Madeleine et Jean Horguelin
Horguelin Jean (1682-1745), banker à Wroclaw
Horguelin son of Jeremiah, bourgeois
Chalons en Champagne, and Marie Cadet, wife Madeleine Horguelin
Breslau, daughter of Peter and Horguelin
Madeleine Head of Hostel.
Trip to Poland Marie Charlotte Sobieska, 1735.
Sobieska Mary Charlotte (1697-1740), daughter of Jacques Sobieski (and granddaughter of John Sobieski, king of Poland), first married (1723) Frederic de la Tour d'Auvergne, Prince de Turenne, and second marriage (1724) Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon (brother of the above), including two children: Marie Louise (1725) and Henry (1728).
In September 1735, Mary Charlotte embarks on a journey to Poland to visit his father at the Castle Zolkiev Galicia. It must go through Breslau. The Duke of Bouillon load bankers Horguelin (John Abraham and his cousin) cash advances and dispatch of correspondence. The Bacqueville Knight, governor of the Duchy of Bouillon, is part of the trip. He wrote to the Duke in October 1735 for telling it how to route mail:
"Always go by the letters to Mr. Richer Horguelin gentlemen, or, my lord, Escriva uprightly in Holland at the address below to Messrs. John and David Melkeren van Amsterdam then (the letters) will go to Gentlemen Horguelin Breslau. (1)
April 22, 1736, it is the "Horguelin" who write to the Duke of Bouillon:
"In accordance with the orders that your Highness gives us the letter she gave us the grace to write the 19th March, we will provide care to Mr. Knight Bacqueville money as may be necessary, and we accommodate the term tells us that Your Highness Estre him the fittest. " (2)
The Voyage of the Princess of Auvergne, 1736.
In May 1736, Marie Louise de la Tour d'Auvergne, daughter of the Duke of Bouillon and Mary Charlotte Sobieska, in turn makes the trip from Poland. She is 11 years old.
On 27 May, Jean Horguelin wrote the Duc de Bouillon, "When Your highness girl arrives (Breslau), we will have an honor and a pleasure to lend our attention in order to facilitate the continuation of his trip and show him in all respects our eagerness for his service. " (3)
The next letter is dated July 8: "My lord, here included Mr Bacqueville to Your Highness that marks the safe arrival of Madame la Princesse d'Auvergne
with his retinue. Mr. Bourgeois has given us the letter that you have given us the honor, Sir, to write to us and, in accordance with your orders, we will provide them with pleasure
money as may be necessary, both for the continuation of the journey to its return wherewith Your Highness will be informed in time. "(4)
The death of Marie Charlotte Sobieska, 1740.
Jacques Sobieski died at Castle Zolkiev December 18, 1737 at the age of 70. Marie Charlotte
Sobieska, his daughter, died in the same place, May 8, 1740 at the age of 42 years. His heirs are young daughter Marie Louise, who 15 years, and his son Henry, aged 12. Their father, the Duke of Bouillon, is repatriating their inheritance at the Chateau de Navarre in Normandy. The Knight and Jean Bacqueville Horguelin collect furniture and other effects in Breslau, then ship them by sea to the port of Rouen. The invasion of Silesia by Frederick II of Prussia 16 December 1740, does not make things easier.
October 5, 1740, Mr. Linnet, steward of the Hotel de Bouillon in Paris, told the duke Eustace arrived with the furniture and effects in Breslau where he deposited them in M. Horguelin and that the respect of china, Mr. Horguelin the must carry two or three days in a ship for France. (5)
November 14, wrote to Mr. Jean Horguelin Linnet, "I expect you'll notice in Strasbourg on the expedition of eleven bales Rouen to Le Havre. I expect my next news on this expedition of Hamburg, although I have written, in order of the Chevalier de Bacqueville that if they heard any rupture between France and England, that keeps the sayings in Strasbourg effects rather than expose them to the sea skimmers. (6)
February 22, 1741, wrote to Mr. M. Linnet Bacqueville "We finally have news that the ship arrived from Hamburg to Le Havre and he has to go to Rouen. Presumably there will be at Navarre bundles. "(7)
The arrival of the Prussians in Silesia, 1740.
