Hermann von Wachtendonk

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Hermann von Wachtendonck's coat of arms at the castle in Heitersheim with the year

Hermann von Wachtendonk († June 16, 1704 in Kleve ) was Grand Prior of Germany of the Order of St. John and Prince of Heitersheim from 1683 to 1704 .

life and career

Hermann von Wachtendonk was born as the son of Arnold Freiherr von Wachtendonk and his wife Anna von Nesselrode zum Stein ; the year of birth is unknown. The original seat of the old Lower Rhine noble family von Wachtendonk was the Wachtendonk Castle in the Duchy of Geldern , which was destroyed in 1603 . On February 15, 1660 he joined the Order of St. John. He was temporarily entrusted with the management of the education of the later Palatine Elector Johann Wilhelm .

As early as 1672 the right to regain the Dutch comers Arnheim and Nijmegen was transferred from Gottfried Droste zu Vischering to Hermann von Wachtendonk. However, even he did not succeed in restituting these comrades, who had been confiscated by the Netherlands, for the Order of St. John. In 1674 he received the commander Hemmendorf and Rexingen , which he kept until January 1683. After a short time as Großbailli (November 29, 1682 to January 16, 1683) and commander of the Kommende Leuggern, he was elected Grand Prior of the Order of St. John in Germany on January 16, 1683. To this end, he received five priorities: Utrecht , Cologne , Heimbach , Bubikon and Freiburg i. Br. He previously resigned his office as Großbailli and the office of commendator of the Johanniterkommende Leuggern .

In the same year the Grand Master Gregorio Carafa appointed him titular commander of the commander in Arnhem and Nijmegen confiscated by the Netherlands . The grand master probably linked the hope that Hermann von Wachtendonk, as imperial prince, could regain these comers for the Order of St. John. Hermann von Wachtendonk died on June 16, 1704 in Kleve in his brother's house. Hermann Adrian von Wachtendonk was his nephew and the later Electoral Palatinate Minister Hermann Arnold von Wachtendonk was his great-nephew.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the von Wachtendonk

"The coat of arms of Hermann II von Wachtendonk is quartered, fields 1 and 4: in red a continuous silver cross (Johanniter), fields 2 and 3: a red lily." The family coat of arms was the red one shown in fields 2 and 3 Lily.

literature

  • Walter G. Rödel: The German (grand) priors. In: Bernard Andenmatten (arrangement), Petra Zimmer and Patrick Braun (ed.): Helvetia Sacra, 4th department , volume 7, part 1 Die Johanniter, pp. 51–76, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2006, p. 71 / 72.
  • Johanna Maria van Winter: Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands 14th-18th centuries. Brill, Leiden, 1998 ISBN 9004108033 (hereinafter abbreviated to Winter, Sources with corresponding page number and certificate number)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnold Robens: The knight-born rural nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine , 2nd volume, Aachen 1818, p. 222 digitized
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon published in association with several historians , ninth volume. [Steinhaus - Zwierlein.] 1870 in the Internet Archive
  3. ^ Ernst von Schaumburg : The youth of Johann Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich and Berg. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein: ZBGV, Volume 5; P. 329 digital copy
  4. ↑ Winter, Sources, p. 170, No. 190.
  5. ↑ Winter, Sources, p. 170, No. 191.
  6. ↑ a b Winter, Sources, p. 171, no. 192.
  7. ↑ entry on world of coats of arms ; accessed on September 29, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Gottfried Droste to Vischering Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta and Prince von Heitersheim
1683–1704 		Bernhard Wilhelm von Rhede
personal data
SURNAME Wachtendonk, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Prior of the German Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1704
Place of death Cleve