Zacharias of Quetz

Zacharias von Quetz (born January 10, 1590 in Elstra , † after 1644) was a German nobleman.

Quetz came from a noble family that had an ancestral home in Quetz near Halle (Saale) until the end of the Middle Ages . He enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1612 . Seventeen years later, on June 29, 1629, Quetz was enrolled at the University of Siena . It can be assumed that this is a stay during the Grand Tour .

From 1630 on, Quetz found himself at home and quickly advanced to the position of district councilor and tutor of Maria Eleonora von Mecklenburg-Güstrow , the widow of Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow . On February 21, 1641, he married Felicitas Stettner von Grabenhoff, daughter of the exile Johann Stettner von Grabenhoff from Weyr, Upper Austria, in Regensburg. The two had at least 1 child.

In 1637 Zacharias von Quetz was admitted to the Fruitful Society . As the name he was the Common awarded and as a motto in food meant for. Quetz's emblem can also be found in the Koethen Society Book under no. 309: Gundermann <Glechoma hederacea L.>. Quetz thanked him for the admission with the following rhyme law:

The green Gunderman is used in food

At the first time of spring, and it is appropriate

Quite a special strength, To clean that blood

At such a time everyone tries to

My usual name is drumb: Whoever lets himself be used

To drive out of the evil, in nothing of the offended,

Particularly brings fruit To use everyone,

That his pound can better be used.

On August 17, 1640, Quetz received the order from Duchess Maria Eleonora to represent, together with Martinus Milagius, their claim to guardianship at the Regensburg Reichstag 1640/41. The Duchess wanted to prevent the Lutheran education of her nephew Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg-Güstrow by Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , but failed. Quetz even went to see Emperor Ferdinand III on this matter . to Vienna , but this also gave a negative decision.

Quetz married Felicitas Stettner on February 21, 1641 in Regensburg . Martinus Milagius celebrated this event with a poem of praise and praise. The friends of Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg and Colonel Georg Hans von Peblis were also present at this private celebration .

Zacharias von Quetz died at the age of about 50.

literature

• The Quetz (Quetsch) - 450 years of the renewal of the coat of arms
• Cäcilie Quetsch: The Quetz (Quetsch). A family story . Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-7686-5098-7
• "The v. Quetzische Hochzeitsbüchlein" printed for the Maximilian Society for the first time from the manuscript. Offenbach am Main, Wilhelm Gerstung, 1913. Marriage report of Ambrosius (January 22, 1526) and Zacharias (February 21, 1641) von Quetz in Nuremberg and Regensburg.