Isaak du Plessis-Gouret

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Isaak du Plessis-Gouret (* March 23, 1637 ; † 1688 ) was a colonel in Brandenburg , commander of the Spandau citadel and later of Magdeburg and a knight of the Order de la Generosite . He was the owner of the Trense Vorwerk in the Grabow district, the Wustermark estate near Spandau, and the heir of Malsdorf, Lutern and Lützow in the Kurmark .

Life

His family comes from France, his father Elie du Plessis-Gouret (* 1588; † December 4, 1656) came to Switzerland , to Vaud . His mother was his second wife Gertrude de Bye (1583–1668). His father is one of the builders of the Entreroches Canal .

Isaak du Plessis-Gouret was lieutenant colonel in the Prussian army under Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in 1667 and became chamberlain to the electoral prince. As the owner of the Malsdorf and Lützow estates, he received the Prussian indigenous community on September 27, 1667 . He also called himself Herr von La Primaye (the family estate in Brittany) and Espande (Ependes was the estate in Switzerland that his brother André inherited). On May 15, 1672 he was appointed colonel by the Elector. He was then sent on a diplomatic mission to Switzerland with Friedrich von Dohna . He was supposed to convince the Swiss to fight together with the Kaiser against the French King Louis XIV and at the same time prevent Swiss mercenaries from fighting for France. Instead, 10,000 Swiss should go into battle for the Elector and the Dutch. The negotiations also failed because the emperor did not support the negotiation. Nevertheless, Plessis and his son were granted hereditary citizenship by Bern on October 23 . Plessis-Gouret was recalled and the elector appointed him commandant of Spandau. In 1675, the commandant of Magdeburg, Colonel Schmidt von Schmidtseck, was arrested for treason and taken to the Peitz fortress . In his place, du Plessis-Gouret was appointed commander, and he also took over his company. During the war he fought in the Battle of Fehrbellin and so he received the Order De la Générosité, which he donated from the then Elector Prince Friedrich . On June 6, 1680, Plessis and Gustav Adolf von der Schulenburg commanded 400 men and occupied Halle, Moritzburg and Mansfeld Castle after the death of the administrator August von Sachsen-Weißenfels . With his success he secured the grace of the elector. On January 16, 1681 he gave up the post of Commandant of Magdeburg. He died in 1688.

family

On September 26, 1665, he married Agnes Dorothea von Götzen (* 1646; † September 4, 1667), a daughter of the captain of the offices of Gramzow and Seehausen, Hans Sigismund von Götzen (* 1620; † January 31, 1673) at the electoral palace in Cölln ) and Klara Dorothea, née von Brösigke . She died shortly after giving birth to her first child, who also died shortly afterwards.

After her death he married Louise vom Somnitz († after 1706), the daughter of the Chancellor and Hereditary Chamberlain of Pomerania Lorenz Christoph von Somnitz and Ida Erdmuth, née von Krockow . The couple had several children including:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm (Frederic Guillaume) (~ 1670)
  • Lorenz Christoph (Laurent Christophe) (~ 1672)
  • Charles-Isaac ⚭ Charlotte von Ripperda (daughter of Ludwig Wilhelm von Ripperda (1656 - circa 1713))

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tollin speaks of the Pour le Mérite which only existed under Frederick II.
  2. ↑ C. de Francquen Recueil historique, généalogique , p. 315, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Plessis-Gouret, you Isaak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg colonel, commandant of Spandau and later of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1637
DATE OF DEATH 1688