Lebrecht (Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym)
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Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg (born June 28, 1669 in Bernburg ; † May 17, 1727 in Ems ) was the first prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym to found an Ascanian branch line.
Life
Lebrecht was the younger son of Prince Viktor Amadeus von Anhalt-Bernburg (1634–1718) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1642–1677), daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich von Zweibrücken . Lebrecht received a careful upbringing, which ended with the Grand Tour . In 1683 he took part in the Great Turkish War with Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau . In 1689 the troops from Anhalt passed into imperial possession, with them Lebrecht also switched to imperial and later Hessian services. He fought in Hungary and on the Rhine.
In September 1690, Prince Viktor I. Amadeus and Elisabeth Charlotte Melander, Countess von Holzappel-Schaumburg and Princess of Nassau-Schaumburg, signed a marriage contract for their children Lebrecht and Charlotte von Nassau-Schaumburg. With the marriage two years later, the Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym branch line was established. The possessions were initially modest: In 1692 the villages of Belleben and Haus Zeitz flowed from Anhalt holdings, and in 1707 the Hoym office . The Schaumburg shares were limited to Dörnberg and Laurenburg . The right to co-rule in the county of Holzappel , which was directly part of the empire , led to tensions between Prince Lebrecht and his mother-in-law, which could not be resolved until June 1700 with a formal apology from Lebrecht.
Even with his older brother Karl Friedrich , who referred to the Primogeniturordnung in Anhalt-Bernburg, there were repeated disputes about individual territories, which even resulted in military conflicts and the occupation of Hoym.
After the death of his wife in 1700, Prince Lebrecht did not succeed in securing access to her Schaumburg inheritance: the county of Holzappel passed to his eldest son, who in 1707 also inherited the castle and rule of Schaumburg . Lebrecht initially resided at the Schaumburg before moving into Hoym Castle, which was completed that year, as his residence in 1721 .
After the death of his second wife, Lebrecht married Sophie von Ingersleben in 1725 . Since the marriage was not befitting, the Reichshofrat in Vienna forbade her to use the salutation "Your Highness" and the predicate "Princely".
After Lebrecht's death, his eldest son united the Anhalt and Schaumburg possessions and thus formed the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym.
Marriages and offspring
On April 12, 1672, Prince Lebrecht married Charlotte von Nassau-Schaumburg. The following children were born from this marriage:
- Viktor I. Amadeus Adolf (1693–1772), Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
- ⚭ 1. 1714 Countess Charlotte Luise von Isenburg-Birstein (1680–1739)
- ⚭ 2. 1740 Countess Hedwig Sophie Henckel von Donnersmarck (1717–1795)
- Friedrich Wilhelm (1695–1712), killed at Denain during the War of the Spanish Succession
- Elisabeth Charlotte (1696–1754)
- Christian (1698–1720), lieutenant colonel in imperial service, died near Palermo in the war of the Quadruple Alliance
- Viktoria Hedwig (1700–1701)
After the death of his first wife, Lebrecht married Freiin Eberhardine Jacobe von Weede (1682–1724) on June 27, 1702 , who was raised to the rank of imperial count. The couple has the following children:
- Viktoria Sophie (* / † 1704)
- Charlotte Wilhelmine (1704–1766)
- ⚭ 1724 Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1692–1761)
- Johann Georg (1705–1706)
- Joseph Karl (1706–1737)
- Sophie Christine Eberhardine (1710–1784)
- ⚭ Prince Christian of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Neustadt (1700–1749)
- Viktor Lebrecht (1711–1737)
After the death of his second wife, he married Sophie von Ingersleben on September 14, 1725 (* c. 1690; † March 31, 1726). This marriage remained childless.
literature
- Brommer, Peter: The dispute between Prince Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg and his mother-in-law, Princess Elisabeth Charlotte von Nassau-Schaumburg, about government power in 1696, in: Nassauische Annalen 109 (1998), pp. 215–228.
- Beckmann, Johann Christoph: History of the Principality of Anhalt, Zerbst 1710.
- Ferdinand Siebigk: Das Herzogthum Anhalt , p. 241 f., Dessau, 1867
- Studium hallense e. V .: History of Anhalt in data. Contributions to the regional history of Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. III. Hall, 2014.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lebrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1669 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1727 |
| Place of death | Ems |