Eck von Kelheim (noble family)
The Eck von Kelheim family was originally called Hu (e) ber . Its members were "honorable citizens" of Kelheim , who originally came from Oberndorf near Bad Abbach . The first reliably verifiable family member was Andre Huber , monastery judge of Weltenburg ; this appears for the first time in a letter of sale dated July 25, 1434; his appointment as judge of Weltenburg is confirmed on November 22, 1445. Since 1456 he has been using the name "Eck" ( "Andreas Eck who is called Huber B (W) eylent Richter zu B (W) elthenburg" ), without this being able to be explained with certainty (it is assumed that in 1456 he owned an estate called Eck purchased). Andre Huber (or later Eck ) died in 1462 and is buried in the Kelheim parish church of the Assumption of Mary .
Leonhard the Elder
Leonhard Huber is the most important of his four sons, all of whom were part of the “Honorable” of Kelheim . In 1464, Duke Sigismund von Bayern-Munich pledged the toll and castle office to Kelheim to this Leonhard for ten years, in 1474 he became a castner in Kelheim and in 1481 the caretaker there . So he was at the head of the Kelheim administration. In 1486 he became mayor of the city of Regensburg, then under Bavarian sovereignty . It was a dangerous job, since he had to collect taxes for the duke and enforce judgments; his predecessor in this office, Johann Fuchssteiner , had fled Regensburg for fear of rebellion and outrage. Leonhard Huber first appeared in Regensburg in 1492 with the nobility predicate "noble and vest".
Shortly after he took office, the city council had him incarcerated. One accusation against him was that "he had wrongly reversed his name three times, and perhaps also used three seals, and initially called himself Huebel, then Huber and finally Eck" . Through the mediation of his Kelheim relatives, he was released a few weeks later, but had to leave the city. A few years later (1496), Duke Albrecht appointed him the caretaker in the Donaustauf estate . In 1498 he was able to buy the Hofmark Naabeck , with which Albrecht IV enfeoffed him and thus made him a Bavarian resident . From then on he called himself von Eck permanently . He died on September 25, 1501 and was also buried in the parish church of Kelheim. The Burg Wolfsegg seems (1514, 1523) to his cousin Sebastian Eck to have been awarded, with the circumstances of this ceremony are unknown.
Leonhard von Eck
The son of Leonhard the Elder was the famous Bavarian councilor Dr. Leonhard (Lienhart) von Eck , who came from his father's second marriage to Verena Halder . He also had a brother and two sisters; the sister Afra Eck entered the Geisenfeld monastery in 1486 , later she was a nun in Pielenhofen . The other sister Anna von Eck married the Bavarian knight Willwold von Pirching .
Leonhard began the three-year study of septem artes liberales in Ingolstadt at the age of nine in the winter semester 1489/90. In 1493 he completed his studies with the “magister artium”. After studying in Ingolstadt, he moved to the University of Bologna (1493–1497) and became a "doctor juris" there, then moved to the University of Siena , where on September 30, 1499 he acquired the title of "juris utriusque doctor". After completing his studies, he first entered the service of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach . As a result of the Landshut War of Succession , his two court brands now fell under the rule of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg and he also became a Palatinate-Neuburgian Landsasse. In 1508 he took the feudal oath to the Count Palatine Friedrich (at that time guardian of the still underage dukes Ottheinrich and Philipp ).
In 1512 he was called to Munich by Duke Wilhelm IV , where he was employed as a councilor for a year. In 1514 he was dismissed at the urging of the landscape because he had made himself unpopular because of his efforts to strengthen the position of sovereign. In 1515 he was hired again as a councilor for four years and in 1520 he became "daily councilor in Munich" for life. He was the most important advisor to the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV the Steadfast and from 1518 more or less directed all Bavarian politics. However, he was never Chancellor, but Dr. Johann Neuhauser (1514–1515), Dr. Augustin Lösch (1515–1536) and Dr. Johannes Schwa (pp) bach (February 2, 1536–1558) a.
As an influential person, he was able to acquire a large fortune, although it is known that he had an open hand for bribes of all kinds and from all sides (at that time these bribes were euphemized as "gifts of honor", "hand ointments" or even just as "admiration" designated). His sovereign does not seem to have had anything against such donations, since he was always informed about them by Leonhard von Eck and gave his consent. Leonhard von Eck is seen as a pioneer for the creation of central authorities and a modern state apparatus in Bavaria. On the other hand, he is an adversary of the Habsburgs and did not shy away from entering into alliances with Protestant rulers against the Catholic emperor. Emperor Charles V therefore complained bitterly about him at the Augsburg Reichstag on April 9, 1548, “just as Christ had Judas among his disciples! Such a traitor is also among you, it is the Eck, that villain who even surpasses Judas in meanness and wickedness ... because for money he sells Christ, Fatherland, the kingdom and the whole world "
In 1520, Leonhard von Eck also came into the possession of the Randeck an der Altmühl rule (from the originally imperial property of the Counts of Abensberg , who was drafted by Albrecht IV after the death of the last Abensberger, Niclas von Abensberg ), to the Egersberg rule and Dachenstein near Riedenburg as hereditary pledge. Through his wife Felizitas von Freiberg (widow of Dietrich von Plieningen auf Eisenhofen ) he married Eisenhofen Castle near Hof in Upper Bavaria in 1520 . In 1516 he sold Naabeck with all accessories to the Ehrenreichs . Allegedly he then acquired Hofmark Wolfsegg in 1533 , as well as the Hohenwarth, Käfersdorf, Kleinduggendorf and Sachsenhofen estates around Wolfsegg . In 1541 Eck bought the Hofmark Holzheim am Forst from Jörg von Raidenbuch . In 1549, Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria even left him the “ Old Ducal Castle ” in Ingolstadt. Leonhard von Eck was thus one of the largest landowners in all of Bavaria, he owned a total of 13 court brands as well as countless goods and feudal rights.
