Georg von Höwen

Knight Georg von Höwen († 1542 in Hungary ), Baron of Hohenentringen , Lord of Hohenkreuz was Obervogt in Tuttlingen from 1534 to 1536 .

Life

In 1498 Georg von Höwen was still referred to as a minor. After the reinstatement of Duke Ulrich , he became Obervogt von Tuttlingen. He was first known when he defended Hohentübingen Castle against the Swabian Federation in 1519 . As Obervogt and Burgvogt on Hohenberg, he was equipped with six armed horses, three guards and three gate guards. In 1536 he was granted four guards, in 1538 he was re-ordered with five horses at the court, and in 1539/40 he was also mentioned at the court in Stuttgart .

Negotiations about the Rottweiler gun

Georg von Höwen worked in the disputes with the Rottweilers as envoy from Duke Ulrich: In 1525 he had left part of his artillery in Rottweil, which the Swiss had not wanted to bring him to the Hohentwiel when he withdrew there. He had given it to the city of Rottweil, as appears from a copy of a letter of gift from 1525.

Knight Hans von Fuchsstein reclaimed this gun in the name of the Duke on January 18, when he wrote to the then Obervogt Georg von Zimmer that, as he will probably remember, it was not a real gift, but only a sham gift that they wanted to secure the gun from the Swabian Federation. But the city of Rottweil did not hand over the gun, even when it was requested again on March 14 of the same year by the barons Georg von Höwen and Eberhard von Reischach, but only sent a copy of the letter of donation issued by Duke Ulrich.

The matter then rested until 1540, when it came up again during the Brandenburg feud . When the Confederates asked the Duke to protect the Rottweiler friends against the Brandenburgers, Ulrich replied that he had had little contact with the Rottweilers since the reconquest of his country. At an event on October 19 of the same year in Baden in Aargau , the Duke had the Confederates tell the story through his ambassadors Georg von Höwen and Eberhard von Karpfen : When he was evicted for the second time in 1523, he had given his large artillery to the city of Rottweil for safekeeping until he could occasionally bring it up to the Hohentwiel. The Rottweilers had agreed to the safekeeping after he had given them the letter and seal to appear as if he had given them the gun free because they had told him that they only requested this letter so that the Swabian Federation would request the gun should that they might hold back the same according to the letter. In return, he demanded a lapel from them, so that they should return his gun to him if desired. But the Rottweilers would have rejected this lapel on the excuse that such a thing would have to be brought to the great council, which would easily betray the matter. But when he later asked for his gun back, they gave him a negative answer with the comment that they were very strange with his request, since they had a letter and a seal that the gun had been given to them.

family

On December 1, 1522 he married Countess Elisabeth von Hohenlohe (* after 1495, † 1540). He fell in Hungary in 1542, about half a year after Peter and Paul, as captain of a Wurttemberg ensign in the war against the Turks.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Rainer Knörle: The Württemberg upper bailiffs in Tuttlingen (1459-1755)
2. ↑ Heinrich Ruckgaber: History of the Free and Imperial City of Rottweil, Volume 2, Part 2, Dr. Rapp & CB Englerth, 1838. Page 182.