Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn
Imperial Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn ( born April 22, 1736, in Hannover, † October 10, 1811 ) was a Field Marshal kurhannoverscher and art collector.
Life
Johann Ludwig was the illegitimate son of British King George II (1683-1760) and his mistress Amalie Sophie Wallmoden (1704-1765), later Countess of Yarmouth, to the world. Although his mother with Adam Gottlieb Wallmoden (1704-1752) was married, but for a payment of 1000 ducats he was willing to postpone its claims. The marriage was divorced in 1740.
After the death of Queen Caroline (1683-1737), the then Prime Minister Robert Walpole pleaded to bring Sophie Amalie of Wallmoden from Hanover to England. You should for the position of official mistress (French: maîtresse en titre ) occupy for King George II. This Johann Ludwig grew up in St. James 's Palace and Kensington Palace. As the illegitimate son of the king, the young Wallmoden got a comprehensive education, and after completing his education he went to Grand Tour to Italy. In the course of this undertaking, he slept with an extensive collection of ancient marble statues, busts and reliefs. After his trip, he joined the kurhannoverschen military service and rose to major general.
In 1700, numerous country seats of the court nobility was created in the former floodplain of the leash. In 1768 acquired by Wallmoden some of these gardens and summarized them to Wall Fashion Garden. It later emerged the George Garden. In 1782 he built the Wallmoden Castle, which housed its famous ancient art collection later.
Even before this was Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn member of the Masonic Lodge Frederick in Hanover became and 1763/1764 the Worshipful Master.
1782 acquired by Wallmoden of Prince Johann I of Schwarzenberg, the imperial rule Gimborn in Westphalia and was charged by Emperor Joseph II in Vienna under the name Wallmoden - Gimborn and with appropriate coat of arms proliferation in the imperial counts on 17 January 1783. At the same time, he obtained a seat and vote in the Westphalian Reichsgraf college and thus the empire state stem. After the death of Count Philip II of Schaumburg -Lippe (1723-1787) was Wallmoden - Gimborn next to the widow Princess Juliane of Hesse- Philippsthal guardian of the underage son and heir, George William ( 1784-1860 ).
In the years 1790-1811 Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
1793-1795 he was defeated in the Netherlands, the French General Jean -Charles Pichegru.
On July 5, 1803, signed by Wallmoden - Gimborn as commander in chief of the army kurhannoverschen the Convention Artlenburg, thereby surrendering before the invading Napoleonic troops.
Johann Ludwig Graf von Wallmoden - Gimborn was buried in the family vault of the families in Heinde near Hildesheim. His significant, almost 600 new works of art collection was auctioned in 1818 and scattered in the whole world. Approximately 70 paintings came into the possession of Bernhard Hausmann. As part of the Lower Saxon State Exhibition in 2014 for the 300th anniversary of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover a reconstruction of the former Wallmoden'schen gallery is presented in Mr. Hausen castle with over 100 exhibits. With loans from private and institutional collections in Europe and North America, parts of antiques and paintings are brought together in the exhibition curated by art historian Ralf Bormann from the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover exhibition first time in 200 years.
After Johann Ludwig death of King George IV acquired the collection of ancient sculptures, Wallmoden book collection of over 8,000 volumes, was already in 1813 his great-nephew, the Viceroy Adolf Heinrich, Duke of Cambridge. The antique collection is still to be seen in the possession of the Guelphs and since 1979 as a permanent loan from the Archaeological Institute of the University of Göttingen.
Family
In his first marriage married Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden on April 18, 1766 in Hanover Charlotte Christiane Auguste Wilhelmine von Wangenheim ( 1740-1783 ). The marriage produced five children:
- Ernst Georg August (1767-1792)
- Ludwig Georg Theo (1769-1862), Austrian general of cavalry
- Charlotte Georgine Auguste (1770-1859)
- Friederike Wilhelmine Magdalene (1772-1819) ∞ 1793 Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein
- Friederike Eleonore Juliane (1776-1826) ∞ Ludwig Friedrich von Kielmansegg; Parents of Edward
His second wife married Wallmoden - Gimborn on August 3, 1788 in Biickeburg Baroness Luise Christiane von Liechtenstein ( 1763-1809 ), daughter of Baron Friedrich Karl of Liechtenstein and Charlotte Ernestine von Berckefeld. The marriage produced three children:
- Karl August Ludwig (1792-1883), Austrian field marshal and privy councilor Lieutenant Zoe ∞ 1833 Countess of Grünne (daughter of Philipp Ferdinand ); with him went the Count's line House of Lords Wallmoden.
- Adolf Franz James William (1794-1825)
- Luise Henriette (1796-1851) ∞ 1816 Karl Julius Heinrich Graf von Rottenhan ( 1791-1847 )