Johann Georg von Ribbeck the Elder

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Johann Georg (I.) von Ribbeck (also: Hans Georg, the Elder , or Johann George ; * December 10, 1577 in Spandau , † January 27, 1647 in Cölln ) was the Brandenburg Privy Councilor and heir to Glienicke , Dyrotz and Seegefeld . He was also captain of the Spandau Citadel , although he never belonged to the Brandenburg Army or held a military command .

Life

origin

He comes from the Osthavelländischen line of the family von Ribbeck . His parents were the progenitor of the Georg von Ribbeck line (1523–1593) and his wife Anna von Sparr († March 21, 1597). His mother was the daughter of the Kurbrandenburg Oberhofmeister Christoph von Sparr and widow of the archbishopric Magdeburg Hofmeister Joachim von Bredow († 1573). His father was kurbrandenburgischer Amtshauptmann of Spandau and gentleman on Glienicke.

Career

He was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on March 27, 1591 , but went to Leipzig in the winter semester of 1592 , where he studied law until 1596, and from 1596 to 1597 he was still at the University of Strasbourg . He was then supposed to go on a cavalier tour to France and Italy , but since his mother died, he returned to Brandenburg. In 1598 he made a short trip to Denmark instead , in order to devote himself to the administration of his goods. But then he came into the retinue of the then Elector Prince Johann Siegismund and accompanied him through Franconia , Württemberg and the Palatinate . In 1608 he traveled to Prussia with the elector . After his father-in-law died in 1609, he became his successor, and in the same year he also became captain of Spandau. From 1620 to 1645 he was then a decree of the medieval knighthood , general overseer of the ucker , old and central markets. In 1630 he accompanied Chancellor Sigismund von Götzen to the peace negotiations in Regensburg . On March 1, 1641, after he had already been Chamberlain , Colonel and Captain of Potsdam and Saarmund, he was appointed by the Elector to the Real Privy Council , and in 1644 he gave up his position as Canon in Brandenburg to his son.

He died on January 27, 1647 in Cölln and was buried on March 28, 1648 in the newly built crypt of the hereditary burial of the Nikolai Church in Spandau .

family

On October 12, 1600, he married Catharina von Brösigke (* May 2, 1571; † March 11, 1650) from the Ketzür family , a daughter of Heino von Brösigke's head . The couple had several children:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John L. Dilschmann: Diplomatic history and description of the town and fortress Spandow , Berlin 1785, S. 62nd
  2. ↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200th foundation day on January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, p. 346, no. 31.
  3. ^ Samuel Lenz : Diplomatic Stifts-Historie von Brandenburg , Halle 1749, p. 111.
  4. ↑ The inheritance of the von Ribbeck family. In: Otto Kuntzemüller : Documented history of the city and fortress Spandau from the origins of the city to the present. Spandau 1881, p. 163.
  5. ↑ Valentin König : Genealogical Adelskalender - Genealogical aristocratic history or gender description of those noble families in the Chur-Saxon and neighboring countries. Volume 1, Leipzig 1727, p. 1015.
  6. ↑ Hans Balthasar von Katte on worldhistory.de.
personal data
SURNAME Ribbeck, Johann Georg von the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribbeck, Johann Georg von; Ribbeck, Johann Georg I. von; Ribbeck, Hans Georg von; Ribbeck, Johann George von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg Privy Council, Commander of the Spandau Citadel
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1647
Place of death Cölln