Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl

Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
Noble family	House of Fleckenstein
Father	Philipp Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl
Mother	Anna Alexandria of Rappoltstein
Born	(1588-02-02)2 February 1588
Died	31 January 1644(1644-01-31) (aged 55) Hanau
Buried	St. Mary's Church in Hanau.

Georg II of Fleckenstein Dagstuhl (2 February 1588 – 31 January 1644) was the last baron of the house of Fleckenstein. He was the eldest son of Philipp Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (d. 1618) and his first wife, Anna Alexandria of Rappoltstein (7 March 1565 – 9 April 1610). Georg II gained considerable power as guardian and regent of the still underage Count Friedrich Casimir and the counties of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Hanau-Münzenberg during the final phases of the Thirty Years' War.

At twelve, he became a squire at the court in Nancy of Duke Charles III of Lorraine. Later, he was employed by Württemberg on a diplomatic mission to England. After that, he began a career in the military.

He served in Hungary during the Long War. He climbed to the rank of colonel in the army of the Protestant Union. After the Union was dissolved in 1621, he entered the service of Margrave Friedrich V of Baden-Durlach. During a feud between the Hanseatic League and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, he killed a member of the House of Isenburg with a pistol shot. He retired in 1622 — turning down offers to become a general in the Danish, English or Swedish army — and focussed on the administration of his own barony.