Georg von Waldenfels (statesman)

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Georg von Waldenfels (* before 1440; † 1491 or 1492) was a Brandenburg statesman, as a close advisor to the Elector Frederick II. And Albrecht Achilles appeared, led important diplomatic negotiations and as a chamberlain and at times as a bailiff exercised high offices. In 1470 he was governor of the Mark Brandenburg . In the favor of the elector, he acquired extensive property.

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Georg came from the von Waldenfels family . His father had the name Caspar, which occurs more frequently in the family . His sons were Georg, Fritz and Caspar. The family had come to the march with Friedrich I and were very close to him through the connection between his daughter Margarete and Martin von Waldenfels. The genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann does not deal with this Brandenburg line, he only knows Martin von Waldenfels.

Georg was first mentioned in a document in 1440. During the entire reign of Frederick II he was his chamber master, in addition he was temporarily governor of Neumark and later of Lusatia and also conducted important diplomatic negotiations. He was a member of the Swan Order . He was generously rewarded by the elector, so he received the old Berlin residence as a free castle loan as a gift and the Plaue office as an inheritance. Georg built a bridge over the Havel , which was equipped with extensive customs rights. Further acquisitions made him one of the richest landowners in Brandenburg. Initially initiated into Friedrich II's plans to abdicate, he was then also one of Albrecht Achilles' close advisers . He was appointed one of eleven governors of the Margraviate of Brandenburg for the margrave and from October 1470 new elector Albrecht Achilles, who was in business on the Plassenburg, as long as he was not in the country. He acted as a mediator in the marriage between Friedrich von Liegnitz and Ludmilla von Podiebrad .

He kept in close contact with the main branch of the Lichtenberg family and mediated in disputes. He participates in the Waldenfels feud by attacking Nuremberg merchants near Frankfurt on the Oder .

The established Brandenburg possessions of the family went into disputes with the Elector Joachim , u. a. in the Minckwitz feud, largely lost again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : sex = register The Empire - Frey - immediate knighthood country to Francken praiseworthy local = Gebürg ... . Bamberg 1747. Plate CCLXV.
  2. ^ Mario Müller: Dietrich von Stechow, Bishop of Brandenburg 1459–1472. Regesta on the Vita and the episcopate. Published in: Sascha Bütow, Peter Riedel, Uwe Tersp (eds.): The Middle Ages end yesterday. Contributions to the regional, cultural and religious history of Heinz-Dieter Heimann on his 65th birthday. Lukas Publishing House. ISBN 978-3-86732-188-4 . P. 114 f.
personal data
SURNAME Waldenfels, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of Lower Lusatia; Brandenburg statesman
DATE OF BIRTH before 1440
DATE OF DEATH 1491 or 1492