Georg Gustav (Palatinate-Veldenz)

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Count Palatine Georg Gustav von Veldenz

Georg Gustav von Pfalz-Veldenz (born February 6, 1564 on the Remigiusburg ; † June 3, 1634 ) was Count Palatine of Veldenz from 1592 to 1634 .

Life

Georg Gustav was the eldest son of Count Palatine Georg Johann I von Veldenz (1543–1592) from his marriage to Anna Maria (1545–1610), daughter of King Gustav I Wasa of Sweden. Georg Gustav studied at the University of Tübingen.

Georg Gustav took over a bankrupt state from his father, which he shared with his brothers in 1592. Georg Gustav kept Veldenz and Lauterecken , his brother Johann August received Lützelstein , Ludwig Philipp and Georg Johann II received Guttenberg together , the latter took over Lützelstein after the death of his brother. Like his father , Georg Gustav was a Lutheran , but it was Georg Gustav who signed the formula of the Agreement .

At the beginning of the 17th century, Georg Gustav redesigned the Benedictine priory of Lixheim into an exile town , which became a settlement for Reformed religious refugees. In 1600 Georg Gustav concluded a settlement with the Duchy of Zweibrücken, as a result of which his stake in Alsenz was assigned to the Zweibrückers.

During the Thirty Years War , Spanish troops drove Georg Gustav out of his country, which Archbishop Philipp Christoph von Trier took possession of. Georg Gustav's son got the land back in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Georg Gustav, like his mother, his second wife and daughter of the same name Maria Elisabetha, was buried in the provost church of St. Remigius on the Remigiusberg .

Marriages and offspring

Georg Gustav married Elisabeth (1548–1592), daughter of Duke Christoph von Württemberg and widow of Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg, on May 31, 1586 in Stuttgart . The marriage remained childless.

His second wife was Marie Elisabeth (1581–1637) in Zweibrücken on May 17, 1601 , daughter of Count Palatine Johann I von Zweibrücken , with whom he had the following children:

⚭ 1617 Duke Heinrich Wenzel von Münsterberg (1592–1639)
  • Johann Friedrich (1604–1632)
  • Georg Gustav (* / † 1605)
  • Elisabeth (1607-1608)
  • Karl Ludwig (1609–1631), fallen
  • Wolfgang Wilhelm (1610–1611)
  • Sophie Sibylle (1612-1616)
  • Marie Elisabeth (1616–1649), canoness at Herford Abbey
  • Marie Amalie (1621-1622)
  • Magdalene Sophie (1622-1691)
  • Leopold Ludwig (1625–1694), Count Palatine of Veldenz
⚭ 1648 Countess Agathe von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1632–1681)

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Joachim: Collection of German coins of the middle and modern times , 1755, p. 963 digitized
  • Emil Friedrich Heinrich Medicus: History of the Protestant Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria this side of the Rh: after printed u. partly also ungedr. Sources initially for practical spiritual. u. other educated readers edit Supplement volume, Volume 2, Deichert, 1865, p. 37
  • Georg Bärsch: The Moselle stream from Metz to Coblenz , C. Troschel, 1841, p. 278 f. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Greule , Wolfgang Haubrichs : Studies on literature, language and history in Europe , Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2008, p. 324
  2. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkrises , Volume 3, FC Neidhard, 1837, p. 309
  3. ↑ Text of the four coffin inscriptions: Daniel Hinkelmann: High princes used to rest in the crypt on Remigiusberg . In: Westricher Heimatblätter, Volume 7, Kusel 1976, pp. 22-25
  4. ↑ For Elisabeth and marriage, see Gerhard Raff : Hie gut Wirtemberg alleweg. Volume 1: The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the Founder to Duke Ludwig. 6th edition. Landhege, Schwaigern 2014, ISBN 978-3-943066-34-0 , pp. 558-562.
personal data
SURNAME Georg Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfalz-Veldenz, Georg Gustav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Veldenz
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Remigiusburg
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1634
Place of death Remigiusburg