Georg de Hertoghe

Georg de Hertoghe was a Dutch soldier in the Brandenburg service.

Life

Hertoghe was the son of the Quartermaster General of the States General Jan (Jean) de Hertoghe and his wife Jossine Bye. He was married to Susanna, a daughter of Antonius Studler-de Surck.

On March 27, 1648, Prince Ludwig I von Anhalt-Köthen led the festivities at which Hertoghe was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society together with Joachim von der Marwitz , Joachim Sigismund von Loeben and Otto von Grote . Hertoghe was given the company name of the decent and the motto to the women . Saturney or Sedeney ( Satureja hortensis L. ) were chosen as emblems . Hertoghe's entry can be found in the company's Köthen company book under no. 504. There, the rhyme law is also recorded, which he wrote on the occasion of his admission:

The women are decently Saturney
Wan through the same cleanse them beautifully recovered
. I
want to be free in life , but so, that I lead a merciful being,
with love in chastity only the women live with,
And protect their honorary status: Whoever
has chosen him has an honest image, brings real fruit,
but in vain fruit is sought without breeding.

As Dutch captain of the guard, Hertoghe conquered Rheinbach in the Electorate of Cologne in 1672 . Two years later his trail is lost after he was captured by the French prisoners of war in the Battle of Seneffe in 1674 .