Ludwig Ernst Marshal

Ludwig Ernst Marschall (born November 18, 1575 in Stuttgart , † June 5, 1652 in Schleusingen ) was Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia , electoral and princely Saxon supervisor and councilor in the ducal county of Henneberg . Since he was co-tenant, but not a co-owner of the parental manor in Herrengosserstedt , he called himself Marshal von Herrengosserstedt .

Life

Ludwig Ernst Marschall comes from the noble family of the Marschalle , who held the hereditary marshal dignity in the Landgraviate of Thuringia and was enfeoffed by the landgraves and later dukes and electors of Saxony. For the first time, a marshal named after the office, i.e. Officium palatinum (= court or service nobility), can be identified in the late 12th century. The first known representative of the family was Marshal Heinrich von Ebersberg, named after Ebersberg Castle in the Harz Mountains . The dignity of the office gradually became the sole family name of the sex.

Ludwig Ernst Marschall is the son of Georg Rudolph Marschall on Herrengosserstedt and Knau, hereditary marshal in Thuringia, imperial war council and colonel over a German regiment on horseback as well as captain of the under-ceded offices of Weida, Arnshaugk and Ziegenrück. In his early youth he took part in his father's battles against the Turks in Hungary . Emperor Rudolf II described his father as an experienced, brave and loyal man, whose death he was sorry for.

Ludwig Ernst Marschall's godfather and namesake was the last count of Henneberg to be prince, Georg Ernst. He attended the rural school in Zwickau and then studied politics and law at the universities of Jena and Cologne . He then took part in the Turkish wars with his father. After the end of the war he went to the court of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxony, the Saxon administrator and guardian at the time. With his support, he celebrated a splendid wedding with Veronica von Wurmb from Heuchelheim on July 13, 1601 at Hartenfels Castle in Torgau . After the marriage, the young couple went to Guthmannshausen , where Ludwig Ernst worked as a private scholar. The brothers Wolf and Ludwig Ernst von Marschall sold the Knau manor in 1603. Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig became aware of him in the same year and appointed him council knight and caretaker to Heydeck. Later he was promoted to council, court judge, cavalry master and caretaker in Burglengenfeld . When, after the death of the Count Palatine in 1614, his successor converted to Catholicism and the Jesuits violently urged Ludwig Ernst Marschall to change his denomination, he retired and moved with his family to the court of Duke Johann Philipp von Sachsen-Altenburg , where he in turn worked as a councilor, court marshal and cavalry master.

After the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony appointed him general sergeant for over 2000 horses in 1623. The following year he was promoted to council and supervisor in the county of Henneberg. He moved to the Franconian Schleusingen , where he worked until his death. His burial took place on August 17, 1652 behind the altar in the Gottesackerkirche in Schleusingen. His funeral sermon appeared in print.

He was married to Veronica geb. Wurmb from Heuchelheim. Her son was Johann Georg Marschall auf Eckertshausen, Bratendorf and Schwarzbach, Anna Catharina born. Hanstein married.

literature

• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , 6th vol., Leipzig 1865, pp. 140 ff.