Hans Wilhelm Marshal

Hans Wilhelm Marschall , at the time also Marschalch or Marschalk , (* around 1598 in Herrengosserstedt ; † March 29 or May 29, 1677 there ) was Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia , manor owner in Herrengosserstedt and member of the Fruit Bringing Society .

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He came from the Thuringian noble family Marschall , which had its headquarters in the Thuringian town of Gosserstedt, which was soon to be named Herrengosserstedt, since the Middle Ages. His father was Heinrich Marschall the Elder and grew up with his older brother Heinrich Marschall the Younger, who later became the father of Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall , in Herrengosserstedt.

In 1615, Hans Wilhelm and his brother Heinrich lent money to Caspar Melchior von Guthmannshausen "to purchase the Holy Cross" in Herrengosserstedt, the repayment of which dragged on at least until 1627. After their father died, the siblings initially managed the inherited property together, but as early as 1623 they agreed to divide the estate. The lot decided that the older brother took over the newly acquired property of the Holy Cross. Hans Wilhelm Marschall, on the other hand, received his father's main estate in Herrengosserstedt, called the castle estate.

In 1627 Hans Wilhelm Marschall married a close relative: Anna Catharina born. Marshal.

During the Thirty Years' War the castle estate in Herrengosserstedt was in such decline that even in 1658 Hans Wilhelm Marschall “was unable to raise the slightest amount of funds” , which was necessary after the death of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony in 1656 to accept the enfeoffment with his manor personally at the court of the Electorate of Saxony in Dresden . Only gradually did his financial situation stabilize again.

As the fit one with the saying save me with your word , Hans Wilhelm Marschall became a member of the Fruitful Society .

At the age of 76, Hans Wilhelm Marschall ceded his manor in Herrengosserstedt to his only son Ludwig Ernst Marschall in 1676 and died shortly afterwards, on March 29 or May 1677. Through his daughter-in-law Susanna Sibylla nee. In the last decade of his life, Hans Wilhelm Marschall von Drachenfels had close ties to the court of Saxe-Weimar , as Rudolf von Drachenfels, his son's father-in-law, was a councilor and court marshal there.

literature

• Hans Appel: The sex of the marshals of Herrengosserstedt and Burgholzhausen. AMF-Altkreis Eckartsberga, Tromsdorf 1981, OCLC 164928170 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Neumarck: The newly sprouting German palm tree , 1668, No. 105