Caspar Ziegler (bailiff)

Caspar Ziegler († 1515 or 1518 ) was one of the Saxon councilors who had government affairs under themselves during the governorship of the Albertine Wettins in Friesland (1498 to 1515), as well as a Frisian and Saxon bailiff .

Life

He came from the Meissen noble family of Ziegler and was the son of Baltzer (Balthasar) († 1474 or 1478), Lord of Gauernitz , and Anna von Metzsch . His older brother Christoph Ziegler was bailiff of the Meißen office in the Duchy of Saxony . After the death of their father, the brothers initially took ownership of the inheritance jointly. From a later division of the inheritance, however, Christoph emerged as the sole owner of Gauernitz, which is why it can be assumed that Caspar received his inheritance.

When the Saxon Duke and Margrave of Meissen Albrecht III. Caspar Ziegler came to Friesland when the courageous man had received inheritance ownership over Friesland in 1498 as thanks for his victorious campaign against the rebellious Flanders to free the Roman-German King Maximilian I, who was imprisoned in Bruges . Here he was initially employed as castellan of the Van Harinxma house in Sloten . He was also responsible for Zevenwouden (Sieben-Walden), one of three Frisian areas under Saxon administration. While the Duke was absent, he was captured in a Frisian uprising but was released.

After Duke Albrecht III. died in September 1500, his son Heinrich was appointed governor of Friesland. On October 31 of that year he appointed Lieutenants Hugo von Leisnig , Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg , Christoph von Taubenheim and Caspar Ziegler as authorized representatives of the Duke in Friesland with the designation Regent . Just a few days later, Ziegler, together with Wilwolt von Schaumberg , accepted the tribute of the Frisians for Duke Heinrich on his behalf. From 1501 to 1510 he was one of the councilors that had the affairs of government in Friesland under them. During the temporary absence of the governor, he and the other councilors held sovereign power. Of all the Saxon councilors in Friesland, he held this office the longest.

In addition to his duties as a councilor, Caspar Ziegler also worked as a builder in Friesland; he was also from 1501 to 1503 bailiff of Harlingen .

In 1509 Ziegler represented Duke Georg the Bearded at the Reichstag in Worms .

In March 1510 Caspar Ziegler returned to Saxony. In gratitude for his services in Friesland, he received the Schellenberg office as a pledge and was appointed bailiff of the same. The seat of the official administration was Schellenberg Castle, which was later built over from 1568 to 1572 by the lordly Augustusburg hunting lodge .

Caspar Ziegler also owned the manor Polenz near Meißen and in 1514 bought the neighboring pigeon house .

In January 1514 he returned to Friesland for the last time together with Duke Georg and worked here as the chief captain in the battle against Count Edzard I of East Friesland in the so-called Saxon feud .

Caspar Ziegler had been married to Katharina von Miltitz since the 1480s . From this connection two sons and two daughters were born. His younger son was the Hebraist, theologian and reformer Bernhard Ziegler (1496–1552).

literature

• Oebele Vries: De Heeren van den Raede. Biographieën en groepsportret van de raadsheren van het Hof van Friesland, 1499–1811 , Hilversum 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Erwin Ferdinand von Feilitzsch: On the family history of the Germans in particular of the Meissnian nobility from 1570 to approx. 1820 , Großenhain / Leipzig 1896, p. 368.
2. ↑ Oebele Vries: De Heeren van den Raede. Biografieën en groepsportret van de raadsheren van het Hof van Friesland, 1499–1811 , Hilversum 1999, p. 194.
3. ↑ Hans Gerd Dormagen: Friesland under Saxon rule , in: Die Sachsen in Friesland, ed. by Walter Schulz and Klaas-Dieter Voß, Wuppertal 2008, pp. 11–30.