Johann von Fargel (military)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epitaph Johann von Fargels in the Evangelical Church Erlensee-Rückingen. The stone was moved to the new one after the old church was demolished and is now in the vestibule. Most of the inscription has become illegible.

Johann von Fargel (* 1601 in Reinsdorf , County Mansfeld ; † August 6, 1682 in Rückingen ) was a Brandenburg colonel , head of a regiment on foot, as well as governor of Reinstein Fortress and heir to Rückingen in County Hanau.

Life

From 1642 to 1644 he was the imperial lieutenant colonel in command of Haus Angerort . In the years 1655/1666 he became the manorial authority over the place Rückingen near Hanau . After the end of the Thirty Years' War, Fargel had acquired inheritance contracts from the owner families of Rüdigheim and von Rückingen . His son Johann Lukas also married Helena Albertina Catharina , daughter of Joachim Philipp von Rückingen , in 1670 .

Johann von Fargel became colonel in Brandenburg on December 16, 1665. So he recruited various companies . In 1669 he established three companies near Halberstadt and in 1675 an Esquadron Reiter in Berlin. In the same year he received the “Fargel on foot” regiment . He ceded the regiment in 1679 to Field Marshal Johann Georg von Anhalt .

Between 1665 and 1682 he took part in the Brandenburg campaigns against the Swedes and French. On February 26, 1670 he was raised to the nobility .

family

He was married to Amalie von Bachmann († August 26, 1684). She was the daughter of Adolf Bachmann, Landdinger zu Blanckenberg and Gertrud von Katterbach zu Dürresbach . Her sister Anna was married to Johann Wilhelm zu Neudorf called Ley . The couple had the following children:

  • Johann Lukas (* 1640; † May 19, 1679) Commander of Reinstein ⚭ February 16, 1670 Helena Albertina Catharina von Rückingen
  • Adolf Andres († January 2, 1670)
  • Sara Catharina († December 28, 1674) ⚭ Daniel von Schlabrendorf († November 21, 1680) (brother of Otto von Schlabrendorf )
  • Anna Magaretha († 1644)
  • Arnold Wilhelm († before 1680)

literature

  • Heinrich Bott : The owners of the village Rückingen from the 16th to the 18th century , In: Hanauisches Magazin 17, 1938, No. 1–4, pp. 1–32, especially pp. 20–25.
  • Anton Balthasar König : Johann von Fargel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 410 ( Johann von Fargel at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Leopold von Ledebur (Ed.): Archive for German Aristocratic History, Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics , Volume 2, Berlin 1865, digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Simon : The history of the Reichsständischen Haus Ysenburg and Büdingen , Vol. 1, The history of the Ysenburg-Büdingen'schen Land, Frankfurt a. M. 1865, p. 253, digitized .
  2. ^ Heinrich Bott: The owners of the village Rückingen from the 16th to the 18th century. In: Hanauisches Magazin. Monthly sheets for local history 17, 1938, p. 8f.
  3. ^ Friedrich Everhard von Mering : History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen , Volume 10, p. 20, digitized .
  4. ↑ Family Tree Fargel.pdf .
personal data
SURNAME Fargel, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fargell, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg colonel, chief of the Fargel on foot regiment, governor of Reinstein Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH County of Hanau
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1682
Place of death Return