Quellen:
- Mitteilung Jacob Zeuner, 5.2.2005
" Pomerania was a Swedish duchyIn 1667 he was sent by his father to University of Wittenberg, and in 1668 onto Tübingen.After some duelling however, he was called back home.He worked as secretary to the SwedishVicegovenor of Pomern feldmarschall Konrad Baron von Mardefeld and went from here as secretary to the Swedish Feldmarschall Count von Wrangel in his War Office in Hanover. [1]In 1675 he visited his home in Stetin.Um 1675 fertigte Johann Joachim Zeuner eine Reihe von Tuschzeichnungen an, die das Zeughaus mit Beginenturm, das Schloss Herrenhausen und die Calenberger Neustadt zeigen. [2]As governor-general of Swedish Pomerania, Wrangel resided in the old ducal palaces in Stettin and Wolgast. Otherwise, he had substantial property in Pomerania and was a very active builder of private residences. He built, for example, the splendid Wrangelsburg Castle, a palace in Stralsund, and reconstructed Spycker Castle on the island of Rügen. Due to such functions as Chancellor of the Greifswald University (starting in
1660), he also exerted a significant influence on cultural life in Pomerania. The office of governor-general was a princely function, and he was named "Father " ("Landesvater") of Pomerania. In his Emblematica arcis regiae Stettinensis (1674), which he illustrated with pencil-and-wash drawings, Johann Joachim Zeuner also called him a Landesvater who ruled Pomerania with the strength of a Hercules; this happened to be in the same year as Louis XIV was acclaimed as an invincible Hercules in Versailles. [3]In 1682 Johann Joachim was appointed chamber-secretary to prince Georg Ludwig (1660-1727), who in 1714 as George I became king of England. Johann was inded trusted, so since 1686 he governed Georg's handmoney and from 1688 had a seat a his dinner table. In 1691 he introduced his nephew (son of his sister Anna Margarethe) as page at the royal court in Hannover.In 1702 he is granted Patent of Nobility after application in 1701 to the Preussian Emperor i Vienna [4] in which he points out a long line of Nobility
in the Zeuner family in Preussen as well as France. A description of his fathers coat of arms includes an open helmet. (Open helmets are normally for nobility only)[5]. According to the application the story is that his Greatgrandfather Michael Zeuner was grantet Patent of Nobility 15 may 1613 by Emperor Mathias and that Michael spent the rest of his life on the castle Kleehof. His son Caspaar and his wife Anna Maria from France also stayed here until they were forced by the Thirty Years War to flee to Nürnberg. During the war the castle was burned down and the Patent of Nobility disappeared with it.[1]: Norddeutsche Familienkunde heft 12-1984[2]: http://park.org/Germany/Hannover/Herrenhausen/Schloss_barock_detail.html[3]: Eimer 1997, pp. 27f.; Burke 1992, p. 78. On Zeuner, see Backhaus 1965.[4]: östereichisches Staatsarchiv, Algemeines Verwaltungsarkiv, Wallnerstr. 6a, A-1010, Wien.[5]: Siebmacher, Preussischer Adel, Band III,2, Tafel 507"
- ?öSTERREICHISCHER ADEL. Wappenbeschreibung: In einem weissen Schild mit einem Mannsbild, so bis an die Knie hinter einem Zaun, welcher hinter einem rothen Berg von 3 Hügeln aufgerichtet ist, steht, in der Hand ein Sichel haltend, und die Linke in die Seite setzend, auf welcher ein offener Helm mit 2 Püffelhörnern das rechte oberhalb blau und unterhalb gelb, das linke aber roth und weiss ist, mit rechder seits gelb und blau und linker roth und weissen Helmdecken?
Quelle: Norddeutsche familienkunde, Heft 2/1984 p. 179"
- Jacob Zeuner beruft sich u.a. auf (von mir noch nicht konsultiert):
- Schroeder-Hohenwarth, Joachim E.: Der kurhannoversche Drost Joachim v. Zeuner
(1647 - 1716) und seine Abstammung von den fränkischen v. Rosenberg. In: Norddeutsche
Familienkunde 1984 / 2, S. 177-182: