On another note, I have to go back and slap myself on the forehead: I have *no* idea what I was reading that led me to believe Schwerin was a lt colonel in the 1730s. One, you don't get promoted from lt colonel to field marshal in the time frame he would have needed to be (not even Seydlitz, famous for his overnight leaps in rank); two, he was a major general already when voting on Katte's and Fritz's sentences in 1730, duh.
So no, I no longer think the two people are the same, *but*, I still kind of suspect it's Kurt. One thing I'm curious about is this document dated 1737 that has his name on it and is in the private Knyphausen papers in East Frisia. Does it have to do with the illegitimate child? I'm going to order it and find out!
I submitted a page check request to the Prussian archives for the Hertzberg-Trenck correspondence, btw, to see how much it would cost to order. Fingers crossed!
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Re: New archive material wishlist
Date: 2025-01-20 05:24 pm (UTC)On another note, I have to go back and slap myself on the forehead: I have *no* idea what I was reading that led me to believe Schwerin was a lt colonel in the 1730s. One, you don't get promoted from lt colonel to field marshal in the time frame he would have needed to be (not even Seydlitz, famous for his overnight leaps in rank); two, he was a major general already when voting on Katte's and Fritz's sentences in 1730, duh.
So no, I no longer think the two people are the same, *but*, I still kind of suspect it's Kurt. One thing I'm curious about is this document dated 1737 that has his name on it and is in the private Knyphausen papers in East Frisia. Does it have to do with the illegitimate child? I'm going to order it and find out!
I submitted a page check request to the Prussian archives for the Hertzberg-Trenck correspondence, btw, to see how much it would cost to order. Fingers crossed!