Georg von Meding

Georg von Meding (* 1601 ; † 1666 ) was a court official of Friedrich the Third and a soldier in the Schleswig-Holstein army.

Life

Meding is the son of Hereditary Land Marshal Wasmod von Meding and his wife Catharina von Gilten.

Apart from the Protestant upbringing, very little is known about Meding's childhood and youth.

From 1631 to 1635 Meding lived at the court of Duke Friedrich III. of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf as court squire. In the following year Meding commanded a Gottorfische company as captain. In 1643 he was promoted to major.

But since 1638 he has been mentioned repeatedly as a chamberlain. As such, he was one of three marshals who took part in the funeral procession at the funeral of Duke Friedrich III on January 31, 1661 . accompanied.

On his great north German trip, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen took Georg von Meding together with his employer Duke Friedrich III at the court in Schleswig . from Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf to the fruitful society . These celebrations took place shortly after September 3, 1642 .

The prince gave Meding the company name of the fertilized and the motto with heather . Buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum ) was given to him as an emblem . Meding's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 391. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission is also recorded there:

Buchweitzen is fertilized with heather in common,

And it must be mist darbey: Drumb, my name is Düngend ';

Fertilized to the fruit that can be with benefit

He who walks cautiously and quietly on the virtue path

Read: he does not stay small either,

When he only grasps the best way

To make oneself fruitful in de beruff 'und Ambt

In it there are always the pious as a whole.

When the last brother Georg von Medings died in 1655, the title of Brunswick-Lüneburg country marshal inherited from his father fell to him.

Georg von Meding died in 1666 at the age of 65.