Regner Badenhausen

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Regner Badenhausen (born September 30, 1610 in Kassel ; † September 7, 1686 there ) was a German lawyer and from 1685 until his death Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel .

Adolescent years

He was the son of from Grebenstein native Kassel lawyers Philipp Badenhausen (1573-1645) and his wife Elisabeth (1582-1637), daughter of the from the Netherlands originating lawyers, professors and Privy Council Regner Sixtinus (1543-1617). He grew up in Kassel and studied law at the University of Marburg from 1625 to 1627 and then, when it fell to Hessen-Darmstadt in September 1627 , at the Collegium Mauritianum in Kassel.

In 1631 he accompanied his mother's brother, Nicolaus Sixtinus (1585–1669), the secret council of Landgrave Wilhelm V and later President of the Rentkammer , on a diplomatic mission to The Hague and then enrolled at the University of Groningen . He did not return to Kassel until 1633. As a result, he made several longer trips abroad, including a. to France and Vienna.

career

From 1643 at the latest, Badenhausen was a lawyer and diplomat in the service of Landgrave widow Amalie Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel, who was responsible for her underage son Wilhelm VI. exercised the reign . In 1643 he was sent to the Assembly of Reich Deputies in Frankfurt and in 1644 appointed to the Government Council. Together with the court marshal Jakob von Hoff († 1671) he was sent to Sweden in February 1646 , where he remained as a resident until 1650 . In 1652 he represented Hessen-Kassel with the President of the Privy Council Adolph Wilhelm von Krosigk (1609–1657) at the Reichstag in Regensburg , and from 1655 he was the representative of Hessen-Kassel at the Reich Deputation in Frankfurt for eleven years .

From autumn 1655 Badenhausen was involved in the negotiations for the formation of the Rhenish Confederation , which were successfully concluded in August 1658, together with Johann Caspar von Dörnberg (1616–1680) and Sebastian Friedrich Zobel (1617–1671) on behalf of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII . Zobel and Badenhausen (since 1656 Privy Council), the two Hessen-Kassel signatories, only confirmed the Rhine Confederation Treaty and the French Accession Treaty in the fourth week of August, after the French representatives had made a payment of 1,169,434 livres (approx. 400,000 Reichstaler ) had received subsidy payments (plus interest) still outstanding to Hessen-Kassel from previous alliances.

Badenhausen remained in the landgrave's service until his death, entrusted with numerous diplomatic assignments. In 1660 and 1663 he signed the extensions of the Rhine Confederation for Hessen-Kassel, and in 1667 and 1672 the defensive alliances concluded in Braunschweig. He was already 75 years old when he was appointed Chancellor by Landgrave Karl in 1685 . He died a year later, on September 7, 1686.

Marriages and offspring

In 1649 his first wife (1622–1649), daughter of the Kassel lawyer and councilor and royal Swedish privy councilor and envoy Hermann Wolff, died. The marriage was childless. On December 2, 1650 he married Elisabeth († 1676), daughter of the lawyer Reinhard Klein. This marriage had two daughters who both married Kassel Ministeriale:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ From January 1, 1653, he was in command of the Kassel fortress Ziegenhain and senior magistrate of the County of Ziegenhain .
  2. ↑ Hessen-Kassel already belonged to the Hildesheim Alliance, which was founded on February 19, 1652 and was shaped by Protestants, together with Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Sweden (for Bremen and Verden) and later Paderborn.
  3. ↑ August 1667: Defensive Alliance Prussia, Cologne, Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Hessen-Kassel. 1672: Braunweiger alliance between Emperor Leopold I , Prussia, Denmark, Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Hessen-Kassel.

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SURNAME Badenhausen, sprinkler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1686
Place of death kassel