Boresch VII of Riesenburg the Elder

Boresch VII of Riesenburg the Elder (or senior , the parent ; in Czech Boreš VII. Starší ; † before 1414) was a Bohemian nobleman from the Riesenburg family .

Life

Together with his brother Boresch IX. From Riesenburg the Younger he received the inheritance of his father Boresch V. von Riesenburg and Beschau . With his brother he gave the Bečov settlement town rights. In 1392 he appeared as the founder of a new church foundation in Dux .

In the second uprising of the sovereigns against King Wenceslaus at the end of 1394, Boresch was also involved. The sovereigns held their meeting this time in Alttabor , in which a delegation met beggars with the king at his castle . In the demands submitted by the higher nobles, they should receive all important offices and thus control and administer the country. This peace agreement did not last long. King Wenceslas imprisoned Margraves Jobst of Moravia and Boček II of Podebrady , against others, including the Giant Burgers, an army was to be raised, led by Bořivoj ze Svinař .

Boresch the Elder, meanwhile back on his dominion, tried to keep the family assets together, but at the same time donated other church institutions. In 1395 Jobst was dismissed and allowed to negotiate, but at the expense of the king's brother Johann , formerly an ally of the king. In 1396 Wenzel tried to get the situation under control again and asked his second brother Sigismund for help. Through its negotiations, another peace was concluded on April 2, 1396, in favor of the Bohemian sovereigns. Boresch was then appointed to the regional court and elected a member of the royal council.

In 1397 the situation worsened again, as the king again considered his favorites of the lower nobility in the allocation of posts in addition to the members of the high nobility. Boresch also joined the newly formed opposition, led by the Moravian Margrave Prokop , which declared its goal to eliminate the king's favorites using force if necessary. The negotiations took place on June 11, 1397 at Karlštejn Castle . Duke Hanusch represented the interests of the absent king. During the negotiations, the king's renegades had the exits of the courtroom occupied with armed men. They summoned four of the loyal advisors to the conference room. As soon as these occurred, Hanusch accused the arrived Burchard Strnada z Janovic of being a traitor, drew his sword and pierced him. Johann Michales von Michalowitz and Boresch von Riesenburg threw themselves on the remaining unarmed councilors and killed them. Only Markolt z Vrutic managed to escape, but died shortly afterwards from the consequences of his serious injuries. Thereupon the assassins went to the king at his seat in the royal court and confessed to him what they had done. Wenzel received the news of the death of his followers apathetically. A month later, he himself accused his murdered councilors of treason.

The political ambitions of the Boresch brothers, declining income from ore mining, high interest payments to the Brüx moneylenders and finally the poor economic situation ultimately meant that the Riesenburger had to sell large parts of their assets. The main beneficiary was Margrave Wilhelm von Meißen .

Others

His and his brother's inheritance was fought not only within the family but also by other nobles in court until the family lost most of it and died out impoverished.