Friedrich Kettler

Friedrich Kettler (born November 25, 1569 in Mitau ; † August 15 or 17, 1642 ) from the Kettler family was Duke of Courland and Semgallia from 1587 to 1642 with a few interruptions .

Life

Friedrich Kettler was born the son of Duke Gotthard and his wife Anna von Mecklenburg-Güstrow . He was married to Elisabeth Magdalena von Pommern , the daughter of Ernst Ludwig von Pommern-Wolgast . After the death of his father he ruled for his minor brother Wilhelm until 1595 . By the Treaty of Hofzumberge of May 21, 1596, the brothers divided the rule, the lower jurisdiction and the court holding, namely in a Courland area of rule in the west for Wilhelm with Goldingen as the residence city and a Semgallic area of rule in the east for Friedrich with Mitau as the residence city. After the murder of the Nolde brothers, the two spokesmen of the knighthood opposition , in 1615 both dukes were deposed by the overlordship. The innocent Friedrich then received back Semgallia and, according to the Formula Regiminis of 1617, also Kurland in 1618. The new constitutional law of 1617 made the Duchy of Courland an aristocratic republic based on the Polish model . Since then, the duke has been bound to the approval of the knighthood for important decisions.

His performances until his death stretched forward to hold their own against the knighthood, succeeded his since the 1616 succession excluded what has been nephew Jacob enforce and his military weak country in the Swedish-Polish war the neutrality to preserve.

literature

Heinz Mattiesen: Friedrich Kettler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 513 ( digitized version ).
Volker Keller: Duke Friedrich von Kurland (1569–1642). Constitutional, succession and neutrality policy. Marburg 2005.
Friedrich von Kettler: family tables of the Kettler family (Ketteler) . Starke, Görlitz 1900, OCLC 247977607 .

Individual evidence

↑ August Robert Seraphim : The history of the Duchy of Courland (1561-1795) . Franz Kluge, Reval, 2nd, expanded edition 1904, p. 44.
^ The old Livonian areas within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian republic. on zapiskihistoryczne.pl (PDF, p. 33.)
↑ Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . From the Middle Ages to the present . tape 1 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 , p. 7th f . ( books.google.de ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Gotthard Kettler himself and his brother Wilhelm	Duke of Courland and Semigallia 1587–1595 1618–1642	Division of the Duchies of Jacob (co-regent since 1638)
Administration through the knighthood emerged from the division	Duke of Semgallia 1595–1616 1617–1618	Administration by the knighthood taken up in the united duchy

personal data
SURNAME	Kettler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedrich Kettler, Duke of Courland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Courland
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mitau
DATE OF DEATH	August 15, 1642 or August 17, 1642

[1] August Robert Seraphim : The history of the Duchy of Courland (1561-1795) . Franz Kluge, Reval, 2nd, expanded edition 1904, p. 44.

[2] The old Livonian areas within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian republic. on zapiskihistoryczne.pl (PDF, p. 33.)

[3] Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . From the Middle Ages to the present . tape 1 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 , p. 7th f . ( books.google.de ).