Baron Frederick von der Trenck of Prussia, Genealogy,  Remmick-Hubert Web Site

Last Updated: 28 April  2006

von der Trenck Family

Gen. One

Fr[i]edericka [Reka] [twin] b. ca. 1744 Quedlinburg Abby, a Prussian Estate in Saxony-Anhalt, [Germany] d. ca. 1845 m. Count  Daniel Nathaniel _____(?) von   Hahn-Hein  [Could have been  Nathaniel von Hahn-Hein, Count of Daniel?????l, who may have died fighting in the American colonies under a General Fox or someone nicknamed "Silver Fox"....abt 1776

Gen. Two

Baron  [Count] Frederick Wilhelm von der Trenck of Koenigsberg, E. Prussia,  son of  Major-General von der Trenck, Lord of Scharlack,  Schakulack, & Meiken and ____, nee Derschau [Dirschau, der  Schau, Dessau, Tczew] ,who was later known as Countess Lostange... b. 17 Feb 1726 Haldensleben [not Konigsberg] near Magdeburg, Prussia d. gullotined on 25 July 1794  Paris, France m. (2)  Maria Anna Sofia Franziska Elisabeth Gabriela de Broe [House of Artas] and had 8 children.  Two known descendants. One lives in  Arizona and one lives in San Francisco, CA m. (1) [morgantic] marriage: ca. 1743 in Heinberg north of Berlin  to Anna Amelia [Amalie), House of von Hohenzollern, Royal Princess of Prussia, Princess of Orange, & Abbes of Quedlinburg b. 9 Nov. 1723 d. 30 March 1787 Children [twins]: male [twin] b. ca. 1744 Fredericka [Reka] [twin] b. ca. 1744 Quedlinburg Abby, a Prussian Estate in Saxony-Anhalt, [Germany] d. ca. 1845 m. Count Daniel Nathaniel von   Hahn-Hein

Trenk's Issue of marriage / or / liasons:

m. (??) to ___________  Issue: Johan Andreas Trenkmann b. 1765 Mersborg Saxony m. Johanna Rosine Andraf b. 1766 Saxony Johonn Henrich Ludwig Trenkmann b. 1800 d. 1879 Berlin m. Rosine Regine Funk b. 1809 d. 1842 Halle on the Saale See Trenkmann Family  Branch of Trenck for the family of Johann Andreas Trenkmann b. 1765  in detail at the bottom of this page....

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Trenck's Second marriage and Family ......

m. (2) to Maria Anna Sofia Franziska Elisabeth Gabriela de Broe zu Dipenbendt b. 28 March 1740 d. 12 Jan 1802 House of Artas from Bussels. She was the daughter of the Burgomester of Brussels. Sister to Vice-Chancellor of Duseldorf, Baron Robert of Roland. Issue were: Joseph  Friedrich Ghisain von der Trenck, Field-Marschal-Lieutenant b. 30 Oct. [Dec]. 1766 Aix-la-Chapelle [Germany].  Known as a Lieutenant in the Tuscanny Regiment of Calvary under General Lasey's in father's book....  Would become Imperial Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshall Maria Eleonore Trenck b. 10 Dec 1772 d. 26 Oct 1848  m. ____von and zu Ungarschitz Peter Leopold Friedrich von der Trenck b. 8 July 1769 d. 21 Dec 1834.  Gained title of Graf on 2 July 1809. m. Maria Amalie Friederick Ciesielski b. 25 Oct 1787 d. 31 Dec 1832 Notes: At the age of 16 Leopold was given on 17 March 1787 the honor of being standard bearer with the dragoon regiment Nr. 6 von Pasdowsky in Koenigsberg, E. Prussia.  At the death of his uncle Karl Albrecht von der Trenck, he becmae the second Count von der Trenck.  Issue: Count Gustav von der Trenck Otto von der Trenck became a Dragoon Major Karola Amalia von der Trenck b.18 Dec 1777  d. 1797 m. Joseph Strahl Johanna Nepomuzena von der Trenck b. 24 Jan 1780 Alberta von der Trenck b. 19 Aug 1784 Notes from book: son. Last known to be an Ensign in Pasadowsky Dragoons. May have been born in Aachen.. note: One of his sons may have been a Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Carbineers [Bohemia Military History Children's records were from Merseburg n. Darmstadt Germany found by a Mr. Juergen Trenkmann Children out of wedlock were: others were?????

