Christoph von Beulwitz

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Christoph von Beulwitz was the Brandenburg captain in court and bailiff in Thierstein .

Life

Christoph came from the von Beulwitz family . Among his possessions in Hofer country counted Hirschberg , Gottsmann Green , Hofeck , col wall , snoring Reuth , Erlbach and Eubabrunn . According to the genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann , Christoph von Beulwitz belongs to the Vogtland main line of the Hirschberg family, which he deals with in his volume on the Vogtland knighthood .

During the Reformation he persecuted the local followers of Luther , whom Luther encouraged in a letter in 1531. In 1527 he opened the first court court . In 1530 he used pipe water from the Leimitz tunnel to expand the water supply for the city of Hof.

In 1534 he had four aristocrats from the house of Feilitzsch , Dobenck and Machwitz who were passing through . Margrave Georg then sent the Streitberg bailiff Wolf von Schaumberg to Hof, who took care of the liberation of Machwitz. Christoph von Beulwitz, who had already been summoned to the margravial court in Kulmbach on this matter, secretly left the city with his sons. Then riders came to the city under Christoph von Redwitz, who mobilized some citizens to take Caspar von Feilitzsch prisoner in Zedtwitz . Wilhelm von Dorbenck in Brandstein fled and escaped. Christoph von Beulwitz's wife, after Biedermann Eva, née von Brandenstein, and their daughter had to vacate the Hof Palace . Since Christoph was also the bailiff of Thierstein, his property was confiscated at Thierstein Castle . The background of this incident is not explained at Sichart and Christoph's whereabouts remain unclear.

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personal data
SURNAME Beulwitz, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Captain, bailiff of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century