be found in the letters of Bacqueville and Linnet's comments on John Horguelin events:
Bacqueville "Mr. Horguelin, in his letter of 23 December (1740) tells me that the Prussians were in full swing and eight leagues in Breslau, living in any discipline and paying regularly, without knowing what they intend to do. "(8)
Linnet "I received today (...) a letter from Mr. Horguelin, dated 28 January (1741) teaches us that the army of King of Prussia seized the castle Ohlau (owned Sobieski ), horses Isabelle given to His Highness (the Duke of Bouillon) by Mr. Prince Radziwill, and effects belonging to the estate of Prince Jacques (Sobieski) who were in the castle Olhau. The Duc de Bouillon is the intention to write to his Prussian Majesty. "(9)
Taking restless Breslau Rev. Achard, brother of John Horguelin. He expressed to Charles Etienne Jordan, a writer in Berlin, who wrote to King Frederick II (December 31, 1740):
"Sire, Berlin is full of decision-Glogau, the newspapers about it. There is circumstantial until this point that the siege lasted for four hours and the hourly cost a hundred men who lost their lives. (...)
Achard Minister is worried about the subject of his brother-Horguelin, one of the richest merchants Breslau, as Your Majesty may see by this post he writes. I assured him that they had to tranquilize and had nothing to fear in this circumstance, nor to his parent nor well there is on deposit. "(10)
The family of Jean Horguelin
Horguelin John left his family home of the Golden Fleece at Chalons in 1696 at the age of 14. It is sent by his father apprenticed to his uncle Peter Horguelin banker in Breslau. A
Chalons, John leaves a sister, Marie-Jeanne, who is the Doctrine of Superior, and a brother, Jacques, who will settle banker in Paris and Berlin.
In Breslau, his uncle has three daughters and a son John who married Magdalene, Mary the wife of the pastor will be in Berlin Achard, Suzanne, who married the Rev. Lorent in Berlin, and Abraham, who remain unmarried in Breslau.
John and Madeleine had no children.
Madeleine and Abraham bequeath their property to John, her in his will dated June 14, 1736, and he, in his will of 22 December 1733. (11)
Jean died in Breslau in 1745. His funeral took place Sept. 26 at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Reform community in the city singing the cantata: "He spread his wealth, he gave to the poor, his righteousness endures forever." (2.Cor.IX.9). (12).
Original parts
Letter from the Duke of Bouillon May 30, 1736.
"Copy of letter from His Highness Horguelin gentlemen, bankers in Breslau.
In Paris, 30 th May 1736.
Sieur Bourgeois Gentlemen, I have instructed that driving Mad. Bouillon, my daughter, Zolkiev or the place to be located at the Royal Court of the Prince of Poland, who may need some money to continue the journey or to return after it has left my daughter to the Court his grandfather, I pray you, gentlemen, give him the amount he could ask, leaving his prudence and his Oeconomy do you ask him what is needed. I shall have to pay attention to you here that you will advance him, making me put the reconnayssance infinitely oblige you gentlemen.
Signed: the Duke of Bouillon.
(Arch. national, 273 AP 205, folder 1, 1735-1737).
Letter "Horguelin, July 8, 1736.
"Sir, Here is a
included Mr Bacqueville marking to Your Highness the safe arrival of Mad. Princess d'Auvergne and his suite here. Mr. Bourgeois has given us the letter you have given us the honor, Sir, to write us, and in accordance with your orders, we will provide them with pleasure money as may be necessary, both for the continuation of the journey for his return, wherewith Your Highness will be informed in time.
Mr. Richer de Paris will present him in a short, two bills that Mr. Bacqueville She has passed on to our previous advances. One is 2325 pounds, payable at the end of the month of August, the other £ 2000 payable to aoust also my neighbor.
The first disbursements made to SA for the Duchess, and one for deliveries to Mr. Bacqueville. We beseech your highness to give order that these two letters be paid to the said Sieur Richer at maturity, and give us the grace to be very confident with all our enthusiasm for its service, and nobody can estre more devoutly than we are. Monsignor
Your Highness
very humble and very obedient servants
.
Horguelin
In Breslau the 8th July 1736. "
(National Archives, 273 AP 250, folder 1, 1735-1737)
Horguelin Letter of John, Jan. 26, 1741.
MR Linnet.
"Sir, I have received
the last two you did me the honor to write, the 7th and 11th of this month. The included for the Count of Proskauer has been delivered by hand, as well as previous which was sent to me by Mr. Richer.
