Fox sword from Fuchsberg

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Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg (also: Degenhard Fuchs von Fuchsberg ; * around 1450 in Jaufenburg in Passeier ; † December 1527 in Kufstein ) was an Austrian military and imperial councilor . He came from the knightly Tyrolean noble family of the Fuchs von Fuchsberg .

Life

Knight Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg was married from 1481 to Eva von Frundsberg, a sister of the field captain Georg von Frundsberg . Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg (1482–1542) was their son, who, like his father, was first an Austrian military and imperial councilor, but was later appointed Bishop of Brixen . The headquarters of Degen Fuchs may have been in Jaufenburg or Eppan .

Act

In his capacity as Captain von Kufstein , Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg issued the “ Fuchsbrief ” on behalf of Emperor Maximilian I in 1506 , which laid down the state and tax law of the then Reich Prelature Berchtesgaden in writing. The Berchtesgaden peasantry had filed a complaint against the provost Balthasar Hirschauer because of excessively high taxes . Even if Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg had rejected the farmers' complaints in all essential points in his decree and thus the position of Hirschauer prevailed, two things remain remarkable for the circumstances at the time: In this legal dispute, the "subjects" appeared unified and Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg had With his “Fuchsbrief” for the state of Berchtesgaden he formulated a first legally binding, written contract between the rulers and the “landscape”.

The LMU also leads Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg as Governor of Tyrol . According to Ladurner, however, he only held this office for a few months from mid-December 1483 to around March or April 1484.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sword Fuchs von Fuchsberg In:
    Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - History of the country and its inhabitants . P. 81
    Rudolf von Granichstaedten Czerva: Meran - Burgraves and Lords of the Castle     . Österreichische Staatsdruckerei , Vienna 1949. p. 83
  2. ^ Degenhard Fuchs von Fuchsberg In:
    Fuchs von Fuchsberg, Degenhard in LMU : Kaiser und Höfe . Personal database of courtiers of the Austrian Habsburgs, online at kaiserhof.geschichte.lmu.de
    A. Helm, Hellmut Schöner (Ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. P. 95, 96
    Degenhart Fuchs von Fuchsberg In:
    Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 2, p. 94. ( full text in the Google book search)
  3. ^ A b Fuchs von Fuchsberg, Degenhard in LMU : Kaiser and Höfe . Personal database of courtiers of the Austrian Habsburgs, online at kaiserhof.geschichte.lmu.de
  4. ^ A b c Rudolf von Granichstaedten Czerva: Meran - burgraves and lords. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei , Vienna 1949. p. 83
  5. ↑ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works . Volume 2, p. 94 ff. ( Full text in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 79-85
  7. ^ Justinian Ladurner : Governors of Tyrol . 1865. 2nd edition, p. 34
    “... but already appears on the Friday after St. Lucien Day 1483 / Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg, knight as governor and burgrave, but administered both offices for only a few months, since already on the Friday before Cantate 1484 for the third time Jörg von Annenberg, Erzh. Rath appears as administrator of both offices. "
personal data
SURNAME Fox from Fuchsberg, sword
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Captain von Kufstein
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
DATE OF DEATH December 1527
Place of death Kufstein