Otto von Hessen-Kassel

Otto, Prince of Hesse-Kassel (1617)

Otto von Hessen-Kassel (born December 24, 1594 in Kassel ; † August 7, 1617 in Hersfeld ) was Hereditary Prince of Hessen-Kassel , administrator of the imperial abbey of Hersfeld and governor of his father in Upper Hesse .

Life

Otto was the eldest son of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel (1572–1632) from his marriage to Agnes (1578–1602), daughter of Count Johann Georg zu Solms-Laubach .

Otto was enrolled at the University of Marburg as a young boy on July 22nd, 1602 . On March 9, 1604 he was appointed coadjutor of the monastery by the last abbot of Hersfeld Abbey , Joachim Röll . Two years later, after Röll's death on February 24, 1606, he took over the administration of the monastery on March 4, 1606 as administrator. This made him the first secular ruler of the secularized principality of Hersfeld. In the same year he finished his studies in Marburg. From October 1608 studies followed in Strasbourg , Basel and Geneva . In 1611 he began a cavalier tour that took him via The Hague , with a reception from Moritz of Orange , to England to the court of King Jacob I and also to Scotland .

In April 1612 he was made military detention , followed by his introduction to Emperor Matthias in Frankfurt am Main and his gradual involvement in the affairs of government in the Landgraviate, beginning with his appointment as colonel of Kassel Fortress and bailiff on the Diemel . In January 1614 - Otto had married on August 24, 1613 - entrusted Landgrave Moritz him with the governorship of Upper Principality , the "Lands on the Lahn" in Marburg and in the same November he sent his father of reaching the for congratulating majority of the guardianship of his mother Maria of Medici , King Louis XIII. to France . During the return journey, he received news of the illness of his heavily pregnant wife Katharina Ursula von Baden-Durlach , who died immediately before his hasty return.

Before Otto married Agnes Magdalena von Anhalt-Dessau for the second time on June 14, 1617 , he probably led a rather dissolute life in Marburg. Ernst Reinhard, born six months after Otto's wedding and four months after his death in Hachborn near Marburg, is visible evidence of this . The princely relatives brought Ernst Reinhard to Kassel, where he was in 1654 from his nephew, Landgrave Wilhelm VI. , The chamberlain was appointed, in 1664 he received from William's widow, who vormundschaftlich for her son Karl ruling Hedwig Sophie , the vacant fief of Hattenbach transferred, was called then Ernst von Had Bach, and served from 1664 until his death in 1694 as Hesse-Kassel Bailiff zu Rodenberg in the county of Schaumburg .

death

During a fever caused by rubella , Otto tried to shoot a barking dog from his sick bed that was annoying to him. The shot went off so badly that he was hit in the left half of the chest and died. He was buried in the Lutheran parish church of St. Marien in Marburg .

Marriages and offspring

Otto married Katharina Ursula (born June 19, 1593 - February 15, 1615), daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden-Durlach, on August 24, 1613 in Kassel . After her death, he married Agnes Magdalena (born March 29, 1590 - October 24, 1626), daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau on June 14, 1617 in Dessau . With the exception of a stillborn daughter from the first marriage, both marriages remained childless.

Otto left a son born out of wedlock and posthumously :

• Ernst (* December 17, 1617; † April 1, 1694), born as Ernst Reinhard, raised to Ernst von Hattenbach, ⚭ 1669 Anna Katharina von Hake († 1707)

literature

• Christian Röth: History of Hessen , p. 255 f.
• Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen , p. 324 ff.
• Wolfgang Eichelmann: "The Reichsabtei Hersfeld and the Landgraviate of Hessen" in Hessian coins and medals ... , p. 98 ff. ISBN 978-3-86991-060-4 ( Google Books )

Web links

• Hessen-Kassel, Otto Landgrave of. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessen-Kassel, Otto Landgraf von. Hessian biography. (As of October 8, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ^ Christoph von Rommel: Modern history of Hessen ; Second volume, Kassel, 1837, p. 332, fn. 60
3. ↑ Peter Unbelief: The Hachborn House. A lost castle in the Marburger Land, in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), Volume 106, 2001 pp. 59–85 (here: 82)
4. ↑ Princely Beylager des… Prince Otthen… and Catharinae Ursulae… Fourier and food list…