Marie Jeanne and Sigismund of Redern
Horguelin Marie Jeanne (1727-1788), born in Paris, died
in Berlin, daughter of Jacques and Louise Horguelin
Jeanne Crommelin, wife (1748) Redern Sigismund (1719-1789), son of Erasmus of
Redern and Catherine Bredow.
Monbijou Castle, Berlin, 1740.
"Since coming to power in 1740, Frederick II made to renovate and expand the castle Monbijou for his mother Sophie Dorothea of Hanover, widow of Frederick William," Sergeant King. " A key ceremony held in 1742. (1) Frederick
elected as steward of the palace ("Kammerherr") a young gentleman of 24 years: Sigismund of Redern. Redern are the owners of the land and lordship of Schwante near Berlin and have a residence in the capital, near the Brandenburg Gate Avenue Unter den Linden.
Frederick II is concerned then the future of his protégé and persuaded him to marry a rich heiress daughter of a Huguenot banker: Marie Jeanne Horguelin. Herman von Redern-Wansdorf wrote: "The father of the bride had a considerable fortune (...) and King Frederick II, wishing to keep capital in their states, Sigismund persuaded to enter into this union." (2)
Another suitor was in the running: it says in the chronicle of the Court of Frederick the Great, by L. Mulhbach: "(...) A wealthy Dutch business partner and friend of his father, came here (to Berlin) specifically ask for the hand of his daughter (...) ". (3)
If you believe this column, Jacques Horguelin, choosing a son-Prussian gentleman rather than a Dutch merchant, was ending, eventually, to his bank and his fortune, as we shall see, will invested in land in Lusatia (Brandenburg south).
hand, one might say, Jacques Horguelin is ennobled by Frederick November 26, 1748, and the marriage takes place in Berlin December 29, 1748, blessed by Pastor Lorent (who is married with a Horguelin Breslau). (4) and (5).
The curator of the Academy Berlin, 1751-1786.
"The committee is the chief administrative officer of the Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin. On the death of Trustee Samuel Schmettau in 1751, Frederick II named to replace him, Sigismund of Redern (6)
The latter remains at his post until the end of the reign of Frederick II. The king died August 17, 1786.
From August 31, "von Redern is replaced by the Earl of State, Ewald Friedrich von Hetzberg (1725-1795) who retains the position until his death (...)". (7)
Between 1758 and 1765, Sigismund of Redern present several papers before the meeting academics, which are published in French in the Memoirs of the Academy. (8)
1758. "Response to the essay on the Count Roncalli inoculation with smallpox.
1758." Eloge de Monsieur le General Bredow (...) "(Sigismund was the son of Elizabeth Bredow).
1759. "Observations on the present state of the diopter (...)".
1760. "Considerations on the influence that the illustrious Newton attributed to various refrangibility of light (...)".
1761. "Considerations dioptric "(three parts).
1765. "Consideration on the globe. Memoirs on the Antarctic continent, the Solomon islands, on the southern continent or South. "
lands and manors acquired in Lusatia (1771-1775).
In his will dated August 16, 1768, Jacques Horguelin bequeath to his only daughter the sum of two hundred thousand thalers in gold, "by recommending my daughter to use the money to buy land at its convenience , provided they are located in places where religion dominates or Protestant Reformed. " (9) Jacques
Horguelin died Jan. 6, 1770 at the age 79. In the five years that followed, Mary Jane runs the last wishes of her father, she and her husband bought the property in Lusatia several lands and lordships. They become the largest owners of the Bailiwick of Kamenz.
In 1771, they acquired the estate and castle Golssen their daughter Amelia receives a dowry on her marriage with Count Fontana Caravanzana. (10)
The same year, they acquired the land and its Bernsdorf ironworks in the region of Upper Lusatia metalliferous. (11)
In 1773, they bought the land and castle Königsbrück and three neighboring villages of Grüngräbchen, Cosel and Lipa. (12)
In 1775, they become owners of the land and the castle of their daughter Sophie Brauna
receives a dowry on her marriage with Count de Stolberg (1790). (13)
Children Redern-Horguelin.
Mary Jane has ten children. They were all born in Berlin, but the last girl (Wilhelmina) who was born in Görlsdorf über Angermünde in Uckermark. We know the history of only four of these children.
William Jacques was born February 2, 1750 and baptized at the French church in Berlin. He married Caroline Albertine von Zieten. And seconds Wedding: Dorothea Wilhelmine von Otterstedt.
Amelie Sophie was born June 8, 1753 and baptized at the French Church in Berlin. She married Count Nepomuk Fontana Caravanzana diplomat.
Sigismund Ehrenreich Jean was born July 18, 1761 and baptized at the French Church in Berlin. He married Harriet Montpezat in France. Sophie Charlotte Eleonore
was born November 4, 1765 and baptized at the French Church in Berlin. She married Frederic Leopold Count Stolberg.
