Johann von Ponickau

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The later Pomßen Castle - seat of Johann von Ponickau

Johann (Hans) von Ponickau (born June 26, 1584 in Ebersbach / Sa. , † March 12, 1642 in Leipzig ) was an imperial councilor and Reichspfennigmeister , collector of land and drink tax in the Electorate of Saxony , the Electorate of Saxony , Council of Appeal, Captain of Leipzig and zu Grimma and heir, feudal lord and court lord of Pomßen , Naunhof , Polenz and Ottendorf .

Life

He came from a Meissen noble family (see: Ponickau (noble family) ). Ponickau worked under Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony as an electoral Saxon land and drink tax collector as well as captain in the trade fair city of Leipzig and the princely school town of Grimma and was also an electoral councilor of appeal. He soon entered the service of the emperors, whose counsel and Reichspfennigmeister he became and thus made it into the Holy Roman Empire.

On November 1, 1638, Johann von Ponickau was the Saxon ambassador to the Upper Saxon district council in Leipzig.

He died on March 12, 1642. A week later, a large funeral ceremony was held for him in Leipzig before his body was transported by horse and cart to the hereditary burial of the Ponickau family in Pomßen.

family

Johann von Ponickau was married to Agnes nee Wehse . From this marriage there were three surviving daughters:

  1. Agnes Reiboldt, wife of Hans Christoph von Reibold on Neundorf and Straßberg, chamberlain to the wife of Prince Johann Georg of Saxony,
  2. Dorothea von Pflugk ,
  3. Johanna von Gersdorff, wife of the electoral secret and war councilor Hans Abraham von Gersdorff , captain of the offices of Torgau, Oschatz and Mutzschen, governor of the monastery of Wurzen, and owner of the Kreischau manor with the Vorwerk Görnewitz in the electoral office of Schweinitz .

estate

The estate of Johann von Ponickau is now administered in the Saxon State Archives .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Benedict Carpzov: Newly opened temple of honor of remarkable antiquities of the Marggraffthums Meißen , 1719, p. 183
  2. ^ Estate in the Saxon State Archives
personal data
SURNAME Ponickau, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponickau, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial councilor and Reichspfennigmeister
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersbach / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1642
Place of death Leipzig