Jean from L'Estocq

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Jean von L'Estocq (also: Jean Lestocq or Jean Louis L'Estocq ; born January 8, 1647 in Vitry-le-François , † December 18, 1732 in Hanover ) was a Franco-German doctor and court barber as well as Elector of Hanover Court - surgeon . He is considered the ancestor of the German noble family von L'Estocq .

Life

Jean of L'Estocq was a son of the citizen Jean L'Estocq in Vitry-le-François and the Cathérine Guérard . Similar to the Huguenot Ludolph Lafontaine under the French Sun King Louis XIV , L'Estocq also left his homeland. With Judith (1655–1732), the daughter of the pharmacist Daniel Colin in Vitry-le-François and Anne de Campdomère , he fathered his son, who was born in Celle in 1692 and later favorite of the Russian Empress Catherine II (the great), Count Johann Hermann from L'Estocq .

Jean von L'Estocq also worked in Celle as a surgeon, chief surgeon of the ducal guard and as a court barber, and was also raised to the rank of court surgeon for Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Later, L'Estocq served his sovereign Elector Georg Ludwig , who was to establish the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover as King George I , also as a surgeon in the royal seat of Hanover .

Jean von L'Estocq died in Hanover in 1732. A member of the Protestant Christians was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof , where his grave can still be found today.

literature

  • Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1879, fourth year, p.204f

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c L'Estocq, Jean von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in processing on February 16, 2016, last accessed on April 16, 2016
  2. ^ A b Heinz Müller-Dietz : L'Estocq, Hermann Graf von. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 14 (1985), pp. 355f.,; Online version as German biography
  3. ^ Franz Muncker : Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 17, Leipzig 1883, pp. 512-520; here: p. 512; online digitization of the Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
  4. ↑ a b Compare, for example, the information in the German biography
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, as Georg I from 1714 King of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 210f.
personal data
SURNAME L'Estocq, Jean of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lestocq, Jean; L'Estocq, Jean Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German doctor, court barber surgeon in Celle and Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitry-le-François
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1732
Place of death Hanover