Immanuel Ignaz of Nassau-Siegen

Immanuel Ignaz von Nassau-Siegen (left: Emanuel Ignatius van Nassau-Siegen ) (born January 6, 1688 in Roermond ; † August 11, 1735 in Brussels ) was an officer in the Spanish and Austrian imperial services and administrator of Nassau-Siegen .

family

He came from the Catholic line of the house of Nassau-Siegen and was the third son of Johann Franz Desideratus from his third marriage to Isabella Claire Eugénie du Paget de la Serre. There were disputes over the legal status of this marriage. In 1701 the Reichshofrat and in 1709 the Reich Chamber of Commerce decided that this marriage was not equal. This meant that the resulting offspring were excluded from the succession. In 1699 the three sons were given the title of Baron von Ronse. Nevertheless, Immanuel Ignaz used the title of prince.

He himself married Charlotte de Mailly-Nesle. The marriage resulted in sons who had died in infancy in 1712 and 1713. The couple later lived separately from each other and the wife is said to have led a dissolute life in Paris and finally was temporarily committed to a monastery. Despite the separation, she later claimed that another son, Maximilian Wilhelm Adolf, had emerged from the relationship with Immanuel Ignaz.

Life

Immanuel Ignaz was initially an officer in the Spanish army in the Spanish Netherlands . After these became Austrian in 1714 , he transferred to Imperial Austrian services. In 1718 he became a colonel. From 1723 he was sergeant-general and in 1733 he was finally appointed field marshal lieutenant. He was also captain of the Arcierengarde of the governor Maria Elisabeth and held other court offices. In 1715 he was accepted into the Spanish branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

After the death of Friedrich Wilhelm I Adolf von Nassau-Siegen in 1722 and the hope of a Catholic succession, Emperor Karl VI. In 1723 the three descendants of Johann Franz Desideratus who are not in line with their status are legitimized. This meant that they were entitled to inheritance. After Wilhelm Hyacinth was expelled in 1727, the Emperor transferred the administration of Nassau-Siegen to Immanuel Ignaz . His powers were small, since the actual rule was in the hands of officials from the Electorate of Cologne . Soon he was traveling back to Brussels without bothering about the country. However, the Catholic line did not succeed after the death of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Nassau-Siegen , because both Immanuel Ignaz and his brother Franz Hugo died in quick succession in 1735. The alleged son of Immanuel Ignaz Maximilian Wilhelm Adolf, like his son Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen, was not considered to be entitled to inheritance. Maximilian Wilhelm Adolf appeared in vain as a pretender with French support . Therefore Nassau-Siegen fell to Nassau-Diez .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Arndt: Control of rule by the public: The journalistic representation of political conflicts in the Holy Roman Empire 1648-1750 Göttingen, 2013 p. 405

literature

• Erik A. Lund: War for the Every Day: Generals, Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1680-1740 . Westport, 1999 p. 212
• Karl Braun: Prince Hyacint . In: Prussian year books vol. 24 Berlin, 1869 pp. 455f.
• Johann Stephan Pütter : Historical development of today's state constitution of the German Empire. Vol. 3 Göttingen, 1787 p. 33f.