Georg von Schütz zu Purschütz
Johann Georg von Schütz zu Purschütz , also Georg Schütz von Purschütz a . Ä. (* around 1600; † July 16, 1681 in Innsbruck ) was an imperial field sergeant .
Life
origin
Schütz came from an old Bohemian noble family , whose ancestral seat was Pürschütz .
Career
He was initially secretary to Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly , then in the service of Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre in France for five years . After that he entered the imperial military service.
During the Thirty Years' War he came to Geislingen , where he married the local noble heiress from the von Hohenberg family. In 1661, as commandant of the Rheinfelden Fortress , he sold his share in Riegel , which he had held since 1656 . As early as 1661 and 1662, Emperor Leopold I enfeoffed him with parts of the Geislingen moated castle in the Free Pürsch in Swabia , all of which he bought in 1666. Presumably due to a battle won in the fourth Austrian Turkish War (1663–1664), Schütz, who was an admirer of the Blessed Mother Mary, had the Holy Cross Chapel in Geislingen, which had been destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, rebuilt and the donor's picture depicting his family.
On April 25, 1664, he was promoted to Sergeant General. In this function, the 77-year-old was given the task of defending Freiburg during the Dutch wars (1672–1677) in 1677 . During the French siege of Freiburg , he handed the city over to Marshal François de Créquy as commandant in 1677 . For this he was brought before a court martial in Vienna . His property was initially confiscated and he was arrested in Innsbruck, where he finally died on July 16, 1681 without ever having seen his manor Geislingen, where his wife lived, again. According to older tradition, he was released from arrest and acquitted after the allegations made against him could not be proven. On the other hand, the public opinion was that the highest chancellor Johann Paul Hocher (1616–1683) was responsible for the fact that his hometown Freiburg in 1677 was occupied with too few troops to be able to hold out against the enemy siege. In addition to good qualities, Chancellor Hocher was said to be bribery, and so he is said to have accepted a gift of 75,000 thalers from the Dutch alone, who left behind a capital fortune of over 700,000 thalers on his death .
family
From his marriage to Anna Elisabeth von Hohenberg († after 1686), daughter of Karl Freiherr von Hohenberg (1584–1628) and Maria Jakobine von Stotzingen (1605–1635), granddaughter of Karl, Margrave of Burgau, who came from the House of Habsburg (1560–1618), had five daughters, including:
- Anna Maria Schütz ∞ Ferdinand Karl Freiherr von Rost, Imperial Captain of Vorarlberg
- Maria Jacobea Felizitas contactor ∞ Anton Freiherr von Rost, Imperial Councilor, caregivers of Vils, who as also imperial envoy at the three federations on Schloss Rhäzüns resided → parents of the Prince Bishop of Chur , Joseph Benedict of rust (1696-1754) and the Abbot of Sankt Mang monastery , Leopold von Rost (1704–1750)
- another daughter was married in 1677 to Ferdinand Franz Escher von Binningen , Freiherr von Umkirch and Hofenheimb (* 1642), who owned the Umkirch Castle near Freiburg, in 1677 imperial captain and governor of the city and dominion of Waldkirch , Castelberg and Schwarzenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geislinger founder picture.
- ↑ a b c d City of Geislingen, Official Gazette, year 2015, number 26, p. 5. pdf; accessed on August 13, 2018
- ↑ a b c Adler monthly, p. 40 f.
- ^ A b Franz Dammert: Freiburg in the second half of the XVII. Century. Volume 2, in: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the Adjacent Landscapes Freiburg im Breisgau 1887, pp. 112–150.
- ↑ Georg Schaffner: History of the market town bar . Freiburg 1843, p. 37.
- ↑ Hermann Kopf : Christoph Anton Graf von Schauenburg (1717–1787): Rise and fall of the district chief in Breisgau , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, p. 35.
- ^ State Archives Sigmaringen , Dep. 38 T 1 No. 841.
- ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial and Royal Generals 1618-1815. Austrian State Archives , Vienna 2006 p. 91. (PDF; 453 kB)
- ^ Johann Sporschil : History of the emergence, growth and size of the Austrian monarchy , Volume 5, Leipzig 1844, p. 520.
- ^ German biography : Hocher, Johann Paul.
- ^ New magazine of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg , Innsbruck 1839, p. 106.
- ↑ Gottlieb Schumann: European Genealogical Hand-Book , Volume 1, Leipzig 1752, p. 176.
- ↑ Biographia Benedictina : Leopold von Rost.
- ^ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1898, p. 317.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütz zu Purschütz, Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schütz zu Purschütz, Johann Georg von (full name); Schütz von Purschütz, Georg; Schütz von Pürschütz, Georg; Schütz von Burschitz, Georg; Schütz von Burgschütz, Georg; Schütz von Birschitz, Georg; Schütz von Burschig, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial General Field Sergeant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1600 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1681 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |