Ludwig III. from Boyneburg-Lengsfeld

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Epitaph of Ludwig von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld in the town church Homberg (Ohm)

Ludwig (III.) Von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld (* 1535 in Lengsfeld , † February 26, 1568 in Homberg (Ohm) ) was a Hessian nobleman and landgrave-Hessian bailiff .

Life

Ludwig was the youngest son of the temporary Hessian court master and guardianship regent Ludwig I of Boyneburg (1466-1537). His mother was his father's second wife, Elisabeth von Meysenbug , daughter of Wilhelm von Meysenbug and Gertrud Eckbrecht von Dürkheim . After the death of his father, he inherited his Hessian possessions in the Felsberg area with Altenburg as the center. Since he was only two years old at the time, he was under the guardianship of his half-brother Georg , who came from his father's first marriage and who ruled Lengsfeld, until he came of ageinherited. Ludwig never lived on the Altenburg, as its residential wing had been plundered and considerably destroyed by a Franconian peasant troop in 1525 during the Peasants' War . Only in Jare 1540 had his guardian Georg rebuilt the two-storey east wing of the palace; the western residential wing remained in ruins. In 1556, Landgrave Philip I renewed the enfeoffment of George and Ludwig III. and their descendants with the Altenburg and its accessories along with all other goods that had fallen back from Heinrich von Holzheim in 1537 .

Ludwig entered the landgrave's service and became a bailiff in Homberg an der Ohm and subsequently also in Borken , first under Landgrave Philip I and then from the division of the Landgrave of Hesse under Philip's son Ludwig IV in Hesse-Marburg in 1567 .

He died in Homberg in 1568. His epitaph is in the tower hall of the local Protestant parish church .

The successor as the owner of the Altenburg was his son Heidenreich . When he was exiled from Hesse in 1594 after having served two years in prison because he had stabbed his friend Friedrich von Baumbach in a dispute in August 1592 , he sold the Altenburg to his younger brother Urban , since 1585 under Landgrave Wilhelm IV von Hesse-Kassel landgrave court marshal and then under Landgrave Moritz Privy Council, 1608 chief bailiff in the Schmalkalden lordship , 1623 war commissioner, 1626 governor on the Werra, 1626 war colonel, 1631–1634 governor of Fulda and finally commander of the Ziegenhain fortress .

Marriage and offspring

Ludwig was married to Anna von Calenberg and had four children with her:

  • Heidenreich († 1612), Hessian court squire, then Holstein Councilor and Oberhofmarschall, ⚭ Ide von Buchwaldt († 1640)
  • Urban (1553–1639), Hessian Privy Councilor, court marshal, governor in Fulda, ⚭ Anna Elisabeth von Beuren
  • Margarethe, ⚭ Kurt von Spiegel zum Desenberg
  • Sebastian (1557-1601)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action?detailid=v3135171
  2. ↑ Ludwig von Boyneburg 1568, Homberg (Ohm). Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Christoph von Rommel: Modern history of Hessen ; Fifth book, main part II. Perthes, Kassel, 1837, p. 452.
  4. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners. Second volume, Luckhard, Kassel, 1833, pp. 194–195.
personal data
SURNAME Boyneburg-Lengsfeld, Ludwig III. from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boineburg, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengsfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1568
Place of death Homberg (Ohm)