Thanks! I've added these to my notes and will do a post someday.
Grumbkow, and as far as I recall it was but the last of a whole series of such suggestions to Grumbkow, starting with the one which might even have been in late 1731, not 1732, where Fritz woke up his small Küstrin entourage to have them all sign on a letter to Grumbkow suggesting a him/MT match and Grumbkow wrote horrified WTF? letters to both Eugene and to one of the Küstrin guys.
I think that might have been the April 1731 episode, which I remember Grumbkow being involved in.
Hinrichs also in "Der Kronprinzenprozess" has Fritz repeatedly denying ever telling Katte of the Evil Catholic Marriage Plot, remember, and both quotes - from Katte and from Fritz - are really important since this is the one issue where their testimonies diverged.
Yes, I remember! I was taking that as said when I included Hinrichs in the list of sources.
Nicolai isn't a witness, but he does express - in his refutation of Zimmermann's "Fritz didn't want to escape to England or France, he totally wanted to go to Austria to marry MT!" - the in retrospect insightful opinion that the Katte who wrote such good Protestant Christian last letters would never have signed on to such a project (of Fritz marrying a Catholic Archduchess).
Oh, right, I'd forgotten that! And we commended him for figuring that out without access to the archival sources!
Incidentally, given how bad the Punctae made Katte look in the eyes of someone like Eugene, and if that "The tyrant demands blood" quote was real, and given that the Punctae wasn't even in his handwriting, I still wish I knew whose idea it was, what they said to Katte (assuming it was someone else's idea), and what he was thinking when he wrote it. Like, I've come around to believing he wasn't faking the piety at the end, but how repentant was he about the escape attempt, actually? Maybe he felt like Dad: okay, shouldn't have done it, but the punishment was really disproportionate?
Re: MT marriage AU sources
Grumbkow, and as far as I recall it was but the last of a whole series of such suggestions to Grumbkow, starting with the one which might even have been in late 1731, not 1732, where Fritz woke up his small Küstrin entourage to have them all sign on a letter to Grumbkow suggesting a him/MT match and Grumbkow wrote horrified WTF? letters to both Eugene and to one of the Küstrin guys.
I think that might have been the April 1731 episode, which I remember Grumbkow being involved in.
Hinrichs also in "Der Kronprinzenprozess" has Fritz repeatedly denying ever telling Katte of the Evil Catholic Marriage Plot, remember, and both quotes - from Katte and from Fritz - are really important since this is the one issue where their testimonies diverged.
Yes, I remember! I was taking that as said when I included Hinrichs in the list of sources.
Nicolai isn't a witness, but he does express - in his refutation of Zimmermann's "Fritz didn't want to escape to England or France, he totally wanted to go to Austria to marry MT!" - the in retrospect insightful opinion that the Katte who wrote such good Protestant Christian last letters would never have signed on to such a project (of Fritz marrying a Catholic Archduchess).
Oh, right, I'd forgotten that! And we commended him for figuring that out without access to the archival sources!
Incidentally, given how bad the Punctae made Katte look in the eyes of someone like Eugene, and if that "The tyrant demands blood" quote was real, and given that the Punctae wasn't even in his handwriting, I still wish I knew whose idea it was, what they said to Katte (assuming it was someone else's idea), and what he was thinking when he wrote it. Like, I've come around to believing he wasn't faking the piety at the end, but how repentant was he about the escape attempt, actually? Maybe he felt like Dad: okay, shouldn't have done it, but the punishment was really disproportionate?