SINCLAIR, LOUIS [SSNE 6094]

Surname

SINCLAIR, von SINCLAIR, de SINCLAIRE

First name

LOUIS, LUDWIG, LUDVIG, LEWIS

Text source

A Kammerjunker Ludwig Sinclair is mentioned in 1707 in a letter of the famous “Prince of Homburg” - the drama of Kleist about the hero of the Battle of Fehrbellin 1675 where Brandenburg due to the contribution in the battle of the Prince of Homburg , who became Landgrave Friedrich II. of Hessen-Homburg (1633-1708) in 1681 – against the orders of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm – defeated the Swedes. The Prince of Homburg had as a young man (he was not the immediate heir of the territory of Hessen-Homburg) served under the Swedes ca. 1654 – 1670 and married a Brahe lady and acquired considerable wealth through this marriage. In 1670 after the death of his wife and probably some disagreement with the Swedes he left Swedish service, married a Princess of Kurland, entered the service of Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg, who through the Prince of Homburg’s new marriage became his brother-in-law, and changed his confession from Lutheran to Reformed and lived in Berlin – it seems in the Schloß there – and also in Neustadt an der Dosse in Brandenburg. In 1691 the now Landgrave Friedrich II. of Hessen-Homburg married as his third wife the coheiress of Nieder- and Oberbronn in Alsace and Forbach in Lorraine, a member of the Leiningen-Westerburg family. Her sister also coheiress of Nieder-and Oberbronn and Forbach, Esther Juliane von Leiningen-Westerburg married Ludwig von Sinclair in 1711. Several fragments of the funeral monument to Ludwig von Sinclair/Louis de Sinclaire 'comte de Niederbronn et Oberbronn' who died in 1738 were discovered recently in the churchyard in Oberbronn, the monument having been taken down and broken up at the time of the French Revolution. The monument is described at some length with some information about the family in material of “Patrimoine de France”. The fragments of the monument of Ludwig von Sinclair/Louis de Sinclaire d. 1738 apparently show his coat of arms Given the location of the monument, it is almost certain that Ludvig was a brother of Johan Sinclair [SSNE 3319] and therefore he would have been a son of Ludwig Sinclair [SSNE 3516] and Christina, a daughter of one Lord Stanhouse.

This article was written by Mr Angus Fowler with detailed sources to follow

Service record

HESSEN-HOMBORG, NIEDERBRONN

Arrived 1707-01-01

Departed 1738-01-12

Capacity KAMMARJUNKER, purpose MISC, ROYAL SERVICE