Johann von Mario zu Gammerslewe

Johann von Mario zu Gammerslewe (* before 1624, † around 1650 ) was a member of the Fruit Bringing Society .

Life

Little is known about his youth and education.

Under the orders of Christian I von Anhalt-Bernburg and later under that of Count Georg Friedrich von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim , Johann von Mario zu Gammerslewe served as lieutenant colonel.

In 1624, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted him into the Fruit-Bringing Society . He gave it the company name of golden yellow and the motto for strengthening the heart . Saffron with the flower ( Crocus sativus L. ) was given to him as an emblem . Johann von Mario's entry can be found in the Koethener society book under the number 100. There is also the rhyme law recorded, with which he thanked for the admission:

God's grace surrender to me

Hope live Jch

My mind is in honor

Then live and die Jch

Friend in need, friend to death,

Friends behind Ruckhen, at the same time his 3 Starckh Bruckhen

Jn unlucky fro, who khan then?

A few years later he was led as court master in the court of Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg . From 1629 he served as a Braunschweig colonel for three years. As such, Johann von Mario zu Gammerslewe married Elisabeth Hochgraf , the widow of Capitain Nikolaus von Buschhausen, on February 21, 1632 . With her he has a son, Johann Heinrich von Mario zu Gammerslewe .

Under Prince Friedrich Heinrich von Orange he was promoted to court man and military commissioner in The Hague . The correspondence with his friend Friedrich von Schilling , a Anhalt court marshal, has come down to us from this time . The correspondence with Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen has also survived in fragments .

From this we learn that Johann von Mario zu Gammerslewe asked several times in vain for his son, a colonel in Dutch service as governor of Hulst , to join the Fruit-Bringing Society.

Perhaps this request was simply lost between the death of Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen in 1650 and the election of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in 1651 as head of society. According to the current state of research, the death of the supplicant for the rejection would also be plausible.