Johann Ernst of Bibra

Johann Ernst of Bibra

Johann Ernst Freiherr von Bibra (* March 10th ^July / March 20,  1662 ^greg. In Schwebheim ; † August 19, 1705 in Bergamo ) rose in the course of his military career to the rank of Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant (April 12, 1701), Lieutenant General Field Marshal (11th May 1704) and Austrian General Feldzeugmeister (May 20, 1704).

Origin and family

Main article: Bibra (noble family)

Johann Ernst Freiherr von Bibra comes from the Thuringian-Franconian noble family of the von Bibra . He was married to Maria Anna Agnes von Tastungen . Together with his brothers, including Georg Friedrich, Heinrich Karl and Christoph Erhard , he received the hereditary imperial baron diploma in 1698.

Military career

Johann Ernst attended the Jesuit grammar school in Würzburg at a young age . After serving in Spanish services in the Netherlands, he was hired again in Würzburg in 1685 by Bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg as a chamberlain . In 1688 he became a war councilor and war march commissioner in the Franconian Empire , in 1689 he was promoted to a privy councilor . As a lieutenant colonel, he took in Wurzburg regiment Thüngen on the Nine Years War in part. In the series of titles that followed, he was in command of the Marienberg Fortress and the city of Würzburg in 1697 and as Würzburg Lieutenant General Field Marshal in 1697. In diplomatic matters he worked for Würzburg , Mainz and the Franconian district . After deployments in Hungary he switched to Austrian services in 1701 and received the rank of imperial field marshal lieutenant that same year. In 1704, with the support of Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn of Mainz, he was appointed Lieutenant General Field Marshal. In 1704 he was also promoted to the position of Austrian General Feldzeugmeister. He died in 1705 during a campaign in Italy from the effects of pneumonia .

literature

• Wilhelm Freiherr von Bibra: Contributions to the family history of the imperial barons of Bibra. (BD. 3), 1888 . Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf , pp. 2, 30, 42, 44–45, 55, 57, 70, 78, 125, 127, 158–190 , 221
• Martin Stingl: Imperial freedom and prince service. The service relationships of von Bibra 1500 to 1806 208–210. Degener, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1994 (publications of the Society for Franconian History. Series IX; 41)
• Schwinger, Hans In Schwaam is good laam: Schwebheim in testimonies from his past 6. Death in Bergamo: Johann Ernst von Bibra