Jobst from Landsberg to Erwitte
Jobst II von Landsberg (* around 1567; † July 9, 1622 in Dringenberg ) from the noble family of the Lords of Landsberg , Herr zu Erwitte and Mark , was Landdrost and a high-ranking officer in the Thirty Years War .
Life
His parents were Ludolf von Landsberg and Ursula von Hoerde. His brother Jobst Ludolf was married to Magdalena Dorothea von Wetterg . His sister Anna Ursula (* 1598) was married to Westhoff von Brabeck and was the mother of Prince-Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck . Margarethe (* 1610) was married to Johann Wilhelm von der Recke , Dorothea Otilia (* 1585) to Johann Melchior von Meschede . Jobst married Dorothea von Erwitte zu Welschenbeck. She was the heir to the Erwitte zu Welschenbeck line. As a result, these goods came to the Landsberg family. He and his wife had ten children. Among them was Daniel Dietrich von Landsberg zu Erwitte . Landsberg was Landdrost, Kurkölner and prince-bishop Paderborn council. He had the early Baroque Erwitte Castle built around 1600 .
As a colonel and major general, he served in Bavarian services and in the service of the Catholic League . In 1620, during the Thirty Years' War off Nuremberg, he commanded a troop of 18 ensigns. In 1622 he commanded a troop on the Westphalian theater of war that reinforced the occupation of the city of Warburg .
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Ludwig von Soden: War and moral history of the imperial city of Nuremberg. Volume II, Erlangen 1861, p. 4.
- ^ Karl von Reitzenstein: The campaign of 1622 on the Upper Rhine and Westphalia up to the Battle of Wimpfen. Munich 1893, p. 86.
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| SURNAME | Landsberg zu Erwitte, Jobst von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Military and land rust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1567 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1622 |
| Place of death | Dringenberg |