ABSTRACT

His gracious highness3 set off from Hachberg on Thursday 28 September, at eight o’clock in the morning, in the following formation: in front ride ten of his gracious highness’s personal mounted escorts and guards, one of whom leads a riderless horse, one of his gracious highness’s own. They are followed by a trumpeter on horseback. Behind them ride 26 aristocrats, always three to a row, namely Martin von Remchingen, provincial governor of Hachberg; Heinrich vom Starschedel, equerry; [Hans] Caspar vom Stein, chief magistrate of Badenweiler; Ruͦtprecht Castner, chamberlain; Jacob [II] von Rotburg, forest warden; stablemaster, Hans Jakob Nagel; Albrecht and Melchior Besolden; Wolf Wilhelm von Eptingen; Adam Hektor von Rosenbach; Hans Melchior Schenk von Winterstetten; Ludwig von Bütikum; Hans Diebold [d.J.] von Reinach; Melchior and Lüpold von Baerenfels; Caspar von Hohenfürst; Hans Ludwig von Andlau; Hans Melchior von Landsberg; Hans Georg Volmar; Christoph and Hans Caspar von Rockenbach; Wernhardt von Offenburg; Ludwig Efinger; Ludwig Reutner; [Johann] Albrecht Gebwiler [d.J.].4 Then the following three on horseback in one row: Dr Hans Georg Kienlin, the lawyer, and Dr Felix Platter, the doctor of medicine, who sometimes also ride in the carriages, and Joseph Arhardt, the

1 Chapters 16-18 were made possible through the generous support of the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Herzog August Library (Wolfenbüttel), and the invaluable expertise of co-translator Verena Theile (who expresses her gratitude to David Collins, Mike Herzog, Bruce Maylath, and Resi Kremer for their help with these translations, and a warm thanks, too, to Gillian Bepler and the Freunde der Gesellschaft der Herzog August Bibliothek).