Johann Christoph von Bawyr

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Johann Christoph von Bawyr (also: Bawir , Baur ) (* around 1598 - † January 11, 1676 ) from the noble family of the Lords of Buer was court master of the Palatinate-Neuburg region , general commissioner of the Electorate of the Palatinate and privy councilor as well as stable master of Ludwig I, Prince of Anhalt- Koethen .

origin

Johann Christoph's father was the councilor of the Duke of Berg , court master of the Palatinate-Neuburg for the duchess and bailiff zu Windeck Christoph von Bawyr zu Caspersbroich (* 1561; † 1650); his mother his second wife Elisabeth von Hammerstein (documented 1594–1607). General Friedrich von Bawyr was Johann Christoph's younger brother.

Fruitful society

In 1626 Johann Christoph joined the Fruit Bringing Society , the largest literary group of the Baroque with 890 members . His nickname was Der Warmende and his coat of arms entry from 1629 bears the motto Who has God for friends, what does he care for the world? | Drumb thu (4) nuhrtt (3) Alzeitt (1) right (2), and eight not if you fail. Its plant was cotton .

Career

The proximity to Prince Ludwig I brought Johann Christoph temporarily into the crossfire of the power politics of the Thirty Years' War . In 1631, Ludwig was given the governorship of the Magdeburg and Halberstadt monasteries by King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden . Johann Christoph had then become Swedish war commissioner and captain in the Halberstadt office of Gröningen under Ludwig . In autumn 1633, at the urging of the Swedish Chancellor Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre , Johann Christoph was to persuade Prince Ludwig to give up the office of the Swedish governor of the Magdeburg and Halberstadt monasteries. But it was not until 1635 that Ludwig, exasperated by the friction with the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér and disappointed about the income from the monasteries that had fallen short of his expectations, asked the Swedish Queen Christina to be released and resigned from the administration of the two monasteries. The pens fell back to their elected rulers.

Thereafter, Johann Christoph became General Commissioner and Privy Councilor at the Palatinate-Neuburg court in Heidelberg . Together with Mr. Frederick de Landas , he addressed a request to the British House of Commons in 1643 as Mr. John Christoff de Bawyr . It was about a pass to go beyond Seas for six men, six horses and a carriage as well as boxes with the property of his Highness the Prince Elector Palatine , d. H. of the Palatinate Elector.

After the death of his brother Friedrich in 1667, Johann Christoph took over the guardianship of his underage children. A few years later Johann Christoph died and was buried in Wald near Solingen .

family

Johann Christoph was married twice. His first marriage was in 1630 with Elisabeth von Wrede. From this marriage came a daughter named Sophia Elisabeth, but she died at the age of two. Johann Christoph later married a second time. The name of his second wife is unknown. He doesn't seem to have had any more children.

literature

  • Dietmar Ahlemann: The Lords of Buer - A West German Family History from the High Middle Ages to the 19th Century. In: West German Society for Family Studies eV (Ed.): Yearbook 2012, Volume 274, Cologne 2012, pages 213-300.
  • Klaus Conermann, Günther Hoppe (ed.): The ore note opened to the fruitful society: The fruitful society's projects, names, paintings and words , 3rd volume, Weinheim 1985, page 127 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conermann / Hoppe (1985, Vol. 3), page 127.
  2. ^ Conermann / Hoppe (1985, Vol. 3), page 127.
  3. ↑ Markus Meumann: The Swedish rule in the founders Magdeburg and Halberstadt during the Thirty Years War (1631-1635) . In: The occupied res publica, Berlin a. a. 2006, pages 239-267.
  4. ↑ Arnold Robens: The knight-born rural nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, shown in Wapen and Descent , Vol. 1, Aachen 1818, page 34; Miscelles. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch, Vol. 9, Düsseldorf 1895, page 266; Central archive of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, Speyer, church book (1617–1948) of the Evangelical Reformed Church Bergzabern (Bad Bergzabern).
  5. ↑ House of Commons Journal Vol. 3 (May 16, 1643) ( online ).
  6. ↑ LAV NRW, Dept. Rhineland, RKG IB 121/945.
personal data
SURNAME Bawyr, Johann Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bawir, Johann Christoph von; Baur, Johann Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate General Commissioner and Privy Council
DATE OF BIRTH around 1598
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1676