Georg Hans von Peblis
Georg (Johann) Hans von Peblis (* 1577 ; † April 8, 1650 in Zurich ) was a Palatinate colonel and diplomat in the Thirty Years' War . His name is also quoted as "Pöblitz", "Peuplitz", "Peblicz", "Publiz" or "Peblitz".
His parents were born Schotte and privy councilor Wilhelm Peblis and his wife Johanna von Eltin (* 1550 - May 17, 1616) daughter of the council and governor of Lahr Jakob von Eltin . The council was governor of Margrave Ernst Friedrich von Baden-Durlach , strictly Protestant and was nicknamed "the Calvin Bapst zu Durlach". His sister Anna Maria († August 4, 1631) was married to the Princely Anhalt council and court master Friedrich von Schilling , Katharina Elisabeth von Peblis († January 14, 1653) was married to Christoph von Krosigk , Juliane Ursula von Peblis († 1655) was the second wife of Diederich von dem Werder .
From 1599 he studied at the University of Heidelberg and then entered English and Palatinate military service. In 1610 Hans Peblis was in the Union Army in Alsace. He came to the Upper Palatinate in 1611 with the riders of Colonel Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut . He became a lieutenant colonel and then a colonel and later governor of the Palatinate monastery of Selz . He fought in the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 . After the defeat of the Protestants, he defended together with the Scots Andrew Gray Cham. That was besieged from September 16, 1621 by the league players . The fortress was handed over on September 25, but, contrary to Maximilian I's promise, the withdrawing crews were plundered, "the horses stolen, most of the younger soldiers' wives kept and a number of men shot".
At the end of 1621 he received an order from Mansfeld to conquer the Madenburg . The well-fortified castle was difficult to conquer, but the occupation surrendered on April 21, 1622.
In 1622 Peblis was temporarily employed in Zurich, then in Danish service. In May 1623 Christian von Braunschweig and Gabriel Bethlen , Prince of Transylvania, tried to recapture Bohemia for the Protestants. In addition, there should be an uprising in the Upper Palatinate under Peblis' leadership. Mansfeld did not support him, as he died on November 29, 1626. How close the connection to Peblis was is shown by the fact that he was appointed executor of Mansfeld's will. Peblis then went to Switzerland and began reorganizing the Zurich war system in 1629. In 1630 he was a trainer for the Zurich rural militia. Later he was also back in the Swedish service. In 1633/34 he was a member of the Consilium formatum , the council of the Heilbronner Bund , and a member of the Fruit-Bringing Society - called "the gentle one". In 1639 he was back in Switzerland and was entrusted with planning Zurich's city fortifications.
Charles I of England granted the colonel a pension of £ 500 from December 16, 1628. His widow Gertrud Hammerstein received the pension until November 22, 1652.
literature
- Leonhard Haas: Sweden's policy towards the Confederation during the Thirty Years War . In: Swiss contributions to general history , 9 (1951), pp. 95 ff.
- Abraham Scultetus, Reinhard Wolf: wedding, birth, baptism, royal acceptance and funeral sermons , funeral sermon for Johanna von Ettler
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Of salvation. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon , p. 1614 digitized
- Reto Weiss: Peblis, Georg von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 7, P. 78, digitized
Web links
- Hans von Peblis on 30jaehrigerkrieg.de
- State Archives of the Canton of Zurich
Individual evidence
- ↑ also: Ettler
- ^ Carl Friedrich Schilling von Canstatt: Gender description of those families of Schilling , p. 304, digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peblis, Georg Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pöblitz; Peuplitz; Peblicz; Public; Peblitz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palatinate colonel and diplomat in the Thirty Years' War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1577 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1650 |
| Place of death | Zurich |