Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim

Maria Caroline Charlotte Sophie Freiin von Ingenheim (born August 2, 1704 in Wanfried ; † May 27, 1749 in Munich ) was a baroness and favorite of the later Elector or Emperor Karl Albrecht of Bavaria , with whom she had two children, a. a. a son who founded the noble family of Counts von Holnstein from Bavaria .

origin

She was the daughter of Daniel von Ingenheim and his wife Maria Anna Johanna von Hessen-Wanfried. The father came from Metz , had fled to Germany as a noble Huguenot , worked as stable master for Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Wanfried and had married the daughter of his new employer, the Count von Hessen-Wanfried . He was made a baron and converted to his wife's Catholic religion when he married. The couple lived mainly in Erfurt .

Life

Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim went to Munich as a court lady in 1719 . Her maternal uncles were Landgrave Christian von Hessen-Wanfried and the princes Dominik Marquard zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort and Franz II. Rákóczi . Her brother Karl Wilhelm von Ingenheim had also been a page at the Munich court since 1717 .

She very quickly became the favorite of the elector prince and later elector or emperor Karl Albrecht of Bavaria . From the liaison a daughter emerged in 1720, who later led the name Maria Josepha comtesse de Hochenfels de Bavière and in 1736 married the general and half-brother of her father, Emmanuel-François-Joseph Comte de Bavière (1695-1747). In 1723, the son Franz Ludwig von Holnstein (1723–1780), ancestor of the noble family of the same name, who was later raised to count, followed as another child . The electoral prince built the later Palais Holnstein , today the Archbishop's Palace in Munich, for him. His son, Count Maximilian Joseph von Holnstein (1760–1838), governor of the Upper Palatinate , married Karoline von Bretzenheim (1768–1786), an illegitimate daughter of Elector Karl Theodor of Palatinate and Bavaria , in 1784 .

In 1723 Maria Caroline Charlotte married the electoral chamberlain and later chief kitchen master and field marshal lieutenant, Count Hieronymus von Spreti, in agreement with Karl Albrecht . With him she had 14 children in 26 years of marriage.

Maria Caroline Charlotte von Spreti b. von Ingenheim died in 1749, her husband in 1772. Both were buried in the Franciscan monastery of St. Antonius in Munich. The Bavarian National Theater is located there today . Her epitaphs came in 1802, when the convent was demolished, in the branch church of the Birth of Mary in Hebertshausen-Unterweilbach . In the castle chapel of Unterweilbach there are still stucco cartouches with the Ingenheim coat of arms on the walls, which were given to the co-owner Maria Caroline Charlotte von Spreti, née. von Ingenheim should remember.

Maria Theresia von Spreti (1746–1818), one of her daughters, was married to Major General Andreas Anton von Capris (1716–1776), whose epitaph is on the outside of the Frauenkirche in Munich , as is the damaged epitaph of Maria Caroline Charlotte's brother Karl Wilhelm von Ingenheim.

Major General Maximilian von Spreti (1766-1819) was her grandson.

literature

Franz F. Nöhbauer: The Wittelsbacher: a German chronicle, a European dynasty , Verlag Scherz, 1979, p. 217; (Detail scan)
Thomas Barth: Noble ways of life in the Old Reich: the landed gentry of the Upper Palatinate in the 18th century , Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 2005, ISBN 379171967X , p. 186; (Detail scan)
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 8, p. 576 u. 577; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Website on Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim
^ Website on Holnstein
↑ Chenaye-Desbois et Badier: Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, 1863, column 593; (Digital scan)
^ Benno Ortmann: History of the old noble house of Spreti origin and Fortblüthe in Ravenna and Bavaria , Nuremberg, 1806, p. 80; (Digital scan)
^ Website in the "Upper Palatinate Network" on the von Spreti family
^ Website of the Franciscan Monastery of St. Antonius
↑ Benno Ortmann: History of the old noble house of Spreti origin and Fortblüthe in Ravenna and Bavaria , Nuremberg, 1806, p. 87; (Digital scan)
^ Website of the Unterweilbach church with photos of the tombstones
↑ Website for the Unterweilbach Castle Chapel, with a photo of the coat of arms (almost at the bottom of the page)

personal data
SURNAME	Ingenheim, Maria Caroline Charlotte from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ingenheim, Maria Caroline Charlotte Sophie von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian lady-in-waiting, lover of Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1704
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1749

[1] Website on Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim

[2] Website on Holnstein

[3] Chenaye-Desbois et Badier: Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, 1863, column 593; (Digital scan)

[4] Benno Ortmann: History of the old noble house of Spreti origin and Fortblüthe in Ravenna and Bavaria , Nuremberg, 1806, p. 80; (Digital scan)

[5] Website in the "Upper Palatinate Network" on the von Spreti family

[6] Website of the Franciscan Monastery of St. Antonius

[7] Benno Ortmann: History of the old noble house of Spreti origin and Fortblüthe in Ravenna and Bavaria , Nuremberg, 1806, p. 87; (Digital scan)

[8] Website of the Unterweilbach church with photos of the tombstones

[9] Website for the Unterweilbach Castle Chapel, with a photo of the coat of arms (almost at the bottom of the page)