Ludwig Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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Ludwig Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1598-1643) Unbek. Painter, ca.1625

Ludwig Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born April 20, 1598 at Berleburg Castle ; † June 6, 1643 in Wetter ), a grandson of Ludwig the Elder , was regent of the county of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg from 1631 to 1643 and was marauding Soldiers shot.

Life

Ludwig Casimir was the second oldest son of eight children of the ruling Count Georg V zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1565–1631) and his first wife Elisabeth (1572–1607), the daughter of Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Anna born Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg . Since his older brother Ludwig Albrecht died in 1597, Ludwig Casimir became the Hereditary Count.

Ludwig Casimir and his younger brother Ernst (1599–1649) were sent by their father to study in Geneva . When the plague broke out in Geneva , the two brothers and their prince companion stayed in Lausanne for almost a year and then moved to Geneva. With the death of his father on December 16, 1631, Ludwig Casimir took over the reign of the northern county at the age of 33. Little is known about his further life, only that he was a victim of the uncertain times of the Thirty Years' War . On June 6, 1643 he stayed between Wetter and Cölbe in order to negotiate with the Swedish army commander Hans Christoph von Königsmarck about contribution payments . On this way he was attacked by marauding soldiers, so-called snap cocks , and seriously wounded by two shots. The dying man was brought to Wetter, where the 45-year-old Graf succumbed to his injuries. The exact background for the attack is unclear; it can only be assumed that they thought he was a Swedish rider, that they wanted to kill and rob him. The facts of the chronicler Eberhard Wassenberg already in 1647 with some details in his work of German Florus e been rwähnt, but Wassenberg called the murder victim mistakenly as count of Perleberg .

family

Count Ludwig Casimir married his cousin Elisabeth Juliane (* March 27, 1598 - April 18, 1682), a daughter of Count Wilhelm von Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Erika, on August 26, 1627 at Castle Schwalbach, which belongs to the Nassau family born Countess of Isenburg-Birstein .

The two sons were out of the marriage

  • Georg Wilhelm (born September 28, 1636 - † May 6, 1684) and
  • Philipp Ludwig (born September 24, 1642 - † August 25, 1664).

Ludwig Casimir's widow married her brother-in-law, Georg zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* January 25, 1605, † December 10, 1680) in 1647.

The first son of Ludwig Casimir, Georg Wilhelm, became his father's heir at the age of seven. He was initially placed under the tutelage of his mother Elisabeth Juliane, Count Bernhard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Neumagen (1620–1675) and Count Ludwig Henrich zu Nassau, before he could then take over the regency.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Winckel : From the life of Casimir, formerly ruling Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Verlag HL Brönner, Frankfurt 1842.
  • Erich Neweling: The history of our city . In: Seven Hundred Years of Berleburg , Festschrift for the city anniversary, Berleburg 1958.
  • Erich Neweling: The history of the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein and their country, In: Heimatbuch Wittgenstein, Bd. I, Balve 1965.
  • Gunnar Teske: citizens, peasants, mercenaries and envoys. The Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia in Westphalia . Arday-Verlag, Münster, 1997
  • Ulf Lückel, Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde Verlag, Werl 2004.
  • Eberhard Wassenberg: The German Florus . First edition in Latin. Frankfurt 1635. German-language edition 1647.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The eldest son Ludwig Albert died shortly after his birth: Anno Christi 1597: On July 3rd Herlein Ludwig Albert, Graff Georg zu Witstein's first son, passed away dead from this life. The Berleburger Chroniken of Georg Cornelius, Antonius Crawelius and Johann Daniel Scheffer, Wittgenstein - sheets of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein, supplement 2, edited by Wilhelm Hartnack a. a., Laasphe 1964, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Anno Christ 1598: In May Herlein Casimirus was baptized on the 14th day . In: Berleburger Chroniken , p. 103
  3. ↑ G. Hinsberg: Sayn = Wittgenstein = Berleburg , Volume I, self-published, Berleburg 1920, p. 228: Further evidence for the baptism of Ludwig Casimir.
  4. ↑ Ulf Lückel, Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde Verlag, Werl 2004, p. 8
  5. ↑ Erich Neweling: The history of our city . In: Seven Hundred Years of Berleburg , Festschrift for the city anniversary, Berleburg 1958, p. 32
  6. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Winckel: From the life of Casimir, formerly ruling Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Verlag HL Brönner, Frankfurt 1842, p. 29.
  7. ↑ Gunnar Teske: Citizens, Peasants, Mercenaries and Envoys. The Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia in Westphalia . Arday-Verlag, Münster, 1997, p. 143.
  8. ↑ Ulf Lückel: Nobility and piety. The Berleburg Counts and Pietism in their territories. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2016, p. 39.
  9. ↑ Eberhard Wassenberg: “To the same (note: Königsmarck) Herr Graff von Perleberg had risen and wanted to tract with him for the sake of contribution. When Mr. Graff reached a quarter of a mile from Marpurg / but there were a number of Schnapphanen at the village of Cülb in the forest / watch out / and give away Fewer / in Meynung / that it would be Swedish Reutter: this means that Mr. Graff was so soon formed with 2nd balls was severely wounded / that he did this on the 16th of this in the village of Wetter / 1st mile from Marpurg / on the wound received. "
  10. ↑ The location of the homicide was a forest near Külb / Cülb, today Cölbe. Wassenberg still used the Julian calendar and therefore spoke of June 16, 1643.
  11. ↑ Anno 1627: In that year the high-wolf born Graff Ludwig Casimirus and the high-wolf born Grevin vnd Freulein, Elisabethen Julianen born from Naßaw Sarbrucken, married in Burgschwalbach, but held the Heymführung to Berleburg on August 26th. In: Berleburger Chroniken, page 116
  12. ↑ Family tree of the mediatized house Sayn-Wittgenstein 1907. Plate 5. Unchanged reprint of the 1907 edition, Heimat-Verlag und Antiquariat Angelika Wied, Bad Laasphe 2009, No. 9/100.
  13. ↑ Fürstliches Archiv Berleburg, Ber.A- Acta F 58: Guardianship over the sons of Count Ludwig Casimir who were left behind . 1643 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Ludwig Casimir zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casimir, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent of the County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and was shot by marauding soldiers (1631–1643)
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH at Berleburg Castle
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1643
Place of death in weather