Johann von Leuchselring

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Johann von Leuchselring also Leuxelring and in other spellings (* around 1585 in Haldenwang (Günzburg district); † after 1659 probably in Ottobeuren ) was a lawyer, city chancellor of Augsburg and envoy in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia .

Life

Johann Leuchselring was born in Haldenwang around 1585 as the son of Laurentius Leuchselring and his wife Regina Gränz. His father was a clerk and steward there at the time of his birth. In 1593/94 the father was paid for the first time by Fugger as a clerk in the Swabian town of Babenhausen . The family moved there. Johann Leuchselring grew up with at least two siblings and later six half-siblings in Babenhausen.

In August 1602 Johann Leuchselring enrolled at the University of Dillingen to study syntax . In 1605 he was enrolled in law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Leuchselring heard lectures from Friedrich Martini , whose daughter Anna Maria he later married. The couple had two sons, Johann Friedrich (* 1615) and Justinian Reinhard (* 1635). At the time of his marriage, Leuchselring was already a knightly syndic . He earned a living for his family by representing the imperial knighthood in legal matters.

In a petition for a letter to the nobility , Leuchselring wrote, “that he is now in the 14th year of the imperial free knighthood in the state of Swabia, the St. Georgen Schilts association also of the Viertheyls in Högaw, Allgäw and on Lake Constance also various Catholic princes and estates serve] ”. The request was granted and Leuchselring was ennobled on October 2, 1630.

Leuchselring represented the city of Augsburg on the Electoral Congress in Regensburg in 1630. On February 14, 1636 he was hired by this as city chancellor and worked as their envoy at the imperial court. In 1638 Leuchselring stayed in Vienna, from there gave up his office as city chancellor, but was reinstated in this post in 1639.

Augsburg finally sent Leuchselring to Münster in 1645 for the peace negotiations that were supposed to end the Thirty Years War . Leuchselring represented Catholicism, the city council of Augsburg and the Swabian counts. After the Peace of Westphalia was concluded, Leuchselring was dismissed by the city of Augsburg in 1649.

From 1650 to 1659 he held the office of monastery official in the Ottobeuren monastery.

literature

  • Friedrich Cast: South German noble hero, volume 1, gardener, 1839 (online version)
  • Andreas Kraus: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3
  • Christian Jakob Wagenseil: Attempting a History of the City of Augsburg Bäumer, 1820
  • Heckel Martin: Germany in the Confessional Age Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983, ISBN 3-525-33483-4
  • Paul von Stetten the Elder J .: Life descriptions for the awakening and entertainment of civil virtue , 1778, Bayer. State Library (online version)

Further evidence

  • State Archive Sigmaringen, Depot 38 T 1.
  • Fugger archive Dillingen, FA 67.1.10.
  • Parish register of the Diocese of Augsburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schröder Alfred: The matriculation of the University of Dillingen Archive for the history of the Hochstift Augsburg, digitized by the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, online version
  2. ^ The register of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1460–1656 (online version)
  3. ↑ Lupold von Lehsten: The Hessian Reichstag Envoy in the 17th and 18th Centuries - Volume 2 Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt, 2003, ISBN 3-88443-091-2
  4. ^ Max Braubach: Acta pacis Westphalicae Aschendorff, 2008, ISBN 3-402-05001-3 , page 134
  5. ↑ P. Magnus Bernhard OSB: Description of the monastery and church at Ottobeuren 1864 (online version)
personal data
SURNAME Leuchselring, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuxelring, Johann; Leixelring, Johann; Leuchselring, Joannes; Leichselrinus, Joannes; Leuchsenring, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, city chancellor of Augsburg and envoy to the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH around 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldenwang
DATE OF DEATH after 1659
Place of death uncertain: Ottobeuren