Georg von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld

Georg von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld (1504–1564) was a Hessian nobleman and landgrave-Hessian and ducal-Saxon councilor and diplomat.

origin

Georg was the third, youngest and only surviving son of the father of the temporary Hessian court master Ludwig I von Boyneburg (1466–1537) from his first marriage with Mathilde (Mechthildis) von Herda zu Brandenburg (around 1469; † after 1508). , Daughter of Raban von Herda zu Brandenburg, Hessian councilor and governor in Kassel, and Katharina von Hutten . As a result of this marriage, in 1523 the father acquired most of his father-in-law's family and Fulda fiefs , the Lengsfeld estate , which fell to Georg after Ludwig's death. The younger half-brother Ludwig (III.) Von Boyneburg (1535–1568) from Ludwig's second marriage to Elisabeth von Meysenbug , daughter of Wilhelm von Meysenbug and Gertrud Eckbrecht von Dürkheim , whose guardian Georg served until he came of age, inherited the Hessian possessions his father's with the Altenburg near Felsberg .

Life

Georg studied from 1517 at the university in Wittenberg , where Martin Luther taught from 1513 and Philipp Melanchthon from 1518 . He then moved to the University of Padua , and finally to the University of Marburg , where he became Doctor of Laws doctorate was.

He was counsel of the Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse, who from 1509 to 1514 together with him in the household of these years Landgraviate Hesse had been brought up as a guardianship Regent managing father, and later the Electors of Saxony , but it was through the tutelage of his Half-brother Ludwig (III.) and his nephew Ludwig (1518–1573), who were still in infancy, and the administration of their own and their own extensive estates were too stressed to be able to exercise a permanent and permanent court position. So he let z. B. in 1540 rebuild the east wing of the Palas on the Altenburg, which was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 by a Franconian peasant troop.

However, he repeatedly served his two sovereigns in important diplomatic missions. So he was often in matters of the Schmalkaldic League on trips, including with Emperor Charles V and on various diets . In May 1538 he traveled as envoy of Landgrave Philip, together with Franz Burchart , Bernhard von Mila and the theologian Friedrich Myconius as envoy of the Saxon Elector Johann Friedrich , at the invitation of King Henry VIII to England to establish a possible alliance between England and to negotiate with the Schmalkaldic League. The negotiations, also with Henry VIII's most important advisor, Lord Keeper of the Seal and Vicar General Thomas Cromwell , dragged on until the end of September and ultimately ended unsuccessfully because Henry VIII could not bring himself to accept the Augsburg denomination . Georg von Boyneburg is mentioned in negotiations with the emperor until 1548. In 1548, Emperor Charles V granted him the right to hold three annual fairs for his faithful service to his city of Lengsfeld . Then Georg had the streets of the city paved at his own expense that same year.

Georg von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld died unmarried in 1564. His property was distributed to his nephews after long disputes over inheritance.

Footnotes

1. ^ Rolf Leimbach, Rolf Schlegel: The school is on fire: Lengsfelder Stories II. BoD, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7386-0388-0 , pp. 38–39. (books.google.de)
2. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners. Second volume, Luckhard, Kassel 1833, p. 195. (books.google.de)
3. ↑ Son of his brother Ludwig (II.) Von Boyneburg, who died in 1529.
4. ^ Henry VIII, the Reign: Timeline 1538
5. ^ Henry VIII, the Reign: Part 33
6. ^ Henry VIII, the Reign: Part 34

literature

• Rolf Leimbach, Rolf Schlegel: Port city on the Felda: Lengsfeld stories III . BoD, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-3756-4 , pp. 26-28. (books.google.de)