Georg Niklas Pucher von Meggenhausen

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Georg Niklas Pucher von Meggenhausen (* 16th century; † after 1644; also Georg Niklas Pucher or Puecher ) was an imperial court official .

Life

He came from the original in the canton of Grisons ( Switzerland ) based Austrian noble family Pucher of Meggen Hausen and was the brother of the imperial Reichshofrat Johann Rudolf Pucher of Meggen Hausen . Together, the two were Emperor Rudolf II. On October 3, 1603 Prague in the knightly brought nobility with arms improvement.

Pucher initially served in the Obersthofmarschallamts secretariat . Later he became imperial councilor, prince city attorney and town clerk in Linz , count palatine ( Comes Palatinus ) and landscape conqueror (1629). He was also court judge of the Kremsmünster Abbey .

During the Upper Austrian Peasant War in June 1626, Pucher was on the run as a Catholic in Passau and asked the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I for Salvaguardia for his estate Egendorf and his Freihaus in Wels .

In 1629 he bought two neighboring properties in Linz and built a house on them, which he owned until 1644. In 1633 he acquired the rule of Eggendorf in the Traunkreis and made the castle his residence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , Volume 7, page 208 (footnote 2), Kaiserl. Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical-Historical Class, Vienna 1851 digitized
  2. ^ Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , 1944, volumes 84–89, page 45, excerpt
  3. ^ Archival Journal , Volumes 7–9, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Verlag Theodor Ackermann, 1897, page 280, excerpt with a description of the coat of arms
  4. ^ Felix Stieve: The Upper Austrian Peasant Uprising of 1626 , Volume 2, Page 38, Verlag E. Mareis, 1905 excerpt
  5. ↑ Alexander Wied, Justus Schmidt, Renate Kux-Jülg, Georg Wacha: The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz , Volume 42, Part 1, Institute for Austrian Art Research, Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna, Verlag Schroll, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3703104430 , excerpt from page 270
  6. ↑ Entry about Eggendorf on Burgen-Austria
personal data
SURNAME Pucher von Meggenhausen, Georg Niklas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pucher, Georg Niklas; Puecher, Georg Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial court official
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century