Johann Daniel von Cronberg

Johann Daniel von Cronberg the Elder J. (* around 1616 at Hof Iben , Alzey district ; † 1673 ) was a German court official.

Life

Johann Daniel was the son of the baron of the same name Johann Daniel von Cronberg the Elder. Ä. and his wife Maria Elisabeth von Partenheim. Baron Hartmut von Cronberg was his older brother. Both were also called Junker zu Iben. He studied in Strasbourg, Leiden and Leipzig.

With the death of his father in 1621, his uncle Johann Schweikard von Cronberg and Reinhard von Geispitzheim were appointed guardians of the two brothers.

In 1647, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen commissioned Count Palatine Ludwig Philipp von Simmern Cronberg, together with his brother Baron Hartmut von Cronberg , Count Christian von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein and Count Palatine Georg Wilhelm von Birkenfeld to join the Fruit-Bringing Society . The Count Palatine did this in the same year in his residence in Kaiserslautern . The Count Palatine gave Cronberg the company name of the Drifters and the motto of the Grind and Scabies . Cronberg's emblem was the blue scabiosis or grind herb ( Knautia arvensis L. Coult. ). Cronberg's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 471. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission is also recorded there:

The blue Schebekraut that drives away the grind
And itch, that's why I'm Drifting away 'accepted
with takeaway, you can find this herb a lot in the summer
That can get to the art scene of the disease,
and that's what it's called. We are trusted through this,
we should be ready for our next pious
To drive away from him 'what can bring harm,
And give good fruit with pleasure for everyone.

The two brothers vehemently campaigned against their (Catholic) relative Count Kraft Adolf Otto von Cronberg for the reintroduction of the Protestant denomination in Kronberg.

In 1650 Johann Daniel was mentioned as a hunter from the Palatinate.

Due to family disputes, Johann Daniel dueled with his brother Hartmut in 1668 near Iben Castle. Because of the servant who was almost shot dead on his noble territorio zu Iben , an official investigation was carried out. However, it is also possible that the duel between the two brothers, who are otherwise close in all legal and religious matters, was invented in order to make the servant's death appear as an accident.

Baron Johann Daniel von Cronberg died unmarried and without descendants. With the death of his cousins also unmarried, Baron Johann Nikolaus von Cronberg the family died of the von Cronberg in the male line (see Fig. A. Master list of the house Kronberg ).

literature

• Markwart Müller-Hillebrand: Cronberg: History of a knight family. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1950.
• Ludwig von Ompteda : The von Kronberg and its manor: the origin, bloom and end of the sex. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1899 (incorrect in some parts, family tables out of date).
• Wolfgang Ronner : Family table of the knights, lords and counts of Kronberg. Self-published, Kronberg im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-9800322-1-3 .
• Wolfgang Ronner : The von Kronberg and their women: encounters with a knight family. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7686-6035-4 .
• Wolfgang Ronner : The Lords of Kronberg and their Imperial Fief 1189–1704, Regesta and additional texts. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-7829-0507-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ronner, Reg. 626, nothing is known about the outcome of the proceedings.