Maximilian Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg
Maximilian Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (* December 13, 1666 at Iburg Castle ; † (also July 26) July 16, 1726 in Vienna ) was Prince of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Imperial Field Marshal . His older brother became King of Great Britain as George I. Three other brothers, Friedrich August, Karl Philipp and Christian Heinrich died as soldiers.
Life
He was the third son of Ernst August and Sophie von der Pfalz . When the House of Hanover decided in 1684 to move from the division of the estate to the primogeniture , the 17-year-old did not resist; However, after his two brothers Friedrich August and Karl Philipp were killed in the Great Turkish War on December 31, 1690 , he planned - together with his second youngest brother Christian Heinrich, to contest their exclusion from the succession. They turned to the senior of the Welfenhaus, Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig , and to the Prussian Minister Eberhard von Danckelman . When the father, Elector Ernst August, was informed of this by his daughter Sophie Charlotte of Prussia the following year , he had Maximilian Wilhelm arrested and charged with high treason; the court hunter who was conspiring with him, Joachim von Moltke, was executed and he himself banished the following year. He sought support from his uncle George William of Lüneburg , in the service of Emperor him I. Leopold mediated.
Although brought up as a Protestant Lutheran, Maximilian Wilhelm converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1692. In 1697 Maximilian Wilhelm took part in the Palatine War of Succession as head of an imperial cuirassier regiment under the troops of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden (1655–1707) in the procession to conquer the Ebernburg near Kreuznach .
He rose to field marshal and was leader of the electoral Hanoverian troops in the War of the Spanish Succession . In the second battle near Höchstädt in 1704 he was the commander of the cavalry under Eugene of Savoy .
Like his brother Ernst August , Duke of York and Albany, he never married and had no children. In contrast to the latter, however, he did not receive any English titles from the oldest brother, Georg I. He died a year before this in 1726 in Vienna.
Web links
- List of brothers and sisters
- Letter from Eugen to Maximilian
- Field Marshal Maximilian Wilhelm Hanover on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicholas Rescher , On Leibniz : Expanded Edition, 2013. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0822978148 .
- ↑ Cf. Georg Schnath, Adolf Köcher: History of Hanover in the Age of the Ninth Cure and the English Succession 1674-1714 , Vol. II. A. Lax, Hildesheim, Leipzig 1976, pp. 249 and 511; Vol. IV. A. Lax, Hildesheim, Leipzig 1982, p. 579.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Maximilian Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maximilian Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soldier, Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Imperial Field Marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iburg Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1726 |
| Place of death | Vienna |