Wilhelm von Schachten

Wilhelm von Schachten (* around 1500; † July 31, 1553 in Kassel ) was Marshal of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and a member of the Regency Council, which was given to Philip's young son, Wilhelm IV. , During Philip's five-year captivity 1547–1552 in the Netherlands.

Wilhelm von Schachten came from an old landgrave Hessian ministerial family , the Lords of Schachten , whose ancestral seat was in the northern Hessian village of Schachten near Grebenstein . He was a grandson of Dietrich von Schachten and his wife Anna von Boyneburg and the son of Georg von Schachten (* around 1480; † 1533) and his wife Dorothea von Reckrodt (* around 1480).

When Landgrave Philipp traveled to Halle in June 1547 to submit to Emperor Charles V , Wilhelm von Schachten - together with Philipp's Chancellor Heinrich Lersner as well as Rudolf Schenk zu Schweinsberg and Simon Bing - became a member of the Regency Council, Philip's son Wilhelm IV and whose mother Christina of Saxony assisted in the administration of the Landgraviate until Philipp returned to Kassel from imperial captivity in September 1552. In the autumn of 1551 Wilhelm von Schachten and Simon Bing were involved as Hessian plenipotentiaries in the negotiations with the French ambassador, Bishop Jean V. von Bayonne , and the representatives of Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg in Friedewald and in the Lochau hunting lodge , which ultimately became the against Kaiser Charles-directed Treaty of Chambord between the Protestant opposition to princes in the empire and King Henry II of France .

Through his marriage to Elisabeth von Schlitz called von Görtz, daughter of Junker Werner von Schlitz, he inherited half of the Schlitz rule . In 1552 he began building the Schachtenburg , an aristocratic seat within the town of Schlitz , which his widow completed in 1557.

On July 9, 1553, in the Second Margrave War , he commanded a contingent of 700 Hessian knights on the victorious Saxon-Brunswick side in the bloody battle of Sievershausen against Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach . He was so badly wounded that he died three weeks later. He was buried in the church of St. Martin in Kassel.

Web links

• http://www.reeg.info/wga19.html#I1825
• Renaissance castles in Hesse: Schachtenburg (Schlitz)

literature

• Eckhard G. Franz, Das Haus Hessen , Kohlhammer Urban, Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-17-018919-0 (p. 49)
• Albert Huyskens: "Is there a treaty from Friedewald from 1551?" In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , New Series, Volume 29, Kassel, 1905 (pp. 74–91)