Marie Jeanne Horguelin died in Berlin on January 1 1788 at the age of 60. "It was filed on his land in Görlsdorf Uckermarck.
Sigismund of Redern Konigsburg died on 1 July 1789.
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Marriage Redern-Horguelin, Berlin, 1748
"The 29th December 1748, Mr. Pastor Lorent Room blessed the marriage of Mons. Sigismund Ehrenreich of Redern, Schwante born near Berlin, Chamberlain of Her Majesty the Queen Mother, son of Mons. Erasmus William of Redern, Lord Schwante and Staffeld, and Lady Catherine Elizabeth Bredow. With
Horguelin Demoiselle Marie Jeanne, a native of Paris, daughter of Mons. Jaques of Horguelin and Lady Jeanne Louise Crommelin.
Französische Kirche zu Berlin, MAR.III.10
Baptismal Guillaume Jacques de Redern, Berlin, 1750.
"The 18th of February 1750, Mr. Pastor Achard, uncle, has named William James Room, 2nd born at 8 o'clock in the evening, son of Mons. Sigismund Ehrenreich of Redern, Chamberlain of Her Majesty the Queen Mother, a native of Schwante near Berlin, and Dame Mary his wife Joan of Horguelin, a native of Paris. It was presented by Mons. Erasmus William of Redern, paternal grandfather, Mons. Jaques of Horguelin, maternal grandfather, Mons. Lieutenant General Bredow, Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, and Mr. de Groeben, Speaker of the electoral market and private adviser of the Grand Board, and Lady Catherine Elizabeth Redern, born Bredow, his grandmother, Lady Jeanne Louise Horguelin, born Crommelin, maternal grandmother, and Mrs. Marie Achard, born Horguelin, its godfathers and godmother. "
Französische Kirche zu Berlin, BAT. VII. 313
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cte baptismal Sophie Charlotte Eleonore Redern, Berlin 1765. "The 27th of November 1765, Mr Pastor Achard called Room Eleonore Sophie Charlotte, born 4th at six o'clock, daughter of Mr Sigismund Ehrenreich Count Redern, heretofore Grand Marshal of the Court of His Majesty The Queen Mother, a native of Schwante near Berlin, and Dame Mary his wife Joan of Horguelin, a native of Paris. It was presented by Mr. Borislav Schverin of first equerry to the King, and Mr. Frederick Erasmus Redern and Ms. Eleonore de Maupertuis, Sophie Elizabeth Schverin and Mrs. Charlotte Bonnin, born Bredow, its godfathers and godmother. "
Französische Kirche zu Berlin, BAT. VIII.374
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e death of Marie Jeanne Horguelin, Berlin, 1788.
"On 1 January 88 to noon is dead of an attack, Lady Mary Countess of Redern, born of Horguelin, aged 60, a native of Paris, daughter of the late Mr James Horguelin of Louise and the late Jeanne Crommelin his wife. It was filed on his land in Görlsdorf Uckermarck. Französische Kirche zu Berlin MRT. VII. 492
Notes Görlsdorf über Angermünde in Uckermarck, 1632-1911.
History. In 1632, Görlsdorf becomes the property of Oberstlieutnant Valentin Adam von Redern. Then a land with stately farmhouse, barn and water mills on the river Wels. The manor and the village are ruined by war. The widow of a Jobst Otto von Hake bought the estate in 1687/88. In 1720, the von Redern are back Görlsdorf they gradually develop into a summer residence and the residence of the family (...)
Description of places. The castle, built in the 18th century, was rebuilt and enlarged several times: restoration by architect Carl Heinrich Knoblauch in 1845, processing by the architect Ferdinand Schorbach in 1884, and further transformation in 1911. And destruction in 1945.
The village church (formerly chapel of the castle) was built in 1717 and restored in 1804. Countess Bertha von Redern, born Jenish, built a bell tower 18 meters high in 1854. "
"Görlsdorf Geschichte", web page, November 29, 2006.
"The tower of the church is built on the north side of the building. The ground floor of the tower serves as the entrance to the church. A memorial to a deceased Countess Redern en 1788 a été élevé dans le hall. Il s'agit d'une urne au sommet d'une colonne tronquée, avec le portrait de la comtesse défunte. "
"Uckermarck churches. Village Church in Görlsdorf "WEB page, 20 aout 2009th
Nota. La comtesse de Redern en question est Marie Jeanne Horguelin. Son portrait est accompagné de l'inscription suivante: "Johana Marie, Countess of Redern born d. 18th Sept. 1727; died Jan. 1st of 1788th The most devoted mother "(la meilleure des mères).
Note de Ferdinand Sigismond Hoeffer sur de Redern, Paris, 1872. "Redern (Sigismond Ehrenreich, Count), born in 1719 in the Mark Brandenburg, who died in 1788 in Königsbrück. He was grand marshal of the court of Queen Dowager of Prussia in 1751 and became one of the curators of the University of Berlin. After trying unsuccessfully to be an Indian Company in Embden, a project for which he visited Russia and France, he retired to his property in Lusatia, and devoted himself to the study of physics and chemistry.
