May 12: Princess of Darmstadt. Guessing this is this one, who was apparently so learned that Fritz promoted her to honorary man.
Per Wikipedia:
after her death, he sent an urn to Darmstadt with the text femina sexo, ingenio vir ('A woman by sex, a man by spirit').
Seems Wilhelmine's "thanks but no thanks" didn't make an impression on Mister Misogyny. ;)
Anyway, I recognize the Darmstadt name mostly because two of this woman's daughters show up in our fandom: one marries FW2 after MESSALINA Elisabeth gets a divorce, and she becomes the mother of FW3, and the other is the one who marries Catherine the Great's son Paul (future emperor), dies painfully in childbirth while Heinrich is visiting, and Heinrich comforts Grand Duke Paul with, "So sorry your wife just died in agony; can I interest you in a replacement wife with close ties to the Prussian royal family?"
May 16: Eva [Merthen] is the mistress of Marshall Keith. This is James Keith, who, a few years later, tells Fritz camping next to the Austrians is a bad idea and the Austrians deserve to be hanged if they don't take advantage, then Keith dies in the battle of Hochkirch that ensues because Fritz doesn't listen. His mistress is the one that Bisset, editor of Andrew Mitchell's papers, is ignoring when he's all, "La la, stoic Keith, so manly and chaste, no time for a family," when Eva and James had several kids and a lifetime partnership.
They met when James was serving in the military in Russia, and occupying Finland with the Russian army--that time HolsteinPete almost became King of an independent Finland that never panned out. (Bisset, iirc, wishes James had stayed in Russia and faced off against Fritz in the Seven Years' War instead of dying at Hochkirch.)
James Keith is the older brother of George Keith, Lord Marischal, Fritz's BFF late in life who got to build a house on the grounds of Sanssouci, and Fritz would meet up with him at the Chinese Teahouse when he got too old to climb the hill up to Sanssouci. George is the one who (supposedly) sent for the British envoy when dying because he wanted to snark about a Jacobite emitting his dying sighs at a minister of the Hanover king.
Interesting that Boswell says he admits the Stuarts deserved to lose the throne. Not surprising: it's a position that's hard to argue with, and there were lots of disillusioned Jacobites after 1746.
May 27: "Waiting life" = Wartensleben. Remember that most if not all of the Wartenslebens are related to Katte on his mother's side, as Field Marshal Count Wartensleben, an extreeemely prominent personage, is his grandfather, and he had something like 17 children.
June 1: Lehndorff goes to the parade. This is the annual military revue held in spring that FW (afaik) started and Fritz carried on, the one that AW and Heinrich are constantly stressing about their performance at, the one where Heinrich will initiate a year of silence with Fritz by refusing the ritual of presenting the spontoon (a type of pike) to his King and get back on speaking terms with him by duly presenting it the following year, and the one at which (according to the gossip that Stratemann hears), Hans Heinrich laid down his sword at FW's feet and tried to offer his retirement in 1731. (Yeah. It's FW he's struggling to forgive.)
June 4: Franz von Braunschweig/Brunswick, EC's youngest brother, who, like James Keith and so many others, will die at Hochkirch in 1758. (The same day of Wilhelmine's death.)
June 6: Marschall Kalkstein: this is Fritz's governor when he was a teenager. Lol, Lehndorff meets a Frau von K., who married her husband for money and cheats on him, and is currently quite taken with the pale face and fox-red hair of Staatsminister Katte. This is one of the Katte cousins whom Lehndorff hates; a brother of the one who married Lehndorff's cousin.
June 14: Fritz spends the night 10 miles away, arrives at 5 in the morning. Note that this is because it's summer and he starts his day at 3 am.
June 17: Fräulein Morien: Pretty sure this must be the same one who ends up married to Kalkreuth as a result of his attempt to compromise Mina, and dies in childbed a year later. I've been seeing Frau Morien references and wondering how they were related, and then I seem to recall Frau Morien presenting her daughter to the princess (Mina, presumably), and so that must be her mother.
June 19: He is the croesus of this country who lives like a harpagon.
Croesus: Very wealthy king in ancient Greek times who was made famous by Herodotus, you may have seen "rich as Croesus" in English. Harpagon: the name of the protagonist in Molière's "The Miser."
June 22: "old coats": Altrock, proper name.
"musicians dressed as Pane" = Pans, in keeping with the pastoral theme.
July 5: Lol at banged up Lehndorff comparing himself with Don Quixote.
Okay, so I keep seeing the Reuss family mentioned, and I was recently reminded that all the princes are named Heinrich, something I had known but forgotten. So I googled them, and it's worse than I thought. 1) They're still doing it!, 2) it's not just a regnal name that the heir to the principality adopts. It's all of them! Per Wikipedia,
All the males of the House of Reuss are named Heinrich (Henry) plus a number. In the elder line the numbering covers all male children of the elder House, and the numbers increase until 100 is reached and then start again at 1. In the younger line the system is similar but the numbers increase until the end of the century before starting again at 1. This odd regulation was formulated as a Family Law in 1688, but the tradition of the uniformity of name was in practice as early as 1200. It was seen as a way of honoring the Hohenstaufen Emperor Heinrich/Henry VI, who raised Heinrich der Reiche/Henry the Rich (+1209) to the office of provost of the Cloister in Quedlinburg. [Reminder that Quedlinburg is where Amalie was abbess.]
