Johann Paul Rockenthien

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Johann Paul Rockenthien († October 16, 1752 in Merxleben ) was a civil servant in the Saxony-Weissenfels secondary school and in the Electorate of Saxony . He was initially a princely Saxon, from 1746 electoral Saxon bailiff in the Sachsenburg office . He was also heir, liege and court lord in Merxleben.

Life

He comes from the Rockenthien family in Thuringia , who were raised to imperial nobility in 1792 . His father was the Oberamtmann Johann Rockenthien from Langensalza . In this official city Johann Paul grew up as the eldest son together with his younger siblings. When his father bought the indebted manor in Merxleben by auction in 1715, his parents moved there with their children to the country.

He started an administrative career in the service of the Duke of Saxony-Weissenfels. He did an apprenticeship with his father and in 1727 is named vice-bailiff of the Langensalza office . When his father Johann Rockenthien died in 1739, he and his three younger siblings inherited his fiefdom in Merxleben.

As early as 1739 he was referred to as the bailiff at Sachsenburg Castle. He held this position until his death in 1752.

family

On November 25th 1727 Johann Paul Rockenthien married Friederica Regina Christina Guisiin from Thamsbrück in Langensalza . He had the following children with her:

  • Johann Christoph Carl Rockenthien (* 1732)
  • Johann Gustav Ernst Rockenthien (* 1734)
  • Eva Eleonora Constantina Rockenthien (* 1738)
  • Johanne Eleonora Augusta Rockenthien (* 1742) and
  • Christian Heinrich Adolph Rockenthien (* 1747).

His family coat of arms was heraldically designed as follows: In blue, a right-facing, red griffin with a red knocked-out tongue, which holds up three golden ears of wheat in the right claw, the two outer ears of which lean downwards. On the shield there is a helmet on which, between two buffalo horns, stand three golden ears of wheat, the two outer ears of which hang down over the horns. The helmet covers are red and gold.

literature

  • Chronicle of the city of Langensalza in Thuringia , 1842
  • The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Vol. 3, 1856, pp. 386–387
  • Kneschke: Adels-Lexicon , Vol. VII, p. 529

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diss. Iur. crim.œ de denominatione complicis, a delinquente et damnato ad mortem facta, fragili indicio . Rivinus, Johann Florens, Lipsia, Titius, 1727
personal data
SURNAME Rockenthien, Johann Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon-Weißenfels and Electoral Saxon bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1752
Place of death Merxleben