BTW, one reason why I think Lehndorff isn't just talking out of his own bias when saying his cousin is unhappily married is that he writes down that one of her two children dies, she's in despair and doubly so because she despises her husband too much to have another child with him. And Ludolf von K. indeed had only two children, which Lehndorff, writing this in the middle of the 7 Years War, can't have known.
If you had mentioned this before, I'd forgotten it. That's really interesting.
Speaking of Ludolf, I was looking up the marriage date, and found that Kloosterhuis says Ludolf "sich an den Eskapaden Hans Hermanns fleißig beteiligte." Took part diligently in Hans Hermann's escapades? This is coming in a footnote to a passage that talks about that intriguing-sounding initiation rite thing involving horses, champagne, the female gender, and the number 3, which I had seen cited around the internet before we got our hands on the volume itself, and also that apocryphal tale about him riding his horse into cousin Sophie Charlotte's parlor. So I guess Ludolf, five years younger than Cool Older Cousin Hans Hermann, took part in all these antics. Which was news to me.
I'm sorry about the bad marriage and the one who got away, but Lehndorff and cousin du Rosey, you missed your chance for so many Hans Hermann anecdotes! Apparently your husband was along for the ride when all the crazy stuff happened.
Unpublished Lehndorff retirement journal: Lehndorff gets all these anecdotes from Ludolf and du Rosey's surviving kid, who takes after his mom and thus bonds with Lehndorff. The anecdotes languish in the Saxon archives to this day, waiting to be read. :P
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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1776
Date: 2020-02-29 07:20 pm (UTC)BTW, one reason why I think Lehndorff isn't just talking out of his own bias when saying his cousin is unhappily married is that he writes down that one of her two children dies, she's in despair and doubly so because she despises her husband too much to have another child with him. And Ludolf von K. indeed had only two children, which Lehndorff, writing this in the middle of the 7 Years War, can't have known.
If you had mentioned this before, I'd forgotten it. That's really interesting.
Speaking of Ludolf, I was looking up the marriage date, and found that Kloosterhuis says Ludolf "sich an den Eskapaden Hans Hermanns fleißig beteiligte." Took part diligently in Hans Hermann's escapades? This is coming in a footnote to a passage that talks about that intriguing-sounding initiation rite thing involving horses, champagne, the female gender, and the number 3, which I had seen cited around the internet before we got our hands on the volume itself, and also that apocryphal tale about him riding his horse into cousin Sophie Charlotte's parlor. So I guess Ludolf, five years younger than Cool Older Cousin Hans Hermann, took part in all these antics. Which was news to me.
I'm sorry about the bad marriage and the one who got away, but Lehndorff and cousin du Rosey, you missed your chance for so many Hans Hermann anecdotes! Apparently your husband was along for the ride when all the crazy stuff happened.
Unpublished Lehndorff retirement journal: Lehndorff gets all these anecdotes from Ludolf and du Rosey's surviving kid, who takes after his mom and thus bonds with Lehndorff. The anecdotes languish in the Saxon archives to this day, waiting to be read. :P