Heinrich von Friesen the Younger

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Heinrich von Friesen

Heinrich Freiherr von Friesen (born September 25, 1610 in Rötha ; † May 14, 1680 in Schönfeld ) was the owner of the manor , diplomat and director of the Privy Council.

family

Heinrich Freiherr von Friesen came from the Saxon noble family von Friesen and was the son of the manor owner, Privy Councilor, Chancellor and President of the Court of Appeal Heinrich von Friesen (1578-1659) and his wife Catharina nee von Einsiedel (August 10, 1585 - January 31 1667). The manor owner, head chef , court marshal and governor Carl von Friesen was his grandfather. The Electoral Saxon Secret Council and President of the Upper Consistory Carl von Friesen (1619–1686) was his younger brother. The Reichshofrat and cathedral provost of Meissen Christian August von Friesen (1646–1681) was his nephew, the Electoral Saxon general Christian August von Friesen (1674–1737) his great-nephew.

Heinrich von Friesen's first marriage from 1641 to Ursula von Loß († 1644) and his second marriage from 1647 to Maria Margaretha von Lützelburg (1632-1689). Nine daughters and General Julius Heinrich von Friesen (1657–1706) emerged from the second marriage .

The daughters were:

  • Sibylla Katharina, died early
  • Maria Sophia , born in 1652, married in 1666 to Christoph Heinrich Freiherr von Reichenbach auf Siebeneichen (1610–1677), state elder of Schweidnitz and Jauer, died in 1718 in Jahnishausen
  • Catharina Sophia (born March 19, 1654 - † March 9, 1677), married in 1672. with Hans Heinrich von Maltzan, Freiherr zu Wartenberg, Penzlin, Militsch and Freyhan (1640-1706)
  • Johanna Margareta, (March 29, 1655 - April 10, 1728). In 1668 she married the Baron Maximilian von Schellendorff (1645–1703), and from 1703–1726 she was the mistress of the castle and town in Königsbrück .
  • Ursula Regina, a "learned woman", married in 1673 to Curt Reinick, Count von Callenberg, died in 1714
  • Christina Eleonora, married in 1674 to Friedrich Wilhelm, Count von Stollberg in Stollberg, widowed in 1684, died in 1696
  • Maria Margareta
  • Louise Olegard, died early
  • Johanna Christiana, married to Heinrich Wilhelm, Count von Solms in Sonnewalde, in 1691, died in 1694
  • Henriette Amalia, in 1691 to the Electoral Saxon Field Marshal Heinrich VI. Count Reuss married in Ober-Grätz, died in 1732

Life

Heinrich Freiherr von Friesen studied at the University of Leiden and the University of Wittenberg and undertook educational trips to Paris and Brussels in 1631/32 .

Schönfeld Castle with the church in the background
Schönfeld Church

In 1634 he accompanied the royal Altenburg court envoy to Frankfurt / Main and gained his first diplomatic experience. In 1637 he returned and, like his parents, moved to Dresden . In 1638 he was in Prague on behalf of Duke Johann Philipp von Sachsen-Altenburg a member of the great embassy on the occasion of the reception of the Bohemian fiefs, whereupon in 1639 he was electoral councilor. Heinrich von Friesen spoke several languages ​​and was regularly entrusted with diplomatic missions. In 1650 he was appointed to the Privy Council and in 1651 went as a principal envoy from Saxony to the Reichstag in Regensburg. On August 15, 1653, he was raised to the status of imperial baron together with his father and brother. In 1658 he accompanied Elector Johann Georg II to Frankfurt am Main on election day. In 1665, after the death of Abraham von Sebottendorff (1585–1664), he was electoral Saxon secret council director.

Heinrich von Friesen exerted significant influence in diplomatic services and as a member and director of the Privy Council on domestic and foreign policy in Electoral Saxony and, together with his father Heinrich and brother Carl, was one of the most influential personalities of the Saxon nobility in the period after the Thirty Years' War .

Heinrich von Friesen was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society on August 18, 1658 by Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar . It was given the company name The Rewarding and the Motto The Trouble . Preserved barberries were given to him as an emblem. The entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under number 683.

On May 11, 1678, Heinrich Baron von Friesen, nicknamed Atlas, was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 76 ) in the Leopoldina .

Heinrich von Friesen used Gut Schönfeld largely as a summer residence and lived mainly in his house in Dresden at Kreuzkirche No. 18 (corner of the Altmarkt ), which he inherited from his first wife as a universal heir.

Heinrich von Friesen died in 1680 and was buried in the family crypt built by him in 1676 under the altar place of the Schönfeld church.

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 469 digitized
  • EGM Freiherr von Friesen: The Frisians as homeowners in Dresden. In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter Volume 1, No. 1/5, 1892/1896, pp. 134ff. Digitized
  • Ernst Freiherr von Friesen: History of the imperial baron family von Friesen. 2 volumes, Dresden 1899
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 192 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Schumann, European genealogical manual: in which the latest news ... Leipzig 1754, p. 168 digitized
  2. ↑ Heinrich Frh. Von Friesen: Julius Heinrich Graf von Friesen, Imperial General Feldzeugmeister, Royal English Lieutenant General: a picture of life from the end of the seventh century , Baensch, 1870 ( digitized ) at Google Books .
  3. ↑ Johann Franz Budde, continuation of the general historical LEXICI: in which life and ..., Leipzig 1740, p. 523 digitized


personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Heinrich von the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friesen, Heinrich von; Friesen, Heinrich Freiherr von (full name); Atlas; The rewarding one
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Manor, diplomat and director of the Privy Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Rötha
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1680
Place of death Schönfeld