Lothar Johann Karl von Bettendorf
Lothar Johann Karl Freiherr von Bettendorf (born September 4, 1674 (baptism date) in Mainz ; † May 16, 1745 ibid) was an imperial lord in Falkenstein and Niederhofheim and Kurmainzer grand court master , ambassador and senior magistrate in Königstein im Taunus .
Life
Lothar Johann Karl Freiherr von Bettendorf came from the Mainz branch of the von Bettendorf family . He was the third child and the first son of the Friedberg burgrave and Königsteiner Oberamtmann Adolf Johann Karl von Bettendorf (1640–1705) and his first wife Maria Margarethe chamberlain von Worms, baroness von Dalberg. Elector Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid was godfather.
On May 21, 1708 he married Countess Marie Sophie von Stadion , the daughter of the Kurmainzer Privy Councilor and Grand Court master Johann Philipp Graf von Stadion and Thannhausen (1652–1741) and his wife Maria Anna Countess von Schönborn. The father-in-law, who was elevated to the rank of imperial count with a diploma on December 1, 1705, had become an inheritance of the Principality of Augsburg in May 1708.
The marriage consolidated the strong position of the Bettendorf family. As heir to his father, who died in 1705, Lothar Johann Karl Freiherr von Bettendorf was head of the Mainz branch of his family, imperial knight and hereditary imperial baron. He had possessions in Franconia and the Rheingau . The inherited rule over the castle and village of Falkenstein was more important under constitutional law than the Nassau-Weilburg fiefdom .
1708 he succeeded to the princely sum of 15,000 Reichstalern place Niederhofheim purchase of Nassau-Weilburg. Niederhofheim was imperial knighthood and thus imperial direct territory. As sovereign he called himself "Lord in Falkenstein and Niederhofheim".
With the death of his father he became Oberamtmann in the Königstein office and remained in this position for 44 years until his death.
More important was his career at court in Mainz. There he succeeded his father-in-law as Grand Chamberlain. In 1717 he went to Versailles as the Kurmainzer envoy to the French court .
progeny
His eldest son Lothar Franz Melchior Philipp Freiherr von Bettendorf (1709–1768) (his godfather was Elector Anselm Franz von Ingelheim ) became canon of Mainz, Würzburg and Worms, capitular of the knightly monastery of St. Albanus, provost of the collegiate monastery of St. Johann and privy councilor of Elector in Mainz and the Prince-Bishop in Würzburg.
His second son (the penultimate of a total of 7 children) Johann Philipp Freiherr von Bettendorf (1718–1773) became his heir as sovereign and successor as chief bailiff.
The third daughter, Maria Sophie Charlotte (* 1714) married General Ludwig von Coudenhoven from Mainz . Their daughter, Sophie von Coudenhoven (1747–1825), was a confidante of the Elector of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, who had political influence.
literature
- Friedrich Stöhlker: The Kurmainzer Oberamtmen in Königstein (1581–1781); in: Heimatliche Geschichtsblätter, Königstein im Taunus, 1957, issue 4, pp. 57–60
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bettendorf, Lothar Johann Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bettendorf, Lothar Johann Karl Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Oberamtmann in Königstein and Grand Chamberlain in Kurmainz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1674 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1745 |
| Place of death | Mainz |