Georg von Wangenheim (steward)

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Georg von Wangenheim zu Tüngeda (* October 2, 1606 in Gotha ; † March 20, 1660 ibid) was a Thuringian-Saxon court official.

origin

Georg von Wangenheim came from the Thuringian noble family von Wangenheim . His father was Georg Melchior von Wangenheim (1580–1631), knightly chief tax collector, his mother Anna Maria geb. by Hoym (1589-1606).

Life

Entry in the register of 12 June 1630 in Paris

1630 he was in Paris in the pedigree of the later equerry Hans Heinrich head of Blackrock (1604-after 1654) in Sondershausen. Georg von Wangenheim was stable master of the first Duke of Saxe-Gotha , Ernst I the Pious (1601–1675) from 1640–1652 , and as successor of Georg von Kötschau from 1652–1659 also his steward .

According to the State Historical Information System of Hesse / Hessian Biography, he was also envoy from Hesse-Darmstadt to the Nuremberg Execution Day in 1649/50 ; this does not seem plausible, but it can be explained by his marriage to the daughter of the Hesse-Darmstadt war commissioner Georg Bernhard von Hertingshausen, who died in 1646 .

Marriage and offspring

Georg von Wangenheim was married to Agnes von Hertingshausen († 1691), daughter of the Hesse-Darmstadt Secret War Commissioner Georg Bernhard von Hertingshausen († 1646) and his wife Anna von Bredow († 1651).

The marriage had a son and two daughters:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ August Beck: Ernst the Pious, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg. Part 1, Hermann Böhlau, Weimar, 1865, p. 340
  2. ↑ Wangenheim, Georg von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ portrait
  4. ↑ portrait

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personal data
SURNAME Wangenheim, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Steward in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1606
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1660
Place of death Gotha