Maria (Salentinian in Vienna) and
  • Bernhardine (1743–1779), ⚭ 1762 Prince Dominik Andreas von Kaunitz-Rietberg (1739–1812)

in one of the oldest and most important noble families in Westphalia . This was in 1724 by the Emperor Charles VI. raised to the rank of imperial count .

With the receipt of the tonsure on January 10, 1747 Friedrich Ludwig was prepared for a spiritual life. On March 24, 1763 it came into the possession of a cathedral priest in Passau . From 1768 to 1796 he was also provost in St. Alexander in Wildeshausen . In 1779 he received a cathedral canonical in Paderborn . Due to the death of Canon Johann Matthias von Ascheberg , the prebend in Münster , who had become free, came into the possession of Friedrich Ludwig in 1772 at the instigation of Elector Maximilian Friedrich . In 1790 Plettenberg was ordained a subdeacon .

Others

Friedrich Ludwig was the first canon to enter the lodge in Münster and attended its events - initially regularly, later less often - most recently on March 5, 1785.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kohl : The Diocese of Münster 4.2. The Domstift St. Paulus zu Münster , NF 17.2, published by the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-11-008508-2 .
  • Sven Solterbeck: Blue blood and red numbers. Westphalian nobility in bankruptcy 1700–1815. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-8309-3869-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Wildt, Die Loge zu Münster, its environment and its members around 1780, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Plettenberg, Friedrich Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plettenberg-Lenhausen, Friedrich Ludwig Noël Franz Ignaz Anton von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in Paderborn
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordkirchen Castle
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1796