Georg Wisbeck

Georg Wisbeck , also called Georg Wispeck and Jörg von Wiespeck (* before 1487; † 1518 in Velburg ), was treasurer and captain of the Archbishopric of Salzburg as well as chief captain on the side of Elisabeth and Ruprecht von der Pfalz in the Landshut War of Succession .

Georg (Jörg) comes from the Salzburg ministerial family of the Wispeck and is documented for the first time in 1487 as a knight in the Regensburg tournament society. His marriage agreement with Katharina Nothaft von Wernberg dates from October 24, 1487 . Later a Hans Heinrich Notthracht von Wernberg was married to the granddaughter of George, Amalie von Wispeck , and had a corresponding coat of arms affixed to his Triebenbach Castle .

Life

In 1491 Duke Albrecht IV appointed him arbitrator in a dispute between Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach and Wolfgang Ahaim zu Wildenau because of the care of Tettelham .

In 1502 he got into a dispute with Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach about military service because, in his opinion, he had been paid too little. He went to the Duke George of Bavaria and formally announced a feud to the Archbishop (letters of rejection of August 17th and 19th, 1502) in order to get his supposed justice. His marriage to Katharina Nothaft zu Wernberg may also have played a role in this. In the course of the disputes, he attacked the Tettelham Fortress and destroyed it. The archbishop then excommunicated him for destroying church property. Georg Wisbeck was not impressed by this, but attacked various Salzburg possessions; he even forced a high payment from the abbot of St. Peter's Abbey if he wanted to remain unmolested by him. At the mediation of Duke Georg der Reiche von Bayern-Landshut , the Archbishop of Mosburg compared himself with the Wis basin for a high payment of 7,000 guilders and an annual pension of 400 guilders.

In the Landshut War of Succession , Jörg Wiespeck stood as the highest captain on the side of a coalition against Emperor Maximilian I and Duke Albrecht IV. Georg von Rosenberg temporarily replaced him in this function , but took over the high command again after his death. Although the Palatinate Party suffered a defeat in the Battle of Wenzenbach , Jörg was one of the fiercest opponents of peace negotiations. In order to disrupt this, he attacked Vilshofen in December 1504 , but had to retreat to the main base in Landshut after heavy losses . In return, Reinprecht, acting on the part of Duke Albrecht, should turn away from Reichenburg Niederbayern , d. H. clear of the Palatinate troops and their allies. Reinprecht advanced from Rosenheim via Laufen to Ried im Innkreis . Here he was expecting Austrian reinforcements and at the beginning of January 1505 was able to move on to Schärding and further into the Rottal valley with 3,000 foot servants and 700 sticks under heavy looting . He set up his headquarters in Eggenfelden and sent out loot commands in all directions. On January 23, 1505, the sub-captain Jörg von Seinsheim advanced with 300 brushwood to the west and captured Vilsbiburg , which was only two miles from Landshut. Wisbeck pursued the retreating enemies with 200 sticks and reached them at Gangkofen . First he challenged Jörg von Seinsheim to a duel. He accepted, but was run from his horse and stabbed to death by a servant of Georg Wisbeck. The subsequent battle remained more or less undecided, but the imperial troops took more prisoners. This attack, the last major battle in the Landshut War of Succession, gave Georg Wisbeck a great reputation among the peasants, who - in misjudgment of the facts - saw in him a liberator from the foreign yoke. Wisbeck had saved his gun honor and his reputation as a brave soldier, but nothing more. The war was lost for the Palatinate party, and the Lower Bavarian legacy was subsequently divided.

In 1506 Georg was one of the commission agents in the taxation negotiations, during which the inheritance for the grandchildren of Georg the Rich , Ottheinrich and Philipp , was determined. In 1510 and 1514 he was a councilor to the Palatinate as well as a district judge and caretaker in Lengenfeld Castle . For his services as field captain in the Landshut War of Succession, Georg received the rule of Velburg from Duke Philipp von der Pfalz on October 14, 1507 , as did Schönberg Palace and the seat of Greilsberg. He and his son Hans Adam called themselves "zu Velburg und Winkl ". In 1509 he was enfeoffed with the neck court of Wernberg Castle . In Velburg, Georg Wisbeck set out to enforce imperial sovereignty in his territory. He was very successful in rounding off the fragmented area of ​​his rule by buying several goods, such as Adelburg , which was destroyed in the war in 1507 , a Meierhof in Altenveldorf (the forerunner settlement of the city of Velburg) in 1510 , two farms in Gastelshof in 1513 and most of it in 1517 from Seubersdorf and much more.

City parish church of St. John the Baptist in Velburg

Georg Wiesbeck died in 1518; he was buried in the town church of Velburg. A red marble slab reminds of this knight. His successor was his son Hans Adam Wiesbeck in 1523 , who successfully continued his father's acquisition policy and expanded the Velburg rule.

literature

• Sigmund Ritter von Riezler :  Wisbeck, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 536-538.
• Rädle, Herbert (2000). The Wies basin at Velburg. An energetic knight family from the Upper Palatinate of the 16th century. The Upper Palatinate, 88, 70-73.
• Helga Reindel-Schedl: Running on the Salzach. The old Salzburg nursing courts Laufen, Staufeneck, Teisendorf, Tittmoning and Waging. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Altbayern Heft 55). Commission for Bavarian History. Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7696-9940-8 .
• Reindel-Schedl, Helga (1982). The gentlemen of Wiespeck. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 12, 253-286.
• Johann Siebmacher: Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book. Volume 28. The coats of arms of the nobility in Salzburg, Styria and Tyrol. Facsimile reprint of the Nuremberg edition 1701–1806. Battenberg, Munich. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Gugau: Studies on the Landshut War of Succession of 1504/1505. The damage and its repair. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4387-5 .
2. ↑ Manfred Jehle: Parsberg. Nursing offices Hemau, Laaber, Beratzhausen (Ehrenfels), Lupburg, Velburg, Mannritterlehengut Lutzmannstein, offices Hohenfels, Helfenberg, imperial lords Breitenegg, Parsberg, office Hohenburg . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Altbayern issue 51). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981. ISBN 3-7696-9916-5 , pp. 253-268.