And look at this twentieth century example!
Heinrich I married 15 September 1939 at Bad Doberan to Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1918–2019), daughter of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and his wife, Princess Victoria Feodora Reuss of Schleiz. His wife was the niece of his adoptive father Heinrich XLV.
They had six children (one daughter and five sons).
Princess Feodora Reuss of Köstritz (b. 5 February 1942), married in 1967 to Count Gisbert of Stolberg-Wernigerode, had issue. Prince Heinrich VIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 30 August 1944), married in 1973 to Baroness Dorit of Ruffin, had issue. Prince Heinrich IX Reuss of Köstritz (b. 30 June 1947), married in 1984 to Baroness Amélie Besserer v. Thalfingen, had issue. Prince Heinrich X Reuss of Köstritz (b. 28 July 1948), married firstly in 1976 to Baroness Elisabeth Akerhielm of Margrethelund, divorced in 1990, had issue; Married Secondly in 1991 to Countess Antoinette of Arnim, no issue. Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 4 December 1951), married in 1989 to Susan Doukht Jaladi, had issue. Prince Heinrich XV Reuss of Köstritz (b. 9 October 1956), married in 1999 to Anja Charlotte Nooth-Cooper, had issue.
Calm down, you guys!
July 11: Fritz is putting on Voltaire plays in Berlin while holding Voltaire prisoner in Frankfurt. Lehndorff: ???!
Lehndorff, you're not alone in your confusion.
Also, in case we haven't repeated this enough, cahn, Frankfurt at this date is a FREE CITY totally not in Fritz territory.
July 14: Oh, he finally says the more he gets to know Countess Bentinck, the more impressed he is. It's been all trash-talking up to this point.
cahn, do I need to remind you, or do you remember who Bentinck is? She's come up quite a few times.
July 16: Fritz and Heinrich are getting along, this so so great, they deserve reciprocal love! AHAHAHAHAAAAAA lolsob, Lehndorff. Never change.
July 17: Es ist ein sehr gescheiter Mann, der aber unglücklicherweise Erica gleicht, und das reizt zum Lachen, wenn man ihn zum ersten Male sieht.
He is a bright man, who unfortunately looks like Erica, and that makes everyone laugh who sees him for the first time.
Anyone know who Erica is? It's kind of hard to Google.
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That's all I'm going to do for today, 20 pages, as I want to try to do some Krockow later.
Lehndorff readalong: through July 20, 1753
May 12: Princess of Darmstadt. Guessing this is this one, who was apparently so learned that Fritz promoted her to honorary man.
Per Wikipedia:
after her death, he sent an urn to Darmstadt with the text femina sexo, ingenio vir ('A woman by sex, a man by spirit').
Seems Wilhelmine's "thanks but no thanks" didn't make an impression on Mister Misogyny. ;)
Anyway, I recognize the Darmstadt name mostly because two of this woman's daughters show up in our fandom: one marries FW2 after MESSALINA Elisabeth gets a divorce, and she becomes the mother of FW3, and the other is the one who marries Catherine the Great's son Paul (future emperor), dies painfully in childbirth while Heinrich is visiting, and Heinrich comforts Grand Duke Paul with, "So sorry your wife just died in agony; can I interest you in a replacement wife with close ties to the Prussian royal family?"
May 16: Eva [Merthen] is the mistress of Marshall Keith. This is James Keith, who, a few years later, tells Fritz camping next to the Austrians is a bad idea and the Austrians deserve to be hanged if they don't take advantage, then Keith dies in the battle of Hochkirch that ensues because Fritz doesn't listen. His mistress is the one that Bisset, editor of Andrew Mitchell's papers, is ignoring when he's all, "La la, stoic Keith, so manly and chaste, no time for a family," when Eva and James had several kids and a lifetime partnership.
They met when James was serving in the military in Russia, and occupying Finland with the Russian army--that time HolsteinPete almost became King of an independent Finland that never panned out. (Bisset, iirc, wishes James had stayed in Russia and faced off against Fritz in the Seven Years' War instead of dying at Hochkirch.)
James Keith is the older brother of George Keith, Lord Marischal, Fritz's BFF late in life who got to build a house on the grounds of Sanssouci, and Fritz would meet up with him at the Chinese Teahouse when he got too old to climb the hill up to Sanssouci. George is the one who (supposedly) sent for the British envoy when dying because he wanted to snark about a Jacobite emitting his dying sighs at a minister of the Hanover king.
Interesting that Boswell says he admits the Stuarts deserved to lose the throne. Not surprising: it's a position that's hard to argue with, and there were lots of disillusioned Jacobites after 1746.
May 27: "Waiting life" = Wartensleben. Remember that most if not all of the Wartenslebens are related to Katte on his mother's side, as Field Marshal Count Wartensleben, an extreeemely prominent personage, is his grandfather, and he had something like 17 children.
