Hašek von Waldstein

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Hašek von Waldstein (also Haschek von Waldstein ; Haßke von Waldstein ; Czech Hašek z Valdštejna ; † 1452 or later) was a military leader in the Hussite Wars and a Bohemian mint master and governor of Moravia , the County of Glatz and von Frankenstein .

Life

Hašek von Waldstein came from the Moravian family branch Jettenitz of the Bohemian noble family Waldstein . Together with his brother Beneš he received from the Moravian margraves Jost and Prokop Hungarian Ostra in 1405 , which King Wenceslas Hašek owned alone in 1411 according to a fiefdom confirmation . In 1420 Hašek took part in the battle of Vyšehrad on the side of King Sigismund . There he was captured by the Hussites who threatened to take away his Moravian lands. Presumably because of this, Hašek switched to the side of the moderate Prague Hussites, who appointed him their commander in January 1422. Subsequently, Ostroh Castle, which they called “The New Tabor”, became their military center in Southeast Moravia. From here they attacked the Velehrad monastery on January 12, 1421 and burned it down. In the same year, the Olomouc bishop Johann von Bucca tried to recapture Ostroh with Austrian armies without success. 1423/24 Hašek held the office of the Bohemian mint master. It was not until 1424 that the imperial family succeeded in conquering Ostroh under Duke Albrecht , which Albrecht subsequently handed over to the Hungarian magnate Stibor ( Stibor ze Stibořic ), from whom it came to the