I thought the ship loaded with luggage already arrived in Rouen. I see with displeasure to the contrary. God grant that it arrives safely and still mayst he not suffered the large storm, as far as I know, has been general throughout, having been so angry in these neighborhoods. You'll
apparently informed of the entry of the Prussians in this country of Silesia. There were 300 men in the Imperial City Ohlau there when the Prussians appeared. They withdrew from the town to the castle, to forbid it. When they saw that the Prussians were ready for the guns, they surrendered and came out with their weapons. The King of Prussia
this castle was a general to his army, which seized it and everything was there, as well as horses that Mr. Bacqueville had sent in advance and are intended for the Archbishop Duke. Shows that the effects are in the castle and the horses belonged to him. We spoke to the commissioners for their Prussian represent, so that horses and effects remain to whom they belong. They responded that it was not their department and that he had to speak directly to the King for the return of these effects. I realize that Mr. Bacqueville happen here in the early days to make the necessary arrangements in this regard.
You can, Sir, to express what I'm brand SA Monseigneur le Duc.
Our initial letters will tell you monitor this case. These included a
received from Mr. Bacqueville for you.
I have the honor to say much constantly, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant. Jean
Horguelin. Breslau on the 26th January 1741. "
(National Archives, 273 AP 205, folder 3, 1740-1743)
Wills Horguelin Madeleine and Abraham, 1726 & 1733.
"Holographic Wills Horguelin Magdalene, wife of John Horguelin and deffunt Horguelin Abraham, both in retail stores in the city of Breslau in Silézie, know how to date in he of the said woman Horguelin of June 14 thousand seven hundred twenty six, and him whom Abraham said Horguelin, 2 December the twenty thousand seven hundred thirty three, Controller and duly filed Périchon, notary in Paris, September 10 December, one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight, was extracted as follows, to wit, by Horguelin woman said:
In respect of my property, as may be so, without anything except, I appoint as honorable institution by my dear husband John Horguelin my true heir, unquestionable and universal, so that this property consisting of non-s only commercially available next to my father, but even bigger party in the books of debts and claims that my late father left my other brothers and sisters together, it would be able to charge and make the recovery along his knowledge and his conscience, and endeavor to continue to trade after my late dear father was prescribed and ordered, and dispose and order according to his will and his pleasure, as one who properly belongs to him.
And Abraham said of him Horguelin, the following: I do my
heir of all things God gave me through inheritance and Commerce, John Horguelin my dear cousin and brother-in so that I expressly Deffends all sealed and judicial inventory, provided that the said John Horguelin my cousin and brother-pays and pays with honor and conscience as I hope and expect it all Lesguer and provisions that it j'exigeray which I chargeray by a codicil written by my hand and a ticket belonging to that will, which have the same validity as if the contents were inserted word for word in my will.
hinted at Paris on the eighteenth of December, one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. Has been paid for the right, forty pounds, because rents in the city of Paris' s only.
(Arch. of Paris, DC 6 / 226, f ° 254 v °)
Closet Horguelin death of John, September 26, 1745.
(translated from German)
"The funeral of a noble and honorable man John Horguelin,
Trade Adviser to His Majesty the King of Prussia,
also worthy leader and the oldest community
of the Reformed Church of this city, will be held September 26
1745, at 9 o'clock in Breslau, and the assembly, plagued
of great sadness, will sing the song of farewell cantata
2 . Cor.IX.9: He has poured his blessings he gave to the poor,
his justice endures forever. Breslau, 1745.
(University of Marburg, Hesse, Titelblatt Katalog, signatur 555512. Web 2005)
Sources
(1) Arch. national, 273 AP 205, October 1735.
(2) "" April 1736.
(3) "" in May 1736.
(4) '' July 1736.
(5) "" October 1740.
(6) "'November 1740.
(7) "," February 1741.
(8) "" December 1740.
(9) "" January 1741.
(10) "Posthumous Works of Frederick II, King of Prussia, Berlin, 1788, Volume XII, p. 106.
(11) Arch of Paris, DC 6 / 226, f ° 254 v °, register innuendo in Paris, year 1738.
(12) Philipps-Universität Marburg, Titelblatt Katalog, Web 2005.
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