Pierre Joseph du Plat

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Pierre Joseph du Plat (born August 11, 1691 in Namur , Belgium , † 1753 in Ratzeburg ) was an electoral Hanoverian officer and cartographer .

Life

He came from the French noble family du Plat and was the son of the eponymous Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657–1709) and the Belgian Helène de Sacrée (1670– ??) from Namur.

Domhof Ratzeburg (1736 by Pierre Joseph du Plat)

Plat, born in his mother's hometown, was a captain in the engineering corps with garrison in Ratzeburg. From 1731 he was stationed there and was entrusted with many mappings in the Duchy of Lauenburg . So he measured u. a. the village of Nüchel, today a district of Malente ( Ostholstein ), and drew its land map .

He married on October 8, 1721 in Löhrstorf ( Schleswig-Holstein ) angel Justina Janus (born September 9, 1700 in Kiel ), the daughter of the Löhrstorf estate manager Christian Janus (1673– ??) and the Hedwig Magarete stamp . The couple had two daughters and eight sons, including Georg Josua du Plat (1722–1795), Hanoverian lieutenant general and cartographer, Peter Joseph du Plat (1728–1782), Hanoverian chief dyke , Johann Wilhelm du Plat (1734–1806), Hanoverian lieutenant general and cartographer, as well as Anton Heinrich du Plat (1738–1795), Hanoverian lieutenant general and cartographer.

literature

  • Family tree Pierre Joseph du Plat, b. on August 11, 1691 , confirmed July 18, 1769 by the Royal, Great British, Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg, 1769
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , series B ( old nobility and letter nobility ), Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1932, page 474

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His father Pierre Joseph was initially royal French Lieutenant of the Guard , but switched in 1697 to the cellische Dragoon - Regiment of Hahn (later Regiment Garde du Corps ) of the Duke Georg Wilhelm of Brunswick-Luneburg and was the progenitor of the Hanoverian officer's family du Plat , from which a number of male offspring distinguished themselves and achieved high positions.
  2. ↑ Personalhistorisk tidsskrift , volumes 63 (1942–1943), Samfundet for Dansk genealogi og personalhistorie, 1942
  3. ^ Castorfer story
  4. ^ Christian Degn: Schleswig-Holstein, a regional history , Verlag Wachholtz, 1994, ISBN 3529052159 or ISBN 9783529052156 , page 112 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Plat, Pierre Joseph you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duplat, Pierre Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cartographer from the Hanover district
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Namur
DATE OF DEATH 1753
Place of death Ratzeburg