Felix von Werdenberg
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Count Felix von Werdenberg (* around 1480 ; † June 1530) was a descendant of the Count Palatine of Tübingen and murderer of Andreas von Sonnenberg .
Origin and marriage
Felix came from the Werdenberg-Trochtelfingen-Sigmaringen-Heiligenberg line , a side line of the Counts of Werdenberg and was a descendant of the Count Palatine of Tübingen through them. He was a son of Count Georg von Werdenberg and Margravine Katherina von Baden and thus a second nephew of Emperor Maximilian I. One of his paternal uncles was Haug von Werdenberg .
Life
After his father's death, Felix inherited the counties of Heiligenberg , Sigmaringen and Veringen together with his brothers Johann († 1522) and Christoph († 1534) . By marrying a Walloon heiress, he came to rich property in the county of Luxembourg and therefore renounced the county of Sigmaringen with Veringen, which had fallen to him when he was divided, in favor of his brother Christoph in 1510.
Felix von Werdenberg proved himself as a capable warrior and courtier in the service of Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V. He did not lose Maximilian's favor when he killed Count Andreas von Sonnenberg in 1511 . During the Peasants' War he put down the uprising in Hegau in 1525 . In 1529 he supported Charles V when he brought him several thousand mercenaries in Italy.
In 1516 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .
The death of Count Andreas von Sonnenberg
Felix von Werdenberg is best known because he and his followers killed the imperial general Andreas von Sonnenberg on May 10, 1511 in the Ried near Herbertingen. After lengthy inheritance and border disputes, the tall, broad-shouldered Andreas von Sonnenberg mocked his opponent, Felix von Werdenberg, the bride's guide at the wedding of Sabina von Bayern in Stuttgart, because of his small size and accused him of cowardice.
Shortly afterwards, Felix von Werdenberg and some traveling soldiers lay in wait for Sonnenberger, who was returning from a hunt for Scheer , in the bushes and stabbed and stabbed the defenseless Andreas von Sonnenberg, so that he was soon lying on the ground with his horse, seriously wounded. Count Christoph von Werdenberg refused entry to Sigmaringen for his brother Felix and sent a messenger to Scheer to "express his disgust for the deed of his brother and his condolences." see Felix von Werdenberg kneeling in front of a Pieta.
After only manslaughter had been pleaded in the preliminary investigation initiated by the emperor, the Werdenberg received protection from both the counts of Württemberg and the emperor. It was not until 19 years later that he died in the Reichstag in Augsburg either from a stroke or from an execution by beheading.
Its actual end
It is only known that Felix, who had no offspring, died completely unexpectedly on the night of July 11th to 12th, 1530 at the Reichstag in Augsburg, in which his brother Christoph also took part. There is no reliable evidence that he was executed. Since his two brothers had no offspring either, his family died out in the male line as early as 1534.
Web links
- Hans Peter Seibold: The murder of Count Andreas von Sonnenberg in the Donauried near Hundersingen, Link , viewed on February 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans Peter Seibold: The murder of Count Andreas
- ↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 165.
- ^ Ferdinand Kramer: May 1511: Count Andreas von Sonnenberg is murdered near Herbertingen - commemoration of an atrocity.
- ↑ R. Rommel-N. according to Zimmer's chronicle. In: Württembergische Volksbuch - Legends and Stories 2, page 71–73.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werdenberg, Felix von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman, imperial envoy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1480 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1530 |
| Place of death | augsburg |