Léon d'Ymbault

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Leon d'Ymbault

Léon d'Ymbault de Manthay (also: Leon d'Ymbault , Leon d'Imbault , Leon von Imbolt , Leon Imbo ; * around 1700 in Dragomireşti ; † March / April 1781 in Chernivtsi ) was the last Moldovan mayor of Chernivtsi before the annexation of Bukovina through Austria in 1775 .

origin

Hurmuzachi-Logothetti Palace, Zankovetskaya street corner with main street in Chernivtsi

Léon Ritter d'Ymbault came from the lower noble family of French Knights of Malta Ymbault de Manthay . Nothing is known about his parents. He was born in the then Venetian city of Dragomesti (now Aστακός in the Etolia-Acarnania region ) around 1700. The exact date of birth is unknown.

Career

In the years 1721–1726 Ymbault was trained in the Capuchin monastery in Pera (the European district of Constantinople ). In 1730 he got a job as a drogman (interpreter) at the French embassy there. In 1734 he was sent to Kandia ( Crete ) as an interpreter and to Morea (Peloponnese) in 1735 . His knowledge of Slavic languages ​​determined the further career. In 1739 the Principality of Moldova was temporarily occupied by the Russians. From 1740 Ymbault worked as a drogman in the Moldovan service and undertook various trips to the Slavic neighboring states for the Moldovan rulers. According to the passports in the family archives, he was in Kiev in 1740/41, in Krakow in 1749 and in Sankt-Peterburg in 1769.

May 1757 he became captain of the important border fortress Soroca (now Moldova) and got the title of Mare Paharnic (grand cupid ). In 1768 he was appointed the starost of Chernivtsi , where he built a house near the Paraschewakirche (cadastre Chernivtsi No. 352), which in a later rebuilt version still exists as the Palais Hurmuzachi-Logotheti.

He was replaced by Ilie Herescul during the Russian occupation of Chernivtsi (1771–1773), was then Starosta again in 1773, but is said to have been deposed in the summer of 1773 because of secret contacts with the Austrian General Vincenz von Barco. Whether this is true is not clear, in any case no new starost has been named. After the final decision in 1775 that Bukovina was ceded to Austria, Ymbault had to finally resign from the office of Starost. In 1775, however, he traveled to Sankt-Peterburg, probably in order for his former Mr. Grigore III. Ghica to get help from the Russian court. After Ghica's execution on October 11, 1777, Ymbault withdrew to his estates. He was allegedly not one of the aristocrats who paid homage to the new ruler of Bukovina, Empress Maria Theresa , on October 12, 1777 , even if he continued to be loyal to the new rulers.

On February 19, 1781, Ymbault wrote his will, in which he bequeathed his goods in Ober-Scheroutz (now Горішні Шерівці / Horischni Scheriwzi ) and Waschkoutz (now Вашківці / Waschkiwzi ) to his daughter and their children. When the will was registered on May 30, 1781, his wife was already a widow. Therefore, Ymbault must have died in March or April 1781.

family

Anna Adreanna Vuczin

Ymbault married in 1758, probably in Bucharest , Anna Adreanna Voutsina (Vuczin, Wutschin, 1719-1809) from a Greek Phanariote family . The marriage resulted in a daughter, Ekatarina d'Ymbault, who was born on November 27, 1759 in Bucharest. His daughter married the Greek Jakob Graf Logothetti (1741–1802) from Zakynthos . She died on November 23, 1785. All Romanian, Hungarian, Moravian, Austrian and American descendants of the Countess Logothetti descend from this association .

literature

  • Logothetti family archive 1734-1945 , now: Moravský zemský archiv, Brno, fund G 195.
  • Wilken Engelbrecht: Rod Logothettiů . In: Genealogické a heraldické informace 3, 1998, ISSN  0862-8963 , pp. 17-27.
  • Alina Felea: Cǎteva date despre familia Imbault . In: Tyragetia NS 2 = 17, 2008, ISSN  1857-0240 , pp. 137-140.
  • Raimund Friedrich Kaindel: History of Czernowitz from the oldest times to the present. Festschrift for the sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Sr. Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I and in memory of the first written mention of Chernivtsi 500 years ago . Tscherniwzi, Verlag Selena Bukowyna 2008 (reprint with Ukrainian translation of the Chernivtsi edition, Pardini Verlag 1908).
  • Daniel Werenka: Bucovina emergence and flourishing: Maria Theresa time I . In: Archive for Austrian History 78, 1892, pp. 99–296.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raimund Friedrich Kaindl, History of Czernowitz from the oldest times to the present . Chernivtsi 1908 (Reprint Tscherniwzi, Verlag Selena Bukowyna 2008), p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Ymbault, Léon d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ymbault, Leon d '; Imbault, Léon d '; Imbolt, Leon von; Imbo, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Chernivtsi
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Dragomireşti
DATE OF DEATH March 1781 or April 1781
Place of death Chernivtsi