In Attendance On The Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg
1662 Johann Christian Jauch entered the service of the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg at its residence Güstrow castle. He was a member of the ducal household of Magdalena Sibylle, née Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, wife of Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, until he became 1669 First Valet de chambre (Erster Lacquay und Taffeldecker) of Crown Prince Carl of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. 1665 he married Ingeborg Nicolai (†1696), who had come to Güstrow with the duchess Magdalena Sibylle from Gottorf Castle, serving her as lady's maid and confidant. The social rank of a servant at these times mirrored the lordship − the higher the lordship, the better the opportunities for the servant to reach a prestigious position himself. A ducal valet de chambre ranked in Mecklenburg-Güstrow equal to The Very Reverend, thus allowing the lordship to demonstrate its own rank. Suitably the first daughters of Johann Christian and Ingeborg Jauch married peers. Catharina Elisabeth Jauch (1671–1736) married the later colonel and architect of King August the Strong, Johann Christoph von Naumann, her sister Juliana Agnesa Jauch (1673–1712) married Baron (Freiherr) Johann Rudolf von Schmiedel, Saxon district governor (Amtshauptmann) and councillor of the board of domains (Landkammerrat), their son being Baron Franz Rudolf von Schmiedel, Hofmarschall of the extravagant Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
1688 Crown Prince Carl died. Johann Christian Jauch quit the service and became burgher of the city of Güstrow, dealing at retail and being a court shoemaker, purveyor to the ducal family. His eldest son Johann Christopher Jauch (1669–1725) had been a stipendiary of the duke and became 1694 court chaplain (Hof- und Schlossprediger). After the death of the last Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Gustav Adolph, in 1695 the dukedom of Mecklenburg-Güstrow became extinct. Though duchess Magdalena Sibylla maintained a small court until 1718 the residence Güstrow lost its splendour and relevance. Moreover Ingeborg Jauch had already died. Therefore, almost all family members left Güstrow 1696 and turned to Lüneburg.
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