History of Count [Baron] Frederick von der Trenck

Trenck had been taken into Frederick II "The Great's" famous  Personal Guard [all over six foot tall] as a Cornet in 1742.  Trenck rose to Ordnance Officer at age of 19.  Fell in love with Frederick II "the Great's " sister, A. Amelia. They secretly married. Some think it was because of Trenck's boldness to have secretly married the King's sister, the Prussian King had Trenck arrested in 1743 and placed in the prison. . Trenck was held without public accusation or trial. Trenck escaped prison in 1743. He wrote of his escape in his is autobiography  which  was copied,  almost word by word by Victor Hugo for his own hero's escape in his novel Les Miserables. The events which followed  carried him eastward into Austria.   He leaves us his impression of his cousin, Franz von der Trenck [lover of Empress Theresa]. Baron Fred. von der Trenck owned two Austrian estates of Zwerbach and Grabeneck near Melk on the Danube River.  Sale of purchase was 1753. Received rank of Major in Austrian Army. Trenck 's next adventures occurred in Russian. Received rank  of Captain of the Russian Army Calvary.   Empress Elizabeth appointed him the rank of Gentleman of the Chamber.  He met  and became friends with the future  Catherine II "The Great". Baron  Fred von der Trneck was Knighted in Austria by Maria Thersia. [Date not known]. In 1754 Trenck, while in Prussia to attend the funeral of his mother, Frederick II "The Great's" agents  captured Trenck, and soon he was, again, in prison. This time he was held in a special cell built for him in the prison in Magdeburg  where he remained  without trial or any written document telling him why he was in prison. Frederick von der Trenck in Magdeburg Prison Amelia took up residence in Magdeburg.... 1763, almost ten years later, he would be released from prison His life of excitement continued. He would wed a second time and would have eight more children.  [Descendants live in Arizona and California, USA in the 1980s]  His first son of this miarriage was Joseph, who was born in Dec. of 1766 in Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen, Prussia.  Maternal family linked to the family of Artas His autobiography was  written in  1786-7. It was translated into seven different lanuages. In 1794,  Trenck was arrested as a spy in Paris, France.  He was thrown in prison and placed on trial in front of the Tribunal. The man who signed Trenck's death by execution by the guillotine  was Fouquier. Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities seems to describe his hero's execution as well as Trenck's execution, during the time known as  the Reign of Terror. Like Dickens hero, Trenck was the last of the 22 guillotined  on a hot July day in Paris under the orders of Robspierre, the revolutionary leader,  in 1794.  His final words, however,  were: "People of France, we die innocent.  Our deaths will be avenged by you. Set up liberty once more by making an  end of the monsters who are desecrating her name!" The angry crowd left Trenck's  death scene, marched to Robspierre, drug him to prison and he was guillotined several days later. The Reign  of Terror was at an end. In 1795 Frederick II "The  Great's" successor and nephew, Frederick William II, signed the documents which gave Trenck the title of Count which would be inherited by his heirs. 1994  Two hundred later, in 1994, almost to the day, 25 July 1794, Judy A. Remmick-Hubert, a descendent of Trenck, visited Paris where Trenck  was guillotined.  On the 29th of July 1994 Judy  and her husband, Garry, visited the Conciergerie, where  Trenck was held as a prisoner for the third and last time in 1794. The picture above shows the layout of the Conciergerie which held many famous prisoners, including the ex-Queen of France, Marie Antoinette ex. 1793. List  of Those Executed Found In The Conciergerie

Here is a list of those guillotined in France during the Revolution: http://les.guillotines.free.fr/index.htm

Various  Trenck Coat - of -Arms Fig. 2

For those interested in reading the Life Story and Adventures  of Frederick von der Trenck it can be found in the Blackmask"s Old Books under Trenck Vol 1 and Vol II:  http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/barontrenck1.htm.

