Still, I guess that if you'd asked him in his old age when he was happily retired that if he could rewrite his life to he never gets closer to Heinrich than respectful courtier to King's younger brother whom he greets at court events now and then, would he do so, he'd have said no.
Fair enough, I do concur with you (and mildred) about that.
I do love his relationship with his wives, and I agree that it shows him as a fundamentally decent human being (well, as far as we can tell), and it certainly stands in contrast to all of the Hohenzollern, sigh.
take her part when your mother attacks her for not having as many noble ancestors as your own bloodline
Awwwww! Go Lehndorff! <3
Then again, in other respects, he was luckier - he had lots of relationships and an emotional life aside from Heinrich, his health didn't get wrecked, and eventually he had surviving children, which he definitely wanted to have.
Huhhhhhh. Until you said that, I didn't think about the possibility Fredersdorf's wrecked health may have been due at least partially to his job. I mean, talk about a high stress job environment! Of course, as mildred likes to remind us, it's not like people didn't have plenty of reasons for having poor health in those days, including the terrible medical care -- but the accumulated stress over years of this can't have helped, and I wouldn't be surprised if it hurt him as well. Man, no wonder he wanted to retire after twenty years of this.
(Not just for the family line, he liked children. His first wife has kid siblings whom Lehndorff spends time with for playing and teaching, and he's also good with AW's kids when he sees them.)
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Re: My Englishmanm, or: Heinrich Who?
Date: 2020-01-09 10:00 pm (UTC)Fair enough, I do concur with you (and mildred) about that.
I do love his relationship with his wives, and I agree that it shows him as a fundamentally decent human being (well, as far as we can tell), and it certainly stands in contrast to all of the Hohenzollern, sigh.
take her part when your mother attacks her for not having as many noble ancestors as your own bloodline
Awwwww! Go Lehndorff! <3
Then again, in other respects, he was luckier - he had lots of relationships and an emotional life aside from Heinrich, his health didn't get wrecked, and eventually he had surviving children, which he definitely wanted to have.
Huhhhhhh. Until you said that, I didn't think about the possibility Fredersdorf's wrecked health may have been due at least partially to his job. I mean, talk about a high stress job environment! Of course, as mildred likes to remind us, it's not like people didn't have plenty of reasons for having poor health in those days, including the terrible medical care -- but the accumulated stress over years of this can't have helped, and I wouldn't be surprised if it hurt him as well. Man, no wonder he wanted to retire after twenty years of this.
(Not just for the family line, he liked children. His first wife has kid siblings whom Lehndorff spends time with for playing and teaching, and he's also good with AW's kids when he sees them.)
Awwwww, this makes me like him even more :D