Mehmet von Königstreu

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Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu;
Oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller , Barsinghausen Abbey

The noble family Mehmet von Königstreu goes back to Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu .

The forefather

  • Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu was born around 1660 as the son of the Turkish governor of Koroni ( Peloponnese ) and was captured as a captured Turk in 1685 when the fortress there was captured during the Turkish Wars . He came to the court of the Elector of Hanover , converted to Christianity and worked there as a valet . On April 13, 1706 he married the 15-year-old Maria Hed (e) wig Wedekind (* 1691; † 1729), daughter of the citizen Hans Wedekind and his wife Sophia Hedwig, born von Soden in the castle church . In 1716, at the instigation of George I , he was raised to hereditary imperial nobility by the emperor as "von Königstreu" . In 1723 he received the house at Schmiedestraße 30, the old town bailiwick, as a gift. Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu died on November 1st, 1726 in London .

Descendants

Tomb slab erected on the outer wall of St. Petri Church in Hanover-Döhren (rebuilt in 1949) for Johann Ludewig Mehmet von Königstreu (1709–1775)
  • The eldest son Johann Ludewig Mehmet von Königstreu (* 1709) died in 1775; his grave slab can be found today on the north wall of the tower of St. Petri in Hanover-Döhren .
  • Georg Ludwig Mehmet von Königstreu (* 1720) founded the Freemason Lodge Friedrich on January 21, 1746 . He served as a captain in the Garde Grenadier Corps on horseback and died in the war at the age of 32 in 1752.
  • The eldest daughter Sophie Caroline Mehmet von Königstreu († 1758) was married to Georg August von Wangenheim for the second time . Her son Georg Philipp Wilhelm von Wangenheim was Lieutenant General of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Chief of the 4th Cavalry Regiment and Lord of Sonneborn .

Portrait pictures

In Kensington Palace a mural has been preserved:

  • Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu (around 1714)

The following portraits have been preserved in the Barsinghausen Monastery :

  • Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu, painted by the court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller
  • Marie Hedwig Wedekind , his wife, also painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller
    • Johann Ludwig Mehmet von Königstreu (1709–1775), son
    • Georg Ludwig Mehmet von Königstreu as a student (1720–1752), son
    • Georg Ludwig Mehmet von Königstreu as a soldier (1720–1752), son
    • Sophie Caroline Mehmet von Königstreu, daughter
    • Johann Conrad Mohr, her first husband
      • Maria Carolina Mohr, granddaughter
    • Georg August von Wangenheim, her second husband
      • Georg Philipp Wilhelm von Wangenheim, grandson
      • Sophie Charlotte von Wangenheim, granddaughter
      • Anna Louise von Wangenheim, granddaughter

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Ewig: Portrait pictures of Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu and his descendants in the Barsinghausen Monastery (published by the Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV - Barsinghausen group), Barsinghausen 1993, ISBN 3980348946 and ISBN 9783980348942
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Hanoverian portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , illustr. v. Rainer Ossi Oswald, Hanover 1983, p. 47ff.
  • Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover , 2 volumes, volume 1 From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century . Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9
  • German Gender Book , Volume 187 (17th Lower Saxony Volume), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1982
  • Klaus Mlynek: Königstreu, Mehmet von, Ludwig Maximilian. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 359.
  • ders .: Königstreu, Mehmet von, Ludwig Maximilian as an excerpt from the Stadtlexikon Hannover in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 6, 2009, last accessed on October 10, 2011
  • New patriotic archive, or contributions to the general knowledge of the Kingdom of Hanover as it was and is , p. 98ff, long-distance message from Hanoverian families of Turkish descent digitized
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae, Chronicle of the royal seat of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , p.195

Web links

Commons : Mehmet von Königstreu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trauerode on Maria Hedwig Mehmet von Königstreu born. Wedekind. Hanover 1729, in the archive of funeral sermons of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives
  2. ↑ German Gender Book, Volume 187, p. 500 (Wedekind zur Horst family)
  3. ↑ History of the Freemason Lodge "Friedrich zum white horses" , accessed on May 10, 2010