Friedrich VI. from Walsee

Family coat of arms of those of Walsee

Friedrich VI. von Walsee (* around 1340; † December 11, 1372 ), from the ministerial family of the Walseer , a follower of Duke Albrecht III. , was 1367-1368 / 72 Land Marshal of Lower Austria and 1369 Governor of Styria .

Surname

Walsee-Ens line with Friedrich V and Friedrich VI. (3rd row, 6th and 10th from the left)

The cousins Friedrich V. von Walsee and Friedrich VI. von Walsee are occasionally confused. Friedrich V was the youngest son of Reinprecht I von Walsee , Friedrich VI. however, the eldest son of Reinprecht's younger brother Friedrich II. von Walsee . Due to the age sequence of the two fathers, the cousin, who only died in 1408, was given the number V from historiography, while the cousin who died in 1372 was given the number VI. wearing. This also led to Friedrich VI. von Walsee was Land Marshal of Lower Austria from 1367, while the lower numbered Friedrich V von Walsee only held this office from 1403-1405.

Life

After the death of her father Friedrich II von Walsee in 1355, little is known about the life of the brothers Friedrich VI for a decade. and Henry VI. known from Walsee . In any case, Frederick VI. have shown special skills because Duke Albrecht III. entrusted the responsible office of the Lower Austrian Land Marshal in 1367. Friedrich VI exercised this function. apparently until his untimely death. His younger brother Heinrich VI. From 1374 to 1379 von Walsee was a (regional) captain on the Enns .

Possessions

Duke Albrecht III. awarded in 1357 to Friedrich VI. as the eldest of the brothers, the Freyenstein festival for his and his brothers' lifetime. In 1361, Duke Rudolf IV also handed him the bailiwick of the goods belonging to the Bavarian monastery Wetten in Eisdornach (Eisenreichdornach near Amstetten) .

Friedrich VI. and his younger brother Heinrich VI. von Walsee made a division of their inherited estates on August 3, 1361. Accordingly, Friedrich VI. mainly the Lower Austrian estates including Freistadt . Henry VI. received mainly the Upper Austrian possessions.

Soon after the separation of property in 1361, Frederick VI began. with the construction of Niederwalsee Castle (now Wallsee Castle) as a counterpart to Oberwalsee Castle in Upper Austria, which his cousin Eberhard V. von Walsee built from 1364. Both buildings were intended to keep the Walsee family in memory over the centuries.

When Friedrich VI. When he died in 1372, his daughter Afra finally passed a number of smaller estates to the Liechtenstein family , Hartenstein Castle to the Maissauer , Nieder-Walsee with the neighboring villages of Sumerau (Sommerau) and Sindelburg, but to his brother Heinrich VI., Who moved his residence there.

family

→ Main article : Lords of Walsee

literature

• Max Doblinger : The Lords of Walsee. A contribution to the Austrian aristocratic history. From the archive for Austrian history (vol. XCV, second half, p. 235) printed separately. (= Archive for Austrian History. Volume 95, pp. 235–578, I-15103/95, ISSN  0003-9322 .) Vienna 1906, 344 pages (especially chapter “The branch of Ort and Sumerau: Friedrichs II. Sons Friedrich VI. († 1372), Wolfgang III. And Heinrich VI. († 1398). ”Pp. 102–110).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 102.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Doblinger 1906, p. 105.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 106.
4. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 107.