Gottlieb Ludwig von Werpup

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Gottlieb Ludwig von Werpup (born May 8, 1707 ; † July 26, 1768 in Hanover ) was an electoral Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall , the last of the noble family of Werpup and heir of Oldendorp , Zermin and Wülfel .

Life

Gottlieb Ludwig von Werpup was born in 1707 as the son of the war council and land drover Georg Ernst von Werpup and his wife Eleonore Marie Bernstorff, who came from the von Bernstorff family.

In 1735 von Werpup entered the service of his sovereign , who, due to the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover as King George II of Great Britain and Ireland , resided primarily in London .

On August 2, 1737, von Werpup acquired civil rights and brewing rights in the old town of Hanover.

On May 31, 1739 von Werpup married Antoinette Eleonora von Alvensleben, a daughter of the Privy Councilor of State Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben, in the castle church of the Leineschloss . A year later, according to the institution's church book , the couple had their son Georg Anton Friedrich von Werpup baptized by the Consistorial Councilor Balthasar Mentzer IV on April 3, 1840 . Another child was the daughter, who married Thedel Friedrich von Wallmoden, the chief appellant in 1759.

In 1745 von Werpup was sent to the Reichstag in Frankfurt am Main as court squire and legation marshal and was appointed thigh that same year .

After the Werpup of 1749 manor Wülfel had acquired, he was first in the following year in 1750 for Hanover chamberlain with the rank of major general applicable and 1755 Castle captain promoted.

After Gottlieb Ludwig von Werpup was appointed court marshal in 1764, he was elevated to court marshal in 1767. However, he died on July 26, 1768 and was buried in the market church of Hanover, “in the Turks - Chapel unt. D. Neue Prieche , for the Cantor Door “.

Antoinette Eleonore Werpup

Werpups "widow Antoinette Eleonore, who must have been a very important woman", worked in the years 1772 and 1773 as chief stewardess of Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark, who resided in Celle . "She was the last person to bear the name of Werpup" and died on April 21, 1792 in Hanover.

literature

  • Andreas Georg Wähner (author), Sigrid Dahmen (editing): Diary from the Seven Years' War (= sources on the history of the city of Göttingen , vol. 2), Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen c / o SUB Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-386 -39506-3-7 , p. 289 et al .; limited preview in Google Book search
  • Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher civil servants at the Electoral Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714–1760 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 24) (= studies on the class history of Lower Saxony , volume 2), vol. 2: lists of officials and ancestors , Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 59

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Georg Wähner (author), Sigrid Dahmen (arrangement): Diary from the Seven Years' War (= sources on the history of the city of Göttingen , vol. 2), Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen c / o SUB Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-386-39506-3-7 , p. 289 et al .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Zimmermann : Fatal accident on the trip to Italy , in this: The Hanoverian portraits second series. Illustrated by Rainer Osswald. Harenberg, Hannover 1984, ISBN 3-89042-008-7 , p. 34ff.
  3. ↑ a b c Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts, in which at the same time descriptions of the life of many class persons appear , vol. 85, Leipzig: Verlag der Heinsiussische Buchhandlung, 1768, p. 707 ; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Aage Friis (ed.): Bernstorff papers. Selected letters and notes concerning the Bernstorff family from the period 1732 to 1835 , in French, German and Danish, Vol. 1: Bernstorffsche Papiere , Copenhagen [u. a.]: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1904, p. 94; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Personal union. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 498.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg August, Elector of Hanover, as Georg II. King of Great Britain a. Ireland. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 210
  7. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann: Hanoverian graves in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 9 (1956), pp. 131–161; here: p. 134; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Werpup, Gottlieb Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Hanover in the Reichstag, chamberlain, castle captain and court marshal
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1707
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1768
Place of death Hanover