Choustnik

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The Lords of Choustnik (also Chousnik; Chusnik, Chustnik, Chaußnik, Chussingk ; in Czech Paní z Choustníka ) were a Bohemian noble family. Its members held high offices under the kings Charles IV and Wenceslaus IV in Bohemia , the County of Glatz , in Upper Lusatia and in Silesia .

history

The ancestors of the Lords of Choustnik are said to come from the Elbe Valley ( Polabí ). A member of the family is said to have participated in the conquest of Milan under Emperor Frederick I in 1158 and was the first to overcome the Milan city wall. A ladder was therefore included in the family coat of arms when the coat of arms was issued.

The first members known by name were Sezima , who died in the Battle of Lodenitz , and a Hroznata. Under Ottokar II Přemysl they had to leave their possessions in the Elbe valley. This is probably why Hroznata's son Beneš built the eponymous castle Choustník in southern Bohemia before 1282 . It was acquired by Peter I. von Rosenberg in 1322 .

In the course of the 14th century, the Lords of Choustnik came to the estates of Miletín , Dražice, Chotěboř and Gradlitz . Since Gradlitz was owned by Hermann / Heřman von Choustnik from 1398 to 1402, it was later referred to as "Choustníkovo Hradiště". With Hermann's brother Beneš, the family of the Lords of Choustnik died out in the male line in 1410.

They were related to the East Bohemian noble family Dobruška and Opočno . The historian František Palacký , on the other hand, viewed them as a branch of the Kaunitz House as a whole , which, in contrast to the related families Augezdecz, Martinic , Talmberg , Richnowsky von Reichenau, Kaunitz , Stosch and Černčický von Kácov, was the only one to deny its origin through another coat of arms.

Personalities

  • Benesch / Benedikt ( Beneffius ) von Choustnik ( Beneš z Choustníka ) was 1350-1353 Governor of Bautzen , 1353-1358 Governor of the Glatzer country .
  • Herrmann von Choustnik ( Heřman z Choustníka ) was 1398-1402 Chamberlain and 1401-1404 Governor of Bautzen. Died in 1404 with no offspring. His brother
  • Benesch of Choustnik (also Benesch of Chusnik ; Benessius Chusnik de Hradiscz ; Benisch of Chusnik , Czech Beneš z Choustníka ) was from 1382 to 1383 Colonel Schreiber, from 1389 to 1403 Governor of the Czech Erbfürstentümer Świdnica and Jawor as well as Wroclaw and sometimes owner of the castles Fürstenstein and Greiffenstein . In 1409 he was promoted to colonel master of the royal chamber. In the same year he was sent to Italy by the king on a diplomatic mission. He was married to a sister of Johann von Dražice , who inherited the estate after his death in 1410.

literature

  • Jan Halada: Lexicon české šlechty. Erby, fakta, osobnosti, sídla a zajímavosti . Prague 1992, ISBN 80-901020-3-4 , pp. 63f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head in the family coat of arms ( Czech )
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. Mydlovar Castle
  3. ↑ In the literature cited, the year 1179 is given for the battle of Lodenitz.
  4. ↑ František Palacký : Bohemia under the House of Luxenburg, until the death of Emperor Charles IV, years 1306 to 1378. Volume II, Section II, Prague 1842, p. 14f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Benedict
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  7. ↑ [2]
  8. ↑ [3]
  9. ↑ Governor