Frebonie from Pernstein

Frebonie of Pernštejn (Czech Frebonie Pernštejn * 1596 , † 6. February 1646 ) was a Bohemian nobleman and founder of the branch of Piasristen in Litomysl in Eastern Bohemia . She came from the Bohemian-Moravian noble family Pernstein , of which she was the last representative.

Life

Frebonie's parents were the director of the kuk artillery Johann von Pernstein and Maria Manrique de Lara the Elder. J. († after 1636). She was a niece of Johann's mother of the same name, Maria Manrique de Lara the Elder. Ä. (1538–1608), and thus a cousin of Johann.

Upon the death of the father, in 1597 in the war against the Turks in Hungary Raab was killed, Frebonie was only one year old. She still had an older sister Anna and a younger sister Eva, who, however, died in childhood. Her older brother Vratislav Eusebius inherited her father's property . Since all four siblings were still young, they were initially under the tutelage of their mother. However, because there was no will of guardianship, this was transferred to her aunt Polyxena , who was a widowed sister of her father , in 1603 . Nevertheless, the children were still under the care of their mother, who married Bruno von Mansfeld for the second time in 1606 . After that Frebonie and her siblings probably lived in Vienna.

Frebonie's brother Vratislav Eusebius died in 1631 during the Thirty Years' War as a result of an injury. Shortly before his death, he made the unmarried, 35-year-old frebonie the sole heir because the older sister Anna had entered a monastery. Frebonie, who is said to have led a pious life, now lived predominantly in the family palace on the Lesser Town Square on Prague's Lesser Town , which her brother had acquired from Maximilian von Waldstein a year before his death and which today serves as the seat of parliament. As the mistress of the Leitomischl rulership , she campaigned for the re-Catholicization that her brother had already pursued . That is why she decided to call piarists to Leitomischl, who are primarily committed to the education of children and young people. While they had had a college in Nikolsburg in Moravia since 1631, their branch in Litomysl was the first in Bohemia.

Frebonie signed the foundation letter about the establishment of a Piarist college in Leitomischl on September 3, 1640. Shortly afterwards, the Piarists sent the first school brothers to Leitomischl. During a visit by Provincial Onuphrius Conti in October d. J., together with the architects and city officials, selected a plot of land near the castle. On January 15, 1642, the Prague Archbishop Ernst Adalbert von Harrach approved the construction of the school and religious buildings as well as an associated church. On November 2, 1644, regular classes at the Leitomischler Piarist High School began.

Two years later, Frebonie died on February 6, 1646. She left behind an important fortune, over which she had already made a will on November 28, 1645. The castle and rule of Leitomischl dedicated it to her cousin Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz , who was a son of her aunt Polyxena, who died in 1642. The Pernstein coat of arms also fell to him. She bequeathed her Prague palace and a portion of Solnice that belonged to the Pernsteiners to the Prague Carmelite monastery at the Church of Mary of Victory . There, since 1631, her grandmother Maria Manrique de Lara d. Ä. Infant Jesus brought from Spain in 1555 was venerated, which Frebonie's aunt Polyxena gave there after the death of Frebonie's brother Vratislav Eusebius in 1631. This is probably why Frebonie wanted to be buried in this church.

literature

• Petr Vorel: Páni z Pernštejna. Vzestup a pád rodu zubří hlavy v dějinách Čech a Moravy . Praha 1999, ISBN 80-86182-24-X , pp. 267, 274, 276f.

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