18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Kattes

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you! I was really struggling with that word and guessing as best I could. (Which was not very well, lol.)

And yes, it did remind me of Kiekemal! But I had forgotten about that Gundling detail, and didn't think to apply the concept of the lord of the manor's legal privileges, thank you.

I note no one thought Hans Heinrich lost his honor over it.

Lol, yes, and I notice Fritz is still rewarding Kattes with heiresses after 1748, notwithstanding. Maybe HH being dead helped. But Pfeiffer managed to recover and make a name for himself, to the point where after his death, people thought he was innocent!

Re: Kattes

[selenak]

Lol, yes, and I notice Fritz is still rewarding Kattes with heiresses after 1748, notwithstanding.

Though that would be yet another good reason why the Kattes keep the true reason for the duel super secret and go for "love" rather than "financial greed", I bet!

Lehndorff: ....

Re: Kattes

[mildred_of_midgard]

Though that would be yet another good reason why the Kattes keep the true reason for the duel super secret and go for "love" rather than "financial greed", I bet!

Exactly what I was thinking this morning! (It's been a long morning: I woke up at 4:30, saw your comments, did some database maintenance, the database broke, I had to fix it, I took an inadequate nap, and I'm now half asleep and multitasking salon and keeping an eye on the database, so I'm forgetting about 50% of the things I meant to say, ugh.)