Michael von Brunnow

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Coat of arms of the Brünnow family

Michael von Brunnow (also Brünnow ; * around 1520 ; † 1583 ) was Polish minister and later ducal chancellor in the Duchy of Courland and Zemgale .

Life

Before his relocation to Courland , Brunnow had been entrusted with an embassy in 1564 as royal Polish minister by King Sigismund II August (1520–1572) , which led him to Pomerania . After moving to Courland, he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Courland in 1560 and had been a member of the Duchy's Supreme Council as Senior Councilor and Chancellor since 1566 . In the government of Duke Gotthard Kettler (1517–1587) he was, after the Landhofmeister , the second highest plenipotentiarius (authorized representative) in the duchy. In 1570 a church reform was worked out in the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia on the orders of Duke Gotthard and based on Brunnow's authoritative draft , and it was put into print in the same year.

Family and offspring

Michael von Brunnow came from the aristocratic family Brünnow from the rear of Pomerania , which after the division into a Pomeranian and Kurland line in Kurland spelled itself "Brunnow". His parents were the heir to Quatzow and Pöppeln Augustin von Brünnow († after 1552) and Mechel von Wolden . He is considered to be the founder of the Courland branch and had property in Courland since 1569 . Three sons are known from his marriage to Margarethe von Fürstenberg .

  • Gotthard von Brunnow auf Weesen, ⚭ 1576 NN Dollert
  • Michel von Brunnow on Würzau († before 1635), ⚭ Elisabeth von Grotthuss († 1620)
  • Dietrich von Brünnow († after 1613)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhart Jähnig : Constitution and Administration of the Teutonic Order and its Rule in Livonia , Volume 16 of Writings of the Baltic Historical Commission , LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 3643110057 , p. 252.
  2. ^ Archives for the history of Liv, Estonia and Curland, volumes 1–3, Estonian Literary Society, Verlag F. Kluge, 1842, p. 184.
  3. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description. Leipzig 1855, Volume 2, p. 72.
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke: General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 1, Verlag JF Steffenhagen and Son, 1827, p. 484.
  5. ↑ Michael v. Bronnow.
personal data
SURNAME Brunnow, Michael von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish minister and later ducal chancellor in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
DATE OF DEATH 1583