Jacob Schickhart the Elder

Jacob Schickhart the Elder (* around 1565 in Siegen , † 1637 at the latest in Friesland ) was a Siegen lawyer who served the Nassau Count Johann VI. d. Ä. and Johann VIII. d. J. stood.

Life

Jacob Schickhart was the eldest son of Henrich Schickhartt . He studied law: from 1582 in Marburg , from 1585 in Heidelberg and from 1594 in Siegen, where the high school in Herborn was temporarily relocated due to the plague . In 1601 he received his doctorate in Herborn. He must have married at the beginning of his studies, because his eldest son Jacob was born in 1584. Who his wife was could not be determined.

On January 2, 1602, Count Johann VI appointed him. d. Ä. from Nassau to the “advice from home”. But this did not mean that Schickhart could not take on other assignments. In 1605 he advised the county of Sayn . In December 1605, John VI set him. instead of the deceased Johann Geiß as his secretary to Siegen, later - possibly from 1608 - he was given the title of "Count of Nassau Chamber and Chancellery". But even during this time he was allowed to take on further orders. In 1609/10 he worked for the Keppel monastery . In the functions of a count's councilor and secretary, he traveled several times to the Republic of the United Netherlands between 1611 and 1616 . His task was to negotiate financial compensation in Groningen for the extensive support that the Dutch rebels had received from Siegen-Nassau-Orange-Breda during the almost eighty-year war against Spanish rule (development of financial sources, admission of emigrants, participation in the struggle for freedom as a general and governor). In 1618 Schickhart traveled to Brussels to participate in the marriage negotiations of Count Johann VIII. J. to attend with Princess Yolande Ernestine von Ligne . In 1621 he was at the opening of the will of John VII. M. involved.

For his work for the Count of Nassau, Schickhart received an annual salary of 40 fl . Since 1602 and 150 fl. Since 1608. Financially, he was doing well and since 1609 he was the owner of the house, farm and stables in Kölner Straße as well as a half of a barn and a farm in the back street . In 1615 he donated 50 Thl. for the contemporary education of the youth in Siegen and the surrounding area. From 1621 he was apparently no longer working for the Count of Nassau, but still received an annual salary of 50 florins. Since his name appears in the municipal tax and appraisal registers of Siegen in the years 1610–1623 among the sovereign servants, and from 1624 The city of Siegen assumes that Schickhart must have died in 1624 only as "Jacob Schickhart Wittlib (widow)". But his name appears again from 1628 in the files of the officials of the Ottonian line of the House of Nassau. He is said to have worked in Friesland during this time and only died in 1637. During this time he was in the service of Count John VIII, who had converted to Catholicism. J. and played a prominent role during the recatholicization of the county of Nassau-Siegen . It can be assumed that he - originally a Calvinist himself - converted to Catholicism.

children

Four of his six children emigrated to the Netherlands.

• Jacob Schickhart (* 1584; † 1664 in Anloo ), Landschreiber of Drente
• Maria Schickhart, ⚭ around 1607 Johannes Buch, pastor in Siegen and Krombach
• Magdalena Schickhart, ⚭ 1610 Hermann Ravensberger , professor of theology in Herborn and Groningen
• Martin Schickhard the Younger (* after 1590; † before 1657 in Frankfurt am Main ), lawyer
• Philip Herman Schickhart (* 1600; † 1675 in Meppel ), Schulte (i.e. sovereign representative of an administrative district) from Meppel (Overijssel)
• Philip Schickhart (* 1605; † January 5, 1646 in Stedum ), pastor in Sneek ( province of Friesland )

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Date and place of death according to the file of the officials of the Ottonian line of the house Nassau, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden. The city of Siegen assumes an earlier death, namely around 1624 in Siegen. - Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Siegener Schickhardt family ... , p. 20 and 21
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Siegener Schickhardt family ... , p. 20
3. ↑ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Siegener Schickhardt family ... , p. 21
4. ^ Gerhard Specht: Johann VIII. Of Nassau-Siegen ...

literature

• Horst Schmid-Schickhardt : The Siegener Schickhardt family in the 15th to 17th centuries. Attempt of a partial genealogy , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2008
• Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: Important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 1999
• Gerhard Specht: Johann VIII. Von Nassau-Siegen and the Catholic Restoration in the County of Siegen , Paderborn 1964 (= studies and sources on Westphalian history, 4)