Leonhard von Eck was unable because of his many obligations in state and imperial politics (e.g. his fight against Protestantism , he was the political head of the Swabian Confederation , the suppression of the peasant uprisings in Bavaria, the fight against the emperor and the Habsburgs ) did not take up residence in Wolfsegg, but mostly stayed in Munich or Kelheim. He died on April 17, 1550 in Munich and, like his father, was buried in Kelheim. The Freising Prince-Bishop Freiherr Eckher von Kapfing reports about it: “One of them died terribly. His wife was just at the Vischen at Eisenhouen, when he was dead from his poeth that night. And by the door of the room, look so pale. Even though his waiter was awakened and looked up as Sye, Sye found him, besides being watered, often without living on the ground. ” He left his son a fortune worth 70,000 guilders, of which two thirds were in debt.
Oswald von Eck
The next owner of Wolfsegg was the only son of Leonhard von Eck , namely Oswald von Eck . He was probably born in 1523 at Wolfsegg Castle. He was tutored by Johannes Aventinus , studied at the University of Ingolstadt in 1529 and even became the rector there in 1539. In 1542 Oswald von Eck was enrolled as a student at the University of Padua . He became sub-marshal of Regensburg and hereditary marshal of the Regensburg monastery . 1542–1543 he was the district judge of Burglengenfeld . In addition to Wolfsegg, he owned Randeck Castle in the Kelheim and Brunn districts and Hofmark Holzheim am Forst. Oswald von Eck was married to Anna von Pienzenau and had four children with her.
As early as 1560, Oswald von Eck pledged the Hofmark Wolfsegg for 4,000 guilders to the Regensburg patrician Hans III. Thumer , but his son was only able to take over the fiefdom of Wolfsegg after lengthy disputes.
He stepped to Protestantism and took under Count Joachim von Ortenburg to a noble conspiracy of so-called. "Chalice movement" against the sovereign Duke Albrecht V part. Due to his change of religion, his opposition to the Bavarian sovereign and wrong management, he lost most of his fortune. On August 15, 1564 he had to sign the original feud . As a result, he lost his Upper Bavarian possessions and his position as a Bavarian landlord. He died in 1573 at the age of 50.
“ Has brought together a great estate, but it was not well built through him, in 10 or 12 years what his father conquered in 40 years, was again on, whether it was his fault or the property, God knows, so he and his wife Children of almost all of his goods ceded in 1564 so that the creditors could pay, and Eisenhofen, Schneittach, Ospach, Haunstatt, Raudeck and other things were sold. He then became Count Palatine Wolfgan gs Landrichter zu Burglengenfeld. Repainting moved to Kelheim again; † 1573. "
Family tree of the von Eck family
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- Peter Huber (occupied since 1444)
- Peter Huber, matriculated at the University of Ingolstadt in 1473
- Cristoff Huber, 1483 judge to examine.
- Andre (as) Hu (e) ber, from 1444 judge of the Weltenburg monastery, called himself “von Eck” from 1456; † 1462, ∞ Elspet Hertenfeldt
- Sigmund von Eck, called Huber 1461
- Sebastian von Eck, Chief Justice of Ingolstadt, ∞ N. von Hintzenhausen
- Leonhard Huber (Eck), * 1439, from (Naab-) Eck since 1498, († 1501), carer from Kelheim and on Donaustauf, 1. ∞ Margarete Schmidhauser († 1475), 2. ∞ Verena Halder von Weilheim; † 1491
- Notburga, ∞ Hans Sinzenhofer zu Teublitz
- Afra Eck 1486 nun in Geisenfeld monastery , later nun in Pielenhofen
- Anna von Eck Ritter ∞ Willwold von Pirching
- NN (brother)
- Leonhard von Eck, ducal councilor in Munich, (* 1480; † 1550), ∞ Felicitas von Freyberg
- Maria von Eck († August 13, 1570), 1st marriage ∞ Wilhelm Freiherr von Schwarzenberg (1544), 2nd marriage ∞ Hans Graf Schlick zu Passau, 3rd marriage ∞ Alexander Graf Schlick
- Oswald von Eck auf Wolfsegg, (* 1523; † 1573), ∞ Anna von Pienzenau (2 sons, 2 daughters)
- Hans Walther von Eck, nurse to Neustadt (1580), councilor and nurse to Kelheim (1593), hereditary marshal of the Regensburg monastery
- Sigmund von Eck, called Huber 1461
literature
- Peter Segl: Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550); Origin, career, politics . Verlag der Weltenburger Akademie, Abensberg 1981.
- Edelgard Metzger: Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550). Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1980.
- Hugo Graf von Walderdorff: On the history of Wolfsegg Castle and the Wolfsegg, Schönleiten, Gögglbach, Nabeck, Nabburg, Lengenfeld, Bocksberg, Bruckberg, Au (= separate print from the LX. Volume of the negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg ). J. & K. Mayr, Stadtamhof 1908.