Georg von Hegnenberg

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Georg von Hegnenberg (* around 1509; † 1589 or 1596 in Ingolstadt ) was a German knight . He is the progenitor of the Bavarian noble family Hegnenberg-Dux , which was raised to the baron status in 1654 and expired in the male line in 1902.

Life

Grave monument of Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux in the Hofhegnenberg palace chapel

Georg was born the illegitimate son of the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV and Margarethe Hausner von Stettberg around 1509 (according to other sources, 1511). Georg came to the court of Emperor Charles V as a page and grew up in the immediate vicinity of the emperor. Already at the battle of Pavia (1525) the 15-year-old “fiery youth Georg” showed his courage, recognized King Francis I of France by his bracelet and helped with his capture. To commemorate the victorious Battle of Pavia, Georg was now allowed to wear a coat of arms on which both the lion's body crowned with a prince's hat and four Bourbon lilies are intended to remind of his military test. He called himself now knight Georg Dux (Dux refers to his ducal descent).

In 1535, Emperor Charles V started a campaign to Africa with 30,000 men to recapture the Goletta fortress ( La Goulette ) and the city of Tunis . The emperor got into an ambush from which Georg freed him and thus saved his life. With the courage shown, Charles V accepted the knight into the newly founded "Order of the Burgundian Cross". He was allowed to add the Burgundian cross with the inscription "BARBARIA" to his coat of arms, because in the victorious African campaign 20,000 Christian slaves had been freed from the hands of the Ottoman pasha Khair ad-Din Barbarossa (the governor of Sultan of Suleyman I the Magnificent).

Before the start of the fourth war that Charles V waged against Francis I of France, Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux asked to be dismissed from the imperial service. After returning to Bavaria , Georg became engaged to the court lady Wandula von Paulsdorf in 1542 . The wedding took place two years later in the presence of the Bavarian Duke. In 1542, Duke Wilhelm IV enfeoffed his illegitimate son Georg with the Hofhegnenberg Palace and the Hofhegnenberg Hofmark near what is now Althegnenberg . This is now called after this property Georg von Hegnenberg, called Dux . His descendants bore the names of von Hegnenberg, called Dux or von Hegnenberg-Dux .

When the Kaiser went to war against the Schmalkaldic League in 1546 , the Kaiser appointed five military leaders, one of whom was Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux. In the victorious battle of Mühlberg on the Elbe (1547), the Hegnenberger commanded a regiment. In the same year the Duke of Bavaria appointed the Imperial Colonel of War Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux as governor of the best-developed fortress in Ingolstadt . This gave him the "most excellent military and honorary post in Bavaria". Later he was also a nurse in Abensberg . As a retirement home, he bought Dolling Castle near Ingolstadt.

1554 was Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux award now " Gold Knights call" to be allowed, confirmed in an imperial document as official recognition and on 26 September in 1562 by Emperor Ferdinand I a crest letter .

1,557 Georg was the newly built Renaissance - castle in Hofhegnenberg finish and relate. In 1575, the new Bavarian Duke Albrecht V - his half-brother - not only confirmed him as governor of Ingolstadt, but also enfeoffed him forever with the Hofhegnenberg court mark for his male descendants .

Knight Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux died in 1589 (according to other sources 1596) in the fortress of Ingolstadt. He was buried in the St. Anna chapel in the Franciscan monastery in Munich . When the Franciscan monastery was demolished in the course of secularization in 1802/03 , the valuable grave monument was moved to the Hofhegnenberg palace chapel (where the former Franciscan monastery is now the Max-Joseph-Platz and the National Theater ).

epitaph

The artistically high quality red marble free figure shows Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux with the two-part long beard that extends over the belt, the insignia of a "gold knight", his coat of arms and in full armor .

family

The first marriage to Wandula von Paulsdorf remained childless.

After her death, Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux married Sibylla Langenmantel vom Sparren († 1592) from Augsburg in 1551 , daughter of Joachim Langenmantel and Veronika geb. Welser , as well as great-granddaughter of the knight Johann IX. Long coat from the rafter . With her he had 7 surviving children:

One of the descendants was the Bavarian State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux .

literature

  • Toni Drexler, Angelika Fox: Althegnenberg - Hörbach. Contributions to the history of the Althegnenberg community. St. Ottilien 1996.
  • Franz Etzler: Home to Steinbach and couple. Local history of the municipality of Steindorf. Steindorf 2002.
  • Wilhelm Ernst: Heimatbuch Oberhaunstadt. Oberhaunstadt 1972.
  • Hans Fegert: Ingolstadt districts - the history of upper and lower town. Kösching 2005.
  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart:  Hegnenberg-Dux, Friedrich Adam Justus Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 285-288.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Nedopil: Deutsche Adelsproben , Volume 1, p. 204, Vienna, 1868; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Johann Seifert : Hoch-Adeliche Stamm-Taffeln , Part 3, Regensburg, 1726, 2. Stammtafel der Langenmantel; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Ostermayr: Collective sheet of the historical association in and for Ingolstadt , issue 2, pp. 21–24, Ingolstadt, 1877; (Digital scan)