Kaspar von Schöneich

Kaspar von Schöneich , also Caspar († October 1547 ) was a chancellor of the dukes of Mecklenburg .

Life

Lucas Cranach the Elder : Coat of arms of Caspar von Schöneich

Grave slab of Kaspar von Schöneich and his wife in the Johanniter Church in Groß Eichsen

Kaspar von Schöneich came from the noble family Schönaich from the Lower Lusatian nobility and came as a cousin of the Mecklenburg Chancellor Brandanus von Schöneich in 1503 as an envoy in the service of the Mecklenburg dukes. As a diplomatic agent, he conducted negotiations at the imperial court. After the death of his cousin Brandanus in 1507 he became chancellor of the dukes Balthasar , who died in the same year, and Heinrich V (1479–1552), later also for Duke Albrecht VII the Handsome (1486–1547).

Heinrich and Albrecht initially ruled jointly, although Albrecht repeatedly advocated a division of the country. In the Neubrandenburg house contract of May 7th, 1520 it was stipulated that Heinrich should rule in Schwerin and Albrecht in Güstrow . The domanium was divided into two halves, the monastery property and the cities remained under joint government. This led to continued disputes between the brothers and in 1526 to the end of Schöneich's chancellorship for Duke Albrecht. Schöneich remained Chancellor Heinrichs until the end of his life. In recognition of the services rendered, Kaspar von Schöneich was awarded the property of Schönfeld (now part of Mühlen Eichsen ), Seefeld, Santow ( Grevesmühlen ), Wieschendorff ( Dassow ) and parts of Webelsfelde (Mühlen Eichsen) and Wüstenmark ( Testorf-Steinfort) ) enfeoffed. By becoming part of the knighthood, he was one of the signatories of the Union of Estates , which was concluded on August 1, 1523 .

Under Kaspar von Schöneich, the process begun by his cousin and predecessor to introduce the early New High German (imperial) office language in the previously Low German Mecklenburg came to a successful conclusion.

He owned at least one of the early portable watches ( pocket watches ) by Peter Henlein , as is clear from the correspondence between Schöneich and Henlein, which has been preserved in the Schwerin State Archives .

Schöneich was married to Elsa von Parkentin and was buried with her in the Johanniter Church in Groß Eichsen . His son Balthasar von Schöneich put a stone coat of arms epitaph and the common grave plate for his parents in the church. Friedrich Schlie reports on another coat of arms of Kaspar von Schöneich, which was in the collection of the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin in 1898 . This Renaissance work reminded him of the bronze work of Peter Vischer (namely his grave slab for Princess Helene of Mecklenburg in Schwerin Cathedral) and he suspected that it, together with the Renaissance altar in the museum's collection, might originally have been part of the furnishings in the Schwerin Palace Chapel.

literature

Karl Ernst Hermann Krause : Schöneich, Kaspar von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 287 f.
Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, Kirchdorf Gross-Eichsen p. 493 ff. (Pp. 500–501.), ISBN 3-910179-06-1 .
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8961 .

Web links

Commons : Kaspar von Schöneich - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Kaspar von Schöneich in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Paul Steinmann: Popular dialect and written language in Mecklenburg: Adoption of the High German written language in the 15th / 16th. Century (continuation and conclusion to Jahrbuch 100 pp. 199/248) In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 101 (1937), pp. 157-238 ( full text ).
↑ Peter Starsy: A letter from Kaspar von Schöneich to Peter Henlein. In: Uhren und Schmuck ISSN 0041-5847 22 (1985), 1/2, pp. 23-27, 54-56.
↑ State Main Archives Schwerin, 2.12-1 / 23 Correspondence of the dukes with councilors and other officials, No. 3368.
^ Index card Pl 256 (1961): badly destroyed , probably lost. Illustration by Friedrich Schlie: The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, Kirchdorf Gross-Eichsen p. 493 ff. (Pp. 500–501.), ISBN 3-910179-06-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schöneich, Kaspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schöneich, Caspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chancellor of the Dukes of Mecklenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH	October 1547

[1] Paul Steinmann: Popular dialect and written language in Mecklenburg: Adoption of the High German written language in the 15th / 16th. Century (continuation and conclusion to Jahrbuch 100 pp. 199/248) In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 101 (1937), pp. 157-238 ( full text ).

[2] Peter Starsy: A letter from Kaspar von Schöneich to Peter Henlein. In: Uhren und Schmuck ISSN 0041-5847 22 (1985), 1/2, pp. 23-27, 54-56.

[3] State Main Archives Schwerin, 2.12-1 / 23 Correspondence of the dukes with councilors and other officials, No. 3368.

[4] Index card Pl 256 (1961): badly destroyed , probably lost. Illustration by Friedrich Schlie: The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, Kirchdorf Gross-Eichsen p. 493 ff. (Pp. 500–501.), ISBN 3-910179-06-1 .