Ludwig Christian zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

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Ludwig Christian, Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, portrait on a Reichstaler from 1667

Count Ludwig Christian zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (born January 17, 1629 , † January 25, 1683 at Wittgenstein Castle ) was a German Imperial Count from the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein .

Live and act

Ludwig Christian was the eldest son of a total of 18 children of Count Johann VIII zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Hohenstein (1601–1657) and his wife Anna Auguste, née. Countess von Waldeck (1608–1658), daughter of Count Christian zu Waldeck-Wildungen .

After the death of his father in 1657, he became regent of the County of Sayn-Wittgenstein, while his younger brother Gustav inherited the County of Hohenstein , but with the proviso that the sovereignty over Hohenstein initially remained with Ludwig Christian. Ludwig Christian later had this restriction of power over Hohenstein with Lohra and Klettenberg bought from his brother Gustav in return for payment of 20,000 Reichstalers .

Ludwig Christian's reign was marked by a large number of lawsuits and disputes with the neighboring territory, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which mostly affected the Bailiwick of Elsoff in the northeast of the County of Wittgenstein. Ludwig Christian had to buy a later agreement with Hessen-Darmstadt with substantial compensation payments.

Overall, however, Ludwig Christian showed quite early on that he was on the one hand a bad economist and also had little interest in his government business. In 1668 he left the government of the southern county to his younger brother, with the exception of the rights over the bailiwick of Elsoff, which he kept until his death.

family

On May 27, 1656 he married Elisabeth Margarete zu Solms-Greifenstein (* May 23, 1637; † 1681), daughter of Count Wilhelm II. Zu Solms-Greifenstein and his wife Countess Sybille von Solms-Hohensolms, and oldest sister of the ruling Count Wilhelm Moritz zu Solms-Braunfels-Greifenstein .

Coat of arms of the Gelderland noble family Vijgh (Vygh)

His second wife was the reformed noblewoman Anna Elisabeth Vygh (in) (* 1659) from the Netherlands, whom he married in 1682. Both marriages remained childless.

Ludwig Christian died on January 25, 1683 at the age of 54. He was succeeded by his brother Gustav. Because of her unequal origin, the Vygh (Vijgh) were a lower aristocratic family from Gelderland , whose members held the burgrave office of Nijmegen in the 15th and 16th centuries , he did not want to allow his widowed sister-in-law to be Wittum at Schönstein. The widowed countess sued her brother-in-law, Count Gustav zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, for several years from 1688 in order to enforce her rights and the originally guaranteed pension as a widowed countess. The files on the will and death of Anna Elisabeth zu Sayn-Wittgenstein von Schönstein (duration 1731–1737) are at the United Westfälische Adelsarchive e. V.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel : Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , Siegen 1858.
  • Ulf Lückel and Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Dickel: Family table of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein 1907. Plate 10. Unchanged reprint of the 1907 edition, Heimatverlag and Antiquarian Bookshop Angelika Wied. Bad Laasphe 2009, No. 9/100.
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel: Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , Siegen 1858, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Ulf Lückel and Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2004, p. 10.
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel: Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , Siegen 1858, p. 30.
  5. ^ Johann Jacob Moser : Familien-Staats-Recht der Teutschen , Volume 2, 1775, p. 114.
  6. ↑ Simon Vries: De doorlughtige weereld , Volume 2, Amsterdam 1700, p. 155.
  7. ^ David van Hoogstraten and Jan Lodewyk Schuer: Groot algemeen historically, geographically, genealogically, en oordeelkundig Woordenboek , Volume 10, 1733, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Hans Kasper Arkstée: Nymegen, de oude Hoofdstad der Batavieren , Amsterdam 1733, p. 279 f. In the 16th (partly with the title of Ridder ) and 17th centuries, Jonkheeren Vijgh also held the office of judge and lay judge in Tiel . See Egbert Dirk Rink: Beschrijving der stad Tiel , Tiel 1836, p. 311 ff. One of the most outstanding family members was Dirck (Derk) Vijgh (1532–1615), who was nicknamed Koning van Tiel (King von Tiel). In 1578 the Calvinist succeeded his father, Nicolaas (Clais) Vijgh, who had remained Catholic and had been a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece since 1559 , as Lord of Zoelen and bailiff of Neder-Betuwe . In 1579 the governor of Gelderland, Jan van Nassau , appointed him governor of Tiel. See JJMH Verzijl (1933), Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, deel 9: Vijgh, Dirk His very wealthy mother Anna van Gelre was an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Geldern , Karl von Egmond . See BJP van Bavel: Transitie en continuïteit , Hilversum 1999, pp. 203 f. See Geldersche Volks-Almanak , Arnhem 1843, p. 64 ff. See also Gijs Heuff: Van linie en steme Hueff: genealogie van het geslacht Heuff , Hilversum 2008, p. 27.
  9. ↑ Samuel Heinrich Schmid : The Transparent World , 1703, p. 150 ; Compendieuse State Description of the Serene World Circle , 1721, p. 61 ; Johann David Köhler : Historical Coin Amusement , Volume 6, Nuremberg 1734, p. 344.
  10. ^ Georg Melchior von Ludolf : Symphorema Consultationum Et Decisionum Forensium , 1731 ( digitized )
  11. ↑ Permalink
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Ludwig Christian zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German count from the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1629
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1683
Place of death Wittgenstein Castle