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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2024-01-19 04:32 pm (UTC)

Doris Ritter

I looked up Doris Ritter's wiki entry to be on the safe side, and yep, no mention of the parents getting banished. Otoh it's mentioned her father tried pleading for mercy with FW repeatedly to spare her the punishment, but in vain. (Presumably he could not have done that when exiled.) Also, it's worth repeating FW's direct order in its sheer ghastliness (and also because it has a date you can compare to the date of Lövenörn reporting it):

„dem Hoff Rath Klinte, daß er Morgen die in arrest allhier einsitzende Cantors Tochter soll auspeitschen laßen, und soll dieselbe alßdann ewig auf Spandow in das Spinnhauß gebracht werden, erstlich soll dieselbe Vor dem Rathhause gepeitscht werden, hernach vor des Vaters Hause, und dann auff allen Ecken der Stadt.“

– Potsdam, den 6. Sept. 1730. Fr. Wilhelm


Note the extra cruelty of her being whipped in front of her father's house as well. I did misrenember which friend chaperoned her and Fritz, though, it was Ingersleben, not Spaen, according to wiki. Which also said the relationship lasted six months, from January to June 1730, i.e. exactly the high time of Fritz/Katte relations. (Presumably the January date is based on Ingersleben's testimony. But it's interesting that Fritz in January - after Peter gets transferred to Wesel? - intensifies his relations with Katte and starts a whatever it was involving strolls and concerts with poor Doris.) Which is also when he's definite that he wans to escape by any means necessary.

Oh, and that wiki entry also mentions Ingersleben's exact sentence, complete with another direct quote. As opposed to Lövenörn reporting he got sentenced for life (which we knew had not been the case), he got sentenced for six months in Spandau, because he should have: wißen und urtheilen können, daß S. K. M. dergleichen [Spaziergänge] höchst mißfällig seyn würde“.






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