Cosmas Gienger von Wolfseck

Cosmas Gienger von Wolfseck (also zu Wolfseck) (* Jubilate 1516 in Ulm ? † August 26, 1592 in Linz ) came from a patrician family from Ulm and was for many years Vice Cathedral in Austria on the Enns .

Life

Wolfsegg Castle after an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1656

Wolfsegg Castle after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Cosmas was the eighth son of Knight Ernst Damian (Damian I.) Gienger (around 1475–1556) and Ursula Schütz von Raittenau (around 1480–1523). His eldest brother Georg Gienger von Rotteneck was Vice Chancellor Ferdinand I from 1538. Like his ten brothers, Cosmas went to Austria and entered the imperial military service in 1541, was imperial councilor and man in his thirties in Hungarian Altenburg . After his brother Jakob Gienger von Grienpichel , he became vice cathedral in Austria ob der Enns in 1561 and remained so until around 1582. In 1566 he bought the lien on the estate and Veste Wolfsegg from the heirs of Johann Kurz von Senftenau. On March 16, 1582, Emperor Rudolph II gave him and his family this rule as a property for his special services.

Cosmas Gienger was married twice, the first marriage to Ursula Ernst remained childless. With his second wife Katharina Haidenreich († April 5, 1582), daughter of Erasmus Heidenreich von Bidenegg, archducal court chamber councilor in Innsbruck, and Anna Zott von Pernegg, he had eight sons and eight daughters. Cosmas died in Linz on August 26, 1592 and was buried in the parish church. He was the progenitor of the Gienger von Wolfseck line , which, however, died out again in 1623 with the death of his son Hans Adam, also an Upper Austrian vice cathedral.

literature

• Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities ”Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 182–194 digitized
• Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 317-327.
• Albrecht Weyermann : Messages from scholars and artists, including old and new aristocratic and bourgeois families from the former imperial city of Ulm , Volume 2, Ulm 1829, pp. 126–130, link to books.google.at