Gen. Three

Prussian Calvary Maj.-General Baron Christopher Ehrenreich von der Trenck and Lord of Scharlack, Schakulack and Meichen, Knight of the Military Order  [Data from Douglas Parker's book HOHENZOLLERN, TRAGIC PRIVATE LIVES]  One of their homes still stands, a brewery house which now is called Golden Star [Goldene Stern] Hotel in Haldensleben near Magdeburg....  b. ca 1677 poss Zitzschen / Mersseburg [Germany] d. 14 May 1740 after suffering 18 wounds in a battle in  First Silesia War near Gloyau m. 3 Feb 1724 [Rec. show he was 47 years old on day of wedding]   Maria Charlotte von Derschau [Dirshau or Tczew or der Shau] , dau. of the Albrecht Frederick von Dershau, President of the High Court at Koenigsberg. Her brother was Colonel Derschau who was part of  Pr. King Frederick Wilhelm's [William's]Tabagie [Tobacco Group who smoked pipes every night and was his informal cabinet of state]...]  Two brothers were Generals of Infantry. As a widow she rem. (2) Lt. Colonel Count Lostange  who  was in the Kiow Reg. of Curassiers  and who joined the Austrian army. She would live after her second marriage  near Breslaw  [Breslau]in Elbing.... in 1747 where she died. *Data found in the book Konigsberger Stadtgeschiechter Families from the town of Koenigsberg. Call number 934.8 B4sw nr. , Pages 14 and 15. b. 12 July 1717 [age of 16 on wedding day] d. [March 1754 according to Trenck and 25 Dec 1753 according to Parker's Bk.] Dantzig [Danzig], Prussia Issue: Dorothea Charlotte von der Trenck m. Herrn von Meyerentz from Heinrichshofen.  It was Meyerentz who betrayed Trenck because f 200 ducats he owned him, or, so the story is told.  Henriette Albertine von der Trenck b. 19 Jan 1726 Wolmirstedt Frederick von der Trenck  [see Gen. 2] b. 16 Feb 1726 Haldensleben [not Konigsberg] near Magdeburg, Pr.   d. 25 July 1794 guillotined in Paris, France.  Bap. 20 Feb 1726  m. (1) Princess A. Amalie, House of von Hohenzollern of Prussia [morgantic; annuled]; m. (2)  Maria de Broe, Children by  Amalie were: m. (1) were: son [twin] b. abt 1743-5 Quedlinburg Abby [Hohenzollern] Fredericka (Ricka)  [twin] b. abt 1743-5 [Hohenzollern] m. Count Daniel Nath. Hahn-Hein m. (2) by Maria Anna Sofia Franziska Elisabeth Gabriela von Broe zu Dipenbendt  b. 28 Maerz [March] 1740 d. 12 Jan 1802 House of Artas from Bussels. She was the daughter of the Burgomester of Brussels. Sister to Vice-Chancellor of Duseldorf, Baron Robert of Roland. Issue were: Joseph  Friedrich Ghisain von der Trenck, Field-Marschal-Lieutenant b. 30 Oct. [Dec]. 1766 Aix-la-Chapelle [Aachen. Germany].  Known as a Lieutenant in the Tuscanny Regiment of Calvary under General Lasey's in father's book.... Maria Eleonore Trenck b. 10 Dec 1772 d. 26 Oct 1848  m. ____von and zu Ungarschitz Peter Leopold Friedrich von der Trenck b. 8 July 1769 d. 21 Dec 1834.  Gained title of Graf on 2 July 1809. m. Maria Amalie Friederick Ciesielski b. 25 Oct 1787 d. 31 Dec 1832 Karola Amalia von der Trenck b.18 Dec 1777  d. 1797 m. Joseph Strahl Johanna Nepomuzena von der Trenck b. 24 Jan 1780 Alberta von der Trenck b. 19 Aug 1784 Notes from book: son. Last known to be an Ensign in Pasadowsky Dragoons. May have been born in Aachen.. note: One of his sons may have been a Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Carbineers [Bohemia Military History Children's records were from Merseburg n. Darmstadt Germany found by a Mr. Jergen Children out of wedlock were: ____ others.... Hennrieta Albertine von der Trenck b. 20 Feb 1728 Haldensleben m. (1) H. G. Waldaw [Volvow] of Brandenburg , who died at Meiken, son of Lieutenant General Arnold Christopher von Waldow from Hammer n. Landsberg, Prussia; m. (2) Pape, Comannder of Cotz Dragoons . Lived in Hammer near Kulm/Pr. in 1754. Issue: son was . Captain of Regiment of the Goetz Dragoons Ludwig Ehrenreich von der Trenck b. 14 Aug 1729 Haldensleben Ludwig Ehrenreich von der Trenck  b. 1730 Konigsberg. Served in the cuirassier regiment von Kyau.  He resided at Meyicken Estate and owned estates of Legitten and Wisritten ?? Count Karl Albrecht von der Trenck Note: Karl Albrecht von der Trenck .  Inheritied family estates of Schakaulack and Gross Scharlach.  In June 1798 the Prussian Kaiser Frederick Wilhlem II gave him the title of Count von der Trenck.