June 1: Lehndorff goes to the parade. This is the annual military revue held in spring that FW (afaik) started and Fritz carried on, the one that AW and Heinrich are constantly stressing about their performance at, the one where Heinrich will initiate a year of silence with Fritz by refusing the ritual of presenting the spontoon (a type of pike) to his King and get back on speaking terms with him by duly presenting it the following year, and the one at which (according to the gossip that Stratemann hears), Hans Heinrich laid down his sword at FW's feet and tried to offer his retirement in 1731. (Yeah. It's FW he's struggling to forgive.)
June 4: Franz von Braunschweig/Brunswick, EC's youngest brother, who, like James Keith and so many others, will die at Hochkirch in 1758. (The same day of Wilhelmine's death.)
June 6: Marschall Kalkstein: this is Fritz's governor when he was a teenager.
Lol, Lehndorff meets a Frau von K., who married her husband for money and cheats on him, and is currently quite taken with the pale face and fox-red hair of Staatsminister Katte. This is one of the Katte cousins whom Lehndorff hates; a brother of the one who married Lehndorff's cousin.
June 14: Fritz spends the night 10 miles away, arrives at 5 in the morning. Note that this is because it's summer and he starts his day at 3 am.
June 17: Fräulein Morien: Pretty sure this must be the same one who ends up married to Kalkreuth as a result of his attempt to compromise Mina, and dies in childbed a year later. I've been seeing Frau Morien references and wondering how they were related, and then I seem to recall Frau Morien presenting her daughter to the princess (Mina, presumably), and so that must be her mother.
June 19: He is the croesus of this country who lives like a harpagon.
Croesus: Very wealthy king in ancient Greek times who was made famous by Herodotus, you may have seen "rich as Croesus" in English. Harpagon: the name of the protagonist in Molière's "The Miser."
June 22: "old coats": Altrock, proper name.
"musicians dressed as Pane" = Pans, in keeping with the pastoral theme.
July 5: Lol at banged up Lehndorff comparing himself with Don Quixote.
Okay, so I keep seeing the Reuss family mentioned, and I was recently reminded that all the princes are named Heinrich, something I had known but forgotten. So I googled them, and it's worse than I thought. 1) They're still doing it!, 2) it's not just a regnal name that the heir to the principality adopts. It's all of them! Per Wikipedia,
All the males of the House of Reuss are named Heinrich (Henry) plus a number. In the elder line the numbering covers all male children of the elder House, and the numbers increase until 100 is reached and then start again at 1. In the younger line the system is similar but the numbers increase until the end of the century before starting again at 1. This odd regulation was formulated as a Family Law in 1688, but the tradition of the uniformity of name was in practice as early as 1200. It was seen as a way of honoring the Hohenstaufen Emperor Heinrich/Henry VI, who raised Heinrich der Reiche/Henry the Rich (+1209) to the office of provost of the Cloister in Quedlinburg. [Reminder that Quedlinburg is where Amalie was abbess.]
And look at this twentieth century example!
Heinrich I married 15 September 1939 at Bad Doberan to Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1918–2019), daughter of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and his wife, Princess Victoria Feodora Reuss of Schleiz. His wife was the niece of his adoptive father Heinrich XLV.
They had six children (one daughter and five sons).
Princess Feodora Reuss of Köstritz (b. 5 February 1942), married in 1967 to Count Gisbert of Stolberg-Wernigerode, had issue.
Prince Heinrich VIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 30 August 1944), married in 1973 to Baroness Dorit of Ruffin, had issue.
Prince Heinrich IX Reuss of Köstritz (b. 30 June 1947), married in 1984 to Baroness Amélie Besserer v. Thalfingen, had issue.
Prince Heinrich X Reuss of Köstritz (b. 28 July 1948), married firstly in 1976 to Baroness Elisabeth Akerhielm of Margrethelund, divorced in 1990, had issue; Married Secondly in 1991 to Countess Antoinette of Arnim, no issue.
Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 4 December 1951), married in 1989 to Susan Doukht Jaladi, had issue.
Prince Heinrich XV Reuss of Köstritz (b. 9 October 1956), married in 1999 to Anja Charlotte Nooth-Cooper, had issue.
Calm down, you guys!
July 11: Fritz is putting on Voltaire plays in Berlin while holding Voltaire prisoner in Frankfurt. Lehndorff: ???!
Lehndorff, you're not alone in your confusion.
Also, in case we haven't repeated this enough,
July 14: Oh, he finally says the more he gets to know Countess Bentinck, the more impressed he is. It's been all trash-talking up to this point.
July 16: Fritz and Heinrich are getting along, this so so great, they deserve reciprocal love! AHAHAHAHAAAAAA lolsob, Lehndorff. Never change.
July 17: Es ist ein sehr gescheiter Mann, der aber unglücklicherweise Erica gleicht, und das reizt zum Lachen, wenn man ihn zum ersten Male sieht.
He is a bright man, who unfortunately looks like Erica, and that makes everyone laugh who sees him for the first time.
Anyone know who Erica is? It's kind of hard to Google.
***
That's all I'm going to do for today, 20 pages, as I want to try to do some Krockow later.