Siegmund von Peterswald

Siegmund von Peterswald (*? At Proboschowitz Castle , Duchy of Oels ; † before 1651 ) was a German court official.

Life

Peterswald came from an old Silesian noble family . According to the current state of research, very little is known about his life. He was enrolled at the University of Leipzig from the summer semester of 1614 ; the following year he moved to the University of Marburg . He then attended the Collegium Mauritianum in Kassel , which Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel reformed from his page school and converted into a modern knight academy in 1618 . Peterswald made a name for himself there in 1618 when he published his Virtutis et Consiliis Palaestram , the answer to a work by his employer, the Landgrave, and probably a thank you for his appointment to the Privy Council at the court in Kassel.

In 1624 Peterswald was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . The prince gave Peterswald the company name of Sharpsperson and the motto when he stirred . Wild Cummer <Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. Rich.> Was given to him as an emblem .

After the dynasty of the von Hattenbach family died out in 1626, Peterswald was enfeoffed with their fallen fiefs from the castle and village of Hattenbach along with considerable accessories in and around Frielingen . In 1626 and 1644, Peterswald was declared to be the Princely Hessian councilor and bailiff in Hersfeld , Friedewald and Vacha .

Peterswald seems to have died in 1651 at the latest, because in that year the Hattenbach fiefdom fell to Landgrave Wilhelm VI. or was bought back by him.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Holger Th. Gräf: The Kassel court school as an interface between the scholarly republic and international Calvinism. P. 27, fn. 59
2. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: Modern history of Hessen. First volume, Kassel, 1835, pp. 405–406
3. ↑ Document: Document 56 (773-1743) (old: MI Reichsabtei Hersfeld) 2138 in the European document archive Monasterium.net .