Karl Moritz Raugraf zu Pfalz
Karl Moritz Raugraf zu Pfalz (* December 30, 1670 at Friedrichsburg Palace ; † June 13, 1702 in Herrenhausen near Hanover ) was a Raugraf zu Pfalz near the Rhine and lieutenant colonel in Brandenburg .
Life
Karl Moritz was the son of Count Palatine Karl Ludwig bei Rhein and his Morganite wife Marie Luise von Degenfeld , who was awarded the title of Raugräfin by Karl Ludwig, just as their children became Raugrafen or Raugräfin. However, their mother, Marie Luise von Degenfeld, waived all inheritance claims to the Palatinate in the name of her descendants in 1667.
Karl Moritz was also the nephew of Princess Sophie von der Pfalz , who later became Electress in the Electorate of Hanover .
After Karl Moritz's parents had died early - he lost his mother at the age of 6 and his father at the age of 9 - the young Raugraf came to the court of the royal seat of Hanover to see his aunt Sophie.
Karl Moritz von der Pfalz studied at the University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht , read many books and was a versatile and valued conversation partner. Similar to his four older brothers, the rather stunted Karl Moritz sought recognition by participating in military campaigns, initially in 1694 in the Palatinate War of Succession against Louis XVI. After he became lieutenant colonel in the service of Prussia in 1697, he only took part in the Great Turkish War in 1698 , but got around rather lightly in major battles.
At the court of Berlin, the esteemed "little hero" frequented the Electress and later Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte . Karl Moritz, who can philosophize and rhyme, plays the “little slave” for her at her court of muses , to which the Electress also frequently invites Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .
In her letters to her niece Liselotte von der Pfalz , sister-in-law of the French Sun King Louis XIV , Electress Sophie von Hannover complained about the excessive alcohol consumption of her nephew Karl Moritz.
Tomb and extinction of the family name
Karl Moritz zu Pfalz died at the age of only 31 in Herrenhausen. He was buried in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in the Calenberger Neustadt . His grave slab can be found today as an epitaph on the outer wall of the church that was erected on Neustädter Markt .
On the epitaph there is the note "[...] cum quo extincta illustrissima eyus familia", translated "[...] with which his so important family died out." However, the main branch of the Electoral Palatinate family was in the male line with the Elector Karl II. Von der Pfalz , the half-brother of Karl Moritz von der Pfalz, died out in 1685.
literature
- State Bibliography and Baden-Württemberg. European Family Tables , New Series I.1 95
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Compare Degenfeld, Loysa Maria Susanna von, Raugräfin zu Pfalz in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 3 (1957), pp. 559-560; online in the German biography
- ↑ a b c d e f Annette v. Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 13
- ↑ a b c Luigi Castagna , Eckard Lefèvre (ed.), Chiara Riboldi (collaborator): Studies on Petron and its reception (= Studi su Petronio e sulla sua fortuna ) (= contributions to antiquity , vol. 241), Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019488-3 and ISBN 3-11-019488-0 , passim ; Preview over google books
- ↑ Annette v. Boetticher: Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques ... , p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karl Moritz Raugraf zu Pfalz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Raugraf zu Pfalz, Lieutenant Colonel von Kurbrandenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1670 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrichsburg (Mannheim) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1702 |
| Place of death | Herrenhausen before Hanover |