Georg von Holle

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Georg Jürgen Holle (* 1513 / 1514 ; † 1576 Haus Himmelreich, Friedewalde ) than Colonel mercenary leader .

family

His parents were Drost Rudolf von Holle zu Hausberge (* 1465) and Gertrud (Kunigunde), née. from Münchhausen adH Haddenhausen . His cousin was Hilmar von Münchhausen , who as a mercenary leader became his closest comrade in arms. Holle was trained at the court of the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise .

In 1537 he married Gertrud von Horne, the heir to Claus von Horne ∞ Gertrud Staël zu Sutthausen. The Lords of Horne had in 1400 in Lengerich (Westphalia) , below the castle Tecklenburg the castle Haus Marck built. In 1539 their daughter Catharina von Holle (adH Himmelreich) was born.

Military career

Three mercenaries

Holle followed in 1542 Friedrich with two troop infantry against the Duke Henry II. (Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) and had since 1543 probably Christoph von Wrisberg in Rhode's (?) Feud against the Bremen Archbishop Christoph von Braunschweig-Lueneburg served. In 1545 he was a colonel with six little flags under Wrisberg in the service of Archbishop Christoph of Bremen and fell from Wursten in shameful breach of peace in Hadeln , which was completely devastated. From Hadeln he followed Duke Heinrich the Elder. J. von Braunschweig until his capture by Landgrave Philipp near Höckelheim .

In 1546/47, for the Schmalkaldic War , Emperor Karl V recruited him and Hilmar von Münchhausen directly through Count von Büren. They brought together 24 ensigns and 4,000 horsemen and fought the battle of Mühlberg in 1547, after which Hilmar was released. In 1548, Holle held Frankfurt am Main for the Kaiser with 12 little ensigns . In 1552 he tried on behalf of Charles V to throw the Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from Trier, where he was beaten. Immediately afterwards he stormed against the French Thérouanne in Flanders and lost an eye from a shot. With Munchausen he fought in August 1557 in the battle of St. Quentin on the Spanish side against the French, where the fortress defended by Coligny was first overrun, captured and plundered by the German colonels Schwendi and Hastatt, then by Munchausen and Holle.

In 1560, the Danish King Frederick II engaged the tried and tested mercenary leaders Holle and Münchhausen for a war against Sweden, the so-called three - crown war . Within a short time they had brought together more than 20,000 mercenaries and invaded southern Sweden in 1561; the sea ​​fortress Älvsborg was successfully besieged, but this - the largest and most independent - company of the two then failed in the vast expanses of southern Sweden because there was no supplies, money or accommodation, and an epidemic broke out on top of that.

Possessions

House of Marck
Grohnde Castle

Georg von Holle was lien holder of Grohnde Castle , which the Münchhausen family held before him and which later took over again. Around 1550 he owned the Marck house . Around 1550 he built the Wasserburg Haus Himmelreich in Friedewalde . From 1562–65 he had Haus Marck expanded into a four-wing Renaissance castle with a two-story mansion and corner towers. In 1565 he bought Gut Velpe . The impoverished previous owner became Vogt in Lengerich.

Georg von Holle was buried in Minden in the St. Marien Church , where a large epitaph commemorates him.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.alt-minden.de/klchronik.html ( Memento from March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Georg Speitel: The Holle epitaph in the St. Marienkirche in Minden. Messages from the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 56 (1984), pp. 113–120.
personal data
SURNAME Holle, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holle, Georg Jürgen von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Landsknechtsführer
DATE OF BIRTH 1513 or 1514
DATE OF DEATH 1576