Gen. Four

Hans Dietrich von der Trenck d. 1673 von der Trenck m. ___ b. d. Issue: John [Hans]   von der Trenck, Colonel of Austria  & Govenor of Calabria, Italy then returned to Slavka and Silesia and served as Governor of Leitschau.... b. abt 1674 Konigsburg  d. 1743 Leitschau/ Austria-Hungry m. ____ Kettler of Courland . Note:  Frederick Ketler, Duke of Courland, gave charter to Courland in 1625 and Fred. W. Kettler b. 1692 d. 1711 m. the Russian Empress Anne....Issue: son [died before 1728] son [died before 1728] Baron Franz von der Trenck [Trek, Trengk] b. 1 Jan 1714 [or 1710 or 1711] Reggio, Calabria, Italy  d.4 Oct 1749 Spielberg Prison [poison], Brunn, Moravia, Austria m. aft. 1736 to ___ Tillier, dau. of Field Marshal Baron Tillier of Switzerland.  No heirs.  Declared his cousin Frederick von der Trenck, his first cousin, as his legal heir.... He held the lands of Pakratz, Prestowacz, Pleternitz in Austria Hungery and in Yugoslavia owned the estates of  Bestovac, Velika, Nustar and Zwerbach.... He raised and out of his own purse paid about 1,000 irregulars for Empress Maria Theresa in 1740. Was known for his brutailty as a soldier. Maj.-General Baron Christopher Ehrenreich von der Trenck, Lord of the Estates of Scharlac, Schukalack and Meinken [Meyicken]  m. Maria Charlotte von Derschau, dau. of Albrecht Frederick von Derschau, President of the Royal Law Court in Koenigberg, Pr. . Issue: Frederick von der Trenck  [see Gen. 2] b. 16 Feb 1726 Konigsberg d. 25 July 1974 guillotined in Paris, France  m. (1) Princess A. Amalie  [House of von Hohenzollern of Prussia] [annuled] ; m. (2)  ___ de Broe, House of Artas from Bussels. She was the daughter of the Burgomester of Brussels. See family in detail above dau m. Nimschafsky Anna Louise von der Trenck m. Georg von Partein dau. m.  Manstein Issue: Georg Wilhelm von Manstein who had been a Page to Queen Sophia Dorothea d. May 1757 with rank of Colonel in the Battle for Prague Russian Major- General Sebastian Ernest von Manstein d. 1747 Maria Ester von der Trenck m. Lehwald John von Lehwald b. 24 June 1685 was promoted Major-General and in 1751 became Field Marshal.  He fought in the two Silesian Wars.  Made the interim Governor of Berlin over Lieutenant General von Rochow and was so until 1763.

Gen. Five

___ von der Trenck Sebastian von der Trenck [brother of Hans von der Trenck's] d. 1688, was the Master of Schakaulack and Captain-Lieutenant in the Brandenburg army.  Issue: ?? Ludwig von der Trenck b. 1699 [grandson of Sebastian] Ludwig Frederick von der Trenck b. 1731 became a hussar Major-General Frederick Ludwig von der Trenck b. 1731 became a hussar major-general Wilhlem von der Trenck b. 1788 became a Captain in the Tsar Army Wolff Frederick von der Trenck b. 1700 became a Colonel child Frederick Ernest  von der Trenck b. 1741 became a Major  Hans [Johan] Dietrich von der Trenck  d. 1707 became a Cavalry Captain Johan Henry von der Trenck b. 1664  d. 11 Feb 1743  Issue: Franz von der Trenck who became the Austrian Queen Theresa's champion who terroized the enemies of Austria Christopher Ehrenreich von der Trenck b. 1677 [see above for details of family]

Family History: 1200 According to Douglas Parker in his book HOHENZOLLEN, TRAGIC PRIVATE LIVES, the Trrenck family were from Franconia, which was a German Duchy near Frankfurt,  and  then the Trencks migr. in the 1200s to Prussia "with the German Order of Knights".  1533 Oct. - Grand Master of the Order, Duke Albrect of Pr. gave the estate of Scharlacker in the Labiau District [40 km north-east of Konigsberg] to ____Trenck Trenck's  would come to own the estates of: Scharlack, Schakaulack, Christroplack, Rodwienen, Poparten, Kodern, Taktau, Kapstuecken, Perkuiken, Solallen, Meiken, Loethen, Meerlauken and Pereisten. 1652 Achatius von der Trenck gave 16,5000 Marks to help Frederick Wilhlem I of Brandenburg so the  Kaiser could conclude the Luebeck Peace Treaty.  In turn, te Kaiser gave him the estate of Goldbach near Wehlau in April of 1652 -----

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RESEARCHING TRENCKS

From Various Files

TRENCK LIST

VON DER TRENCK LIST

Trenkmann Branch of von der Trenck Family

Trenck Letters

A   BOOK

Douglas Norman Parker has published a book this year, 2005, which goes into detail about the lives of Baron von der Trenck, Princess Amalia and her brother the Prussian King Frederick II "the Great". Douglas has dug into the family tree of the Trencks and has found a great deal of information.  I personal send my thank you and hope to continue to speak with him about the family and anything new he might discover.   Up to this time,  he has not found evidence which proves the existence of our ancestors Fredericka Hohenzollern who married  Count Dnaiel Nathaniel [von Hein].  He does, however, believe Amalia and Frederick did have a child and part of his book is his search for the evidence that a child existed. Judy A. Remmick-Hubert

This book HOHENZOLLERN, TRAGIC PRIVATE LIVES by Douglas Norman Parker Mr. Paker's website: http://www.douglasparker.com.au/ can be purchased at amazon books: http://www.amazon.com

* Note:  information marked in green is from Kurt Trenkmann

     

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