Johann von Norprath

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John of Norprath (* around 1600 , † 6. December 1657 in Duisburg ) was a kurbrandenburger lieutenant general and governor of Herford and Dusseldorf and Mr. von Hüllhausen.

Life

origin

He comes from the old Rhenish family Norprath from the Dyckhof line . His parents were Godhard von Norprath from House Dykhove and his wife Katharina von Bottlenberg called Kessel .

Military career

Nothing further is known about its first years. From 1618 he was in the Palatinate-Neuburg service and distinguished himself several times during the Thirty Years' War . From 1625 to 1628 he was Danish lieutenant general of the cavalry of King Christian IV. The purchase of the Beckum estate in the Ovelgönne district also took place at this time. After the Danes had made peace, Norprath received pardon from Emperor Ferdinand II on September 9, 1630 , after the Elector of Cologne and the Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm became related for him.

On October 15, 1636, Norprath became governor of Düsseldorf in the Palatinate-Neuburg region . In 1640 he bought the tithe of Duisburg from Anna Magaretha von Reuspe, widowed von der Horst . In 1641 he was sent to Königsberg in Prussia for the coronation of the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

In 1643 he joined Kurbrandenburg as a lieutenant general. There he became governor of Herford and on January 1, 1650 a privy councilor. He commands his own regiment and receives 1000 thalers for it. Norprath gave his regiment to Colonel Christoph Albrecht von Schönaich, but kept his personal company in Duisburg. The feed for the horses had to be paid to the Dinkslaken office, the salary from the Sparrenberg office. From 1644 to 1646 Norprath was president of the government in Kleve and thus de facto governor of the market. He supported the Johann Paul Ludwig council in modernizing the administration, and he also recruited soldiers for the Prussian army. In 1651 he became the Brandenburg governor of Düsseldorf, where he also died.

family

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In 1629 he married Agnes Johanna von Henin (1605–1665), a daughter of Maximilian d'Hennin de Wasne (von Werse, Veere?) And widow of Seger von Spee zu Aldenhoff. The following children are known:

  • Wolfgang Günther († 1686) ⚭ 1659 Anna Elisabeth Hellenberg Freiin von Bawyr
  • Sophie Elisabeth ⚭ Johann Caspar von Koenigsegg
  • Agnes Johanna (* 1635) ⚭ Johann Adam Heinrich von Efferen called von Hall zum Busch (her son was the Electoral Palatinate General Johann Wilhelm von Efferen ; † 1724)

His son Wolfgang Günther was a colonel in the service of the Electorate of Cologne and Linn's official . His son Franz Heinrich († 1722) was also a colonel in the service of the Electorate of Cologne as well as a clerk of Uerdingen , with whom the family went out.

literature

  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , pp. 3-4, no. 5.
  • Anton Fahne: History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and certificates. Volume 1, p. 306. Family tree Norprath
  • Joseph Strange: Contributions to the genealogy of the noble families. P. 82f.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. P. 531.
  • Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. P. 589 Partial view
  • Helmut Ritscher: Calendar for the Klever Land. 33 (1983), pp. 181-184, Lieutenant General Johann von Norprath - the first electoral prince. Commissioner for the Lower Rhine. [1]
  • Anton Balthasar König : Johann von Norpraet . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military people . tape III . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 478 ( Johann von Norpraet in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Kohli: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg together with the inheritance of Jever, and the two principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld. Volume 2, p. 122.
  2. ^ Gerhard Anton von Halem : History of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Second volume, p. 206.
  3. ↑ The widow was buried in the Salvatorkirche (Duisburg) where her tombstone can still be found, E. Verheyen: Die Denkmäler des Rheinlandes: Duisburg. , P. 21.
  4. ↑ Arnold Robens: The knight-born rural nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, represented in coats of arms and origins. Volume 1, p. 163.
  5. ↑ Arnold Robens: The knight-born rural nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, represented in coats of arms and origins. Volume 1, p. 33 Baur von Frankenberg
  6. ^ Anton Fahne: History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and documents. Volume 1, p. 36 Family tree Efferen
personal data
SURNAME Norprath, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish and Brandenburg Lieutenant General, Governor of Herford, Governor of Düsseldorf
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1657
Place of death Duisburg