Moritz (Saxony-Lauenburg)

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Moritz von Sachsen-Lauenburg (* 1551 ; † November 2, 1612 in Buxtehude ) was a duke of Sachsen-Lauenburg .

Life

Moritz was the fourth surviving son of Duke Franz I of Saxony-Lauenburg (1510–1581) from his marriage to Sibylle (1515–1592), daughter of Duke Heinrich of Saxony . Magnus followed his father in joint government with his two older brothers Franz II and Magnus II in Saxony-Lauenburg. After the imprisonment of his brother Magnus in 1588, he ruled alone with Franz. The Lauenburg family was considered quarreling and heavily indebted, the court as dissolute.

Moritz married Katharina von Spörcken zu Dahlenburg, a servant of his brother's wife , on November 25, 1581 . His brother Franz wrote about this mesalliance that it “ polluted the whole house of Saxony ”. Moritz, who consistently demanded more money from his brother as well as the land of Hadeln and the Klempow and Osterhof monasteries, soon turned to his lover Gisela " Gysel " Saxony, who came from an illegitimate relationship of his great-grandfather Johann . He finally disowned his wife Katharina after barely a year of marriage after Gisela publicly referred to her as the duke's whore and urged street boys to throw feces at Katharina. In the Escheburg Treaty of May 31, 1582, Duke Moritz had already declared that he repented his marriage to Katharina and that he wanted to break away from her. This made his brother Franz weighed him in, who then, in addition to the annual allowance promised in the Dresden settlement, granted him a residence in Büchen as well as a further contribution in kind.

Moritz's mother Sibylle and Duke Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , on the other hand, implored him to return to his wife. Duchess Sibylle initiated a witch trial against Gysel Sachsen and her husband Adam Tschammer because of coupling and the use of magic drugs in the separation of Moritz 'marriage. Moritz then withdrew from the Lauenburger Hof and entered the Dutch military. The Hadelner income was granted to him and he died unreconciled with his brother, leaving enormous debts to his lover Gisela Tschammer in Buxtehude, who had given him two sons out of wedlock, Moritz and the later composer Julius Ernst Rautenstein .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Menzel: History of the Germans up to the newest days , Cotta, 1843, p. 713
  2. ↑ Archive volumes, annual volume 1898
  3. ↑ Christopher von Warnstedt, Die von Rautenkrantz, von Rautenstein and von Sachsen, extramarital lateral lines of the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg , in: Lauenburgische Heimat (1979), pp. 1-15, Ascania , Ernst-Ludwig Gerber, New historical-biographical dictionary der Tonkünstler, 1813, p. 803
predecessor Office successor
Franz I. Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg
1581–1612 		Francis II
personal data
SURNAME Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz von Sachsen-Lauenburg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1551
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1612
Place of death Buxtehude