(...) Louis XV in 1769 had given him letters of naturalization.
Source: Prussia literary t. II - Monthly, Lexicon. Ferdinand
Hoeffer, New biography general, Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1872, Volume 41, p. 823.
Redern Sigismund of Communication at the Berlin Academy, 1759.
In a communication dated 31 May 1759 Redern opposes Academician Ronccali about smallpox and the means to fight against the disease which wreaked havoc particularly among young children. The Earl of Redern supports the inoculation while the count Roncalli is opposed. To calm the arrogance of Roncalli Redern he cites Montaigne
"Learn from Montaigne, Sir, if you doubt, as the highest throne, we are sitting on the chair as the simplest."
Redern develops his argument: "I thought it was an indispensable duty for me to rise above prejudice, like a father" (as the Court in the city we were overwhelmingly against the inoculation).
"(...) This year, the small-pox has won three quarters of children who had. I had a queen lighted against me (the queen mother Sophie Dorothea) whose feelings were for me stops, my family and people from elsewhere who looked very respectable thing to be doubtful. (...) I am losing my children was that the Natural smallpox was God's will that he had to resign, and we tried to scare me by the reproaches that were overwhelm me and I will have to do if the event was not. Persuasion of the truth prevailed over all other considerations.
Professor Meckel (...) was inoculated with two children that I, the eldest of 7 years has had only slight fever for 2 days in the second of three years was not noticed fever. "
Memoirs of the Berlin Academy, the public meeting May 31 1759, page 71.
Sophie Redern Horguelin, great-grandmother of Charles of Habsburg, 1765-1961. The Redern-Horguelin appear in several significant areas of germanophones today, including Charles de Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria. Here is the pedigree established by Arnold Broch:
"Frederic Leopold Count Stolberg wife Sophie Charlotte Eleonore Countess Redern lady Braun, born November 4, 1765, daughter of Sigismund Ehrenreich Count Redern, lord of Königsbrück, and Marie Jeanne Horguelin. Child: (...)
Julie Countess Agnes Emilie Stolberg, born 10.12.1790, married in Münster, Westphalia, (10/03/1812) Maximilian Franz Xavier Count Korff, lord of Brinck. Child: (...)
Frederic Leopold Count Maximilian Korff, born in Brinck, Westphalia, on 08/02/1820, wife Freiwaldau, Silesia (08/26/1851) Countess Gabriele Mirbach-Kosmanos. Child: (...)
Alfred Count Korff, born in Geldern, Rhineland, 17.9.1856, wife in Darmstadt, Hesse (16/05/1893) Helen Klara Hilgers. Child: (...)
Countess Klara Maria Korff, born in Darmstadt on 05/31/1895, wife in Freiburg Breisgau (22/02/1919) George Prince of Saxe-Meiningen. Child: (...)
Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen was born in Würburg, Franconia, January 6, 1925, wife Nancy, France (05/10/1951) Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria. Child: (...)
Charles of Habsburg, born in Starnberg, Bavaria, 11 January 1961, married in Mariazell, Styria (01/31/1993) Francesca Anne, Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza. Child (...)
Ferdinand von Habsburg, born in Salzburg, June 26, 1997.
Carl Arnold von Broch, "Die Grafen Friedrich Leopold of Nachkommenschaft zu Stolberg-Stolberg, 1750-1819" Montzen, 2000.
Sources
(1) "Château de Monbijou" page WEB août, 2009.
(2) Hermann-von Redern Wansdorf, "history of sex in Redern, Görlitz, 1936.
(3) L. Mulhbach, "Frederick the Great and His Court", tome II, chapitre 12, page 28
(4) R. Béringuier, "Trees of the French colony members in Berlin", 1885.
(5) French Church in Berlin, MAR.III.10 (1748).
(6) "Histoire de l'Académie royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres, tome 8 Anne, 1752, p. 31.
(7) René Talon, Revue d'histoire des sciences, année 1988, n ° 41-1, 44th page
(8) "Histoire de l'Académie (...)», 1758, tome XIV, pp. 71 & 485, 1759, tome XV, p. 89, 1760, tome XVI, p. 3, 1765, tome XXI, pp. 3, 14, 17
(9) The National Archives, UK, "Will of Jacques d'Horguelin of Berlin, 18 May 1770, PROB 11/957 page, WEB, May 2008.
(10) "Land and People, Golßen" WEB page, 15 octobre 2002nd
(11) "Berne Village History" page WEB, 6 novembre 2002nd
(12) "Königsbrück Geschichte ", web page, July 1, 2002, &" Geschichte Gruengraebchen Rittergut "web page, October 16, 2002.
(13) "Chronik Brauna" Web page, November 3, 2002.
