Last Updated: 18 Nov 2005
CHILD 12.
Baron [Count] Frederick von der Trenck
of Koenigsberg, E. Prussia, son of Major-General
von der Trenck, Lord of Scharlac, Schakulack, & Meiken and Marie Charlotte,
nee Derschau [Dirschau, Dessau, Tczew] ,who was later known
as Countess Lostange.... , dau. of Albrecht von Derschau,
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Children [twins]:
1743
When Frederick II "the Great" discovered his sister Amalia had secretly married and was pregnant, he flew into a rage and sent her off to the Abby of Quedlinburg [a place where aristocratic father's often sent their daughters who gave birth to children out of wedlock]. Her marriage was annulled.
Other Interesting Historical Notes About Amelia
Abbes of Quedlinburg
1753
About ten years later Amalia, who never married, again, became the Abbes of Quedlinburg when the Abbes Maria Elisabeth died. This made her a wealthy woman.
The Abby of Quedlinburg was in 1753 in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and a religious estate owned by the Prussian Kings.
Near by was the institution for the education of daughters of the nobility founded in 919 by Queen Mathilde
The town of Quedlinburg lies along the River n the northern Harz Mountains.
She continued to have communication with Trenck until her death.
Music
Handel's Messiah
Discovered on a pamphlet handed out at the San Francisco Symphony's Handel's Messiah [p. 18B]was, and I quote: "What did Moazart do and how did he come to do it? The instigator was Baron Gottfried von Swieten, whose Dutch father had been personal physician to the Empress Maria Theresa.....While posted in Prussia, van Swieten became acquainted with Princess Anna Amalia, sister of Frederick the Great, and the circle of musicians around her which was headed by Johann Sebastian Bach's learned pupil, Johann Philipp Kirnberg. Through these musicians--the Princess herself was a very good one--he came to know the music of Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. He had already become a Handelian."
"In the 1870s van Swiertyern organized a group of wealthy patrons who called themsevles the Associierte. It was for their concerts that Mozart rescored Messiah...."
Literature
During the years 1751 to 1753 Voltaire was at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia Potsdam. There he met Amelia and learned about her lover Trenck for whom he later wrote Candide.
Candide was more than a satire of Leibniz's view of philosophical optimism it was a satire on Trenck's life and the injustices from Frederick "The Great" with whom Voltaire had just fallen out of favor [1753].
Devin M. Hubert, descendent of Trenck, wrote his final paper at UC [Berkeley] on Candide because he recognized in the first line "IN the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronchk ..." Voltaire was refering to Baron Frederik von der Trenck's family and Frederick's adventures.
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