Albrecht von Rosenberg
Albrecht von Rosenberg (* around 1519; † May 17, 1572 in Vienna ) was an imperial knight who, with the help of property and numerous fiefdoms, succeeded in building a largely closed rule in the Schüpfer area. He first caused a sensation by protecting Emperor Charles V from the persecution of the princes, which also found its way into a folk song, or with the kidnapping of the Nuremberg councilor Hieronymus Baumgartner . He was a captain in the imperial army and captain of the knightly canton of Odenwald .
Life dates
Origin and family
He came from the Frankish noble family von Rosenberg . His father was Eberhard IX. von Rosenberg zu Schüpf († October 16, 1519), who is believed to have joined the attack by Duke Ulrich von Württemberg on the imperial city of Reutlingen . His mother was Anna von Dienheim , who married Peter von Leyen for a second marriage in 1526 .
He married Katharina von Seinsheim zu Erlach († April 28, 1550), a daughter of Fabian and Margaretha, born Seckendorff from the Jochsberg line. The marriage remained childless. In his second marriage he was married to Ruffina Stiebar von Buttenheim from 1553 . She was the widow of Valentin Heinrich Rüdt von Bödigheim († 1547) and came from the connection between Sebastian Stiebar and Barbara, a born von Egloffstein . This second marriage also remained childless.
Dispute over Boxberg
In 1542 it appears in a document for the first time in military service in the Imperial War against France. In 1552 he prevented the capture of Emperor Charles V by the warlords. He helped the sick emperor to escape from the approaching Elector Moritz von Sachsen from Innsbruck to the Netherlands. He owed the emperor's favor in regaining the Boxberg family estate , which had been confiscated as a result of the Frankish War . After the Palatinate and the Swabian Federation disregarded the family's requests, Albrecht kidnapped the Nuremberg councilor Hieronymus Baumgartner in order to underline his claims. Albrecht was then financially compensated, but received no property back. During the Schmalkaldic War , imperial troops occupied Boxberg in 1546 and in 1552 the emperor finally transferred ownership to Albrecht. The influence of the Palatinate was not broken by this, however, in 1553 an attempt was made to eliminate Albrecht in a murder plot by four mayors . The plot was exposed and the mayor hanged after a trial. With the help of intermediaries, a contract was finally formulated that sealed the sale of Boxberg to the Palatinate.
Power building
Under Knight Albrecht, due to a systematic accumulation of rights and a union of various fiefs in one hand, it was possible to build an almost closed rule, to which ecclesiastical rights were also incorporated in the course of the Reformation . Albrecht introduced the new faith in his possessions. The division of the inheritance among his father's siblings gradually came into his possession. It was also fiefs from Mainz , the Palatinate , Würzburg , Hohenlohe , Wertheim and Limpurg . To rule counted through fiefs or rights, including u. a. the patronage or Vogteirechte , the places Boxberg, Unter- and Oberschüpf, Sachsenflur , Rosenberg , Schillingstadt , Bobstadt , Epplingen , Dainbach , Uiffingen , Lengenrieden , Kupprichhausen , Buch am Ahorn , Edelfingen , Oberbalbach , Hohenstadt and Schweigern . In further steps his policy aimed at the establishment of a unity in economic and administrative matters.
Death in prison in Vienna
Involved in Grumbach's Handel , Albrecht was arrested in 1566 at the Augsburg Reichstag and was imprisoned at the Hofburg in Vienna . Among his opponents and accusers were above all the Würzburg bishop Friedrich von Wirsberg and the elector August von Sachsen . They raised allegations such as lese majesty and incitement to rebellion and, through their representatives at the Viennese court, urged the execution of the required death sentence. However, Albrecht knew how to defend himself and there were several attempts at mediation by princes, including several times Duke Christoph von Württemberg , who was close to Albrecht , and even the Empress. Letters that fell into the hands of the elector after Gotha was captured in 1567 , where Duke Johann Friedrich II was imprisoned and Wilhelm von Grumbach was finally killed, were used as evidence against Albrecht. Negotiations with Lazarus von Schwendi were also part of the negotiations. Ultimately, Albrecht died in custody in 1572 without a judgment having been pronounced.
With the death of Albrecht, who himself had no descendants, the educated rule fell apart again. He had appointed Eberhard von Stetten to Kocherstetten and Eberhard von Leyen as heirs of the property and the Mainz inheritance .
Remembrance
There are three known illustrations of Albrecht himself. It is a foam coin, a stove plate on which he is depicted together with his second wife in a medallion each and his epitaph in a hide. In a typical form, Albrecht with armor and his second wife kneel in front of the cross as the central motif. The epitaph adorns a number of coats of arms as an ancestral test. His letter book has been preserved, which contains documents beginning with the year 1385, which legitimize his claims to ownership until the time of his own politics.
His deeds found their way into four equestrian songs . The first song mentions him as a brave horseman. Of two similar songs, one is entitled Ein neu Lied by Albrecht von Rosenberg and the Lords of Nuremberg , both underline the honesty of him and the Swabian and Franconian knighthood. The fourth and most famous song, which was sung at the beginning of the 17th century, is about the kidnapping of Baumgartner. Mockery is directed against Nuremberg, which are referred to as pepper sacks .
literature
- Karl Hofmann: Albrecht von Rosenberg - A Frankish knight and reformer. In: New archive for the history of the city of Heidelberg and the Rhineland Palatinate. 7, 1907, ZDB -ID 211493-8 , pp. 207-244, and 8, 1910, pp. 1-45.
- Helmut Neumaier: Knight noble rulership formation in Schüpfergrund. The letter book of Albrecht von Rosenberg († 1572), document regesten 1385–1565 and document appendix 1561–1564 (= publications of the Society for Franconian History. Series 3: Franconian document books and regesta works. 10). Society for Franconian History, among others, Würzburg among others 2006, ISBN 3-86652-310-6 .
- Helmut Neumaier: "Albrecht von Rosenberg. An extraordinary noble life under three Habsburg emperors. Aschendorff Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-402-12905-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Albrecht von Rosenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrecht von Rosenberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial knight with the rule of Schüpf |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1519 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1572 |
| Place of death | Vienna |