Joachim Wilhelm Marshal von Bieberstein

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Joachim Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein (born January 12, 1627 Gut Ebersbach (Döbeln) ; † March 5, 1691 in Merseburg ) was a Saxon-Merseburg councilor, court master and chief tax collector.

Joachim Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein was the second son of Alexander Marschall von Bieberstein and his wife Johanna Barbara, nee. von Milckau, born on his father's estate in Ebersbach near Döbeln and baptized on January 30th. In 1637 his parents, together with his older brother Georg Job Marschall von Bieberstein , placed him in the care of the local pastor Schütz, where he attended the city school. In 1640 he moved, again with his brother, to the State Princely School in Meißen and in May 1643 to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied philosophy, history and law until 1645. In 1646 he was given the opportunity, as a member of the Saxon delegation, to attend the peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück until he returned home in the summer of 1647 after being the victim of a robbery in Münster in December 1646, in which he suffered life-threatening injuries the consequences of which he will suffer all his life. Joachim Wilhelm spent the time of convalescence with his uncle Georg Wilhelm von Milckau, until in 1649 Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony took him into his service as a page ("table man"). As early as November 1, 1650, he changed to the service of Duke Christian von Sachsen-Merseburg as a chamberlain. On July 19, 1657 appointment to court and judicial councilor and in this capacity participation in several foreign business trips, so still in 1657 to Prague for negotiations with the Bohemian crown, in April 1658 to the coronation celebrations of Emperor Leopold I to Frankfurt am Main and in 1661, 1663 and 1666 as a delegate to the Saxon state parliament in Dresden. In 1657 Joachim Wilhelm acquired Gut Bennstedt near Halle from Wolf Thilo von Trotha and converted the old Trothasche house into a baroque mansion with extensive parks. On August 31, 1658, he married Armgard von Hahn at Schloss Seeburg, a sister of Count Christian Wilhelm von Hahn auf Seeburg and Remplin (1621–1686), daughter of Werner von Hahn (1583–1634) and Armgard von Bartensleben ( 1595-1666). From this marriage, which ended with Armgard's death on August 21, 1684, a son, Christian Marschall von Bieberstein (1662–1721) emerged. On May 14, 1663 he was appointed chief tax collector in the Electoral Saxony and subsequently as court marshal of the Duchess Christiane von Sachsen-Merseburg. Remarriage to Catharina Elisabeth von Kardorff at the ducal residence in Merseburg on June 2, 1685. Joachim Wilhelm zu Merseburg died on March 5, 1691 and was buried on March 31 in the family crypt in Bennstedt.