Peter von Bredahl

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Peter von Bredahl (1771)
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Peter von Bredahl , also Bredal (* approx. 1713 ; † August 28, 1776 in Hamburg ) was a Russian-German court official during the time of the grand ducal .

Life

Peter von Bredahl was a son of the Danish-Norwegian naval officer of the same name in Russian service Peter Bredahl and his wife Blanceflor Sophie, nee. Coucheron, a daughter of the Dutch Quartermaster General Wyllem de Coucheron († 1689) , who was in Danish-Norwegian service .

1724 he came as a Page in the Moscow court of Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorf as this with the Tsarevna Anna Petrovna engaged. Karl Friedrich took him to Holstein in 1727 as a chamber precutter ( écuyer tranchant ). In 1738 he was appointed ducal chief hunter. In 1739, von Bredahl was the official messenger who announced the Duke's death to the court in St. Petersburg. He remained in the service of his son, Duke Karl Peter Ulrich, from 1742 Grand Duke Peter and was “in great esteem for a long time”. In 1745 the Grand Duke sent him to Stockholm to notify the Swedish court of his marriage to Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst , who later became Tsarina Catherine II. At the instigation of Tsarina Elisabeth , he and other Holsteiners had to leave the farm in 1746 . He was deported to the distant but lucrative post of bailiff over the ducal office of Trittau in Holstein.

Since the 1750s he stayed in Petersburg several times and remained a close confidante of Peter. From 1759 to 1762 he was probably permanently in Petersburg. At Peter's accession to the throne as Tsar Peter III. awarded this Peter von Bredahl on January 6, 1762 with the highest order of the Russian Empire, the Order of St. Andrew the First Called . After Peter's fall and murder, he had to leave Petersburg again. Tsarina Katharina gave him the Ulila estate in Livonia , now part of the Elva rural community in Estonia , which he sold in the same year.

In 1764, Grand Duke Paul appointed him as Duke of Holstein-Gottorf as his Minister -Resident at the Lower Saxony Imperial Circle with his residence in Hamburg . In the same year he became bailiff of Reinbek with seat in Reinbek Castle .

family

Peter von Bredahl's first marriage was to Anna Christine, b. from Mengden . In his second marriage he married Christine Anna Benedikta, geb. von Clausenheim (baptized on September 16, 1715 in Hamburg Cathedral ; † December 16, 1782 in Hamburg), a daughter of the Gottorfische Privy Councilor Matthias von Clausenheim . Peter eldest of Bredahls son, who again was called Peter, was given as a minor in 1758 to award the Duke the Holstein distinct prebend in Lübeck cathedral chapter , but died the following year in 1759. His stipend was awarded to Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff . Another son, Carl August Bredahl (born November 14, 1745 in St. Petersburg) later became a Danish conference councilor; one daughter, Hedwig Maria Margaretha (baptized July 25, 1757 in Hamburg; † 1811), married the Danish chamberlain Adam Mogens Holger von Lüttichau (1742–1807) in 1778 .

Awards

In 1739 von Bredahl was Ordens-Secretarius of the Annenordens

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 63 years old , Hildegard von Marchtaler : Nobles and notables of the Nordic empires, especially of the entire Danish state, in Hamburg church registers. In: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 71 (1950), pp. 98–112 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Albert de Boor: directories of grand princely officials in Holstein. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 32 (1902), pp. 137–176, here p. 156
  3. ^ Georg Adolf Wilhelm von Helbig: Biography of Peter the Third. Tübingen: Cotta 1808, p. 25
  4. ↑ According to the church book of the Lutheran Saint Petri Church (Saint Petersburg) , see History of the Evangelical Lutheran communities in the Russian Empire. 1776, p. 94
  5. ^ Leonhard von Stryk : Contributions to the history of the manors of Livonia. First part, The Estonian District with four maps. . C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1877, p. 514 lk. lk.15
  6. ↑ So after the entry in the Erik Amburger database
  7. ↑ Hildegard von Marchtaler : Nobles and notables of the Nordic empires, in particular of the entire Danish state, in Hamburg church registers. In: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 71 (1950), pp. 98–112 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the Canon. In: Ders .: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 413 No. 377
  9. ^ Contributions to the family history of the lords, barons and counts of Lüttichau. , P. 204
  10. ↑ Genealogical and historical news of the very latest events that are taking place at the European courts. Leipzig 1739, p. 702
personal data
SURNAME Bredahl, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bredal, Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German court official in the grand ducal era
DATE OF BIRTH around 1713
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1776
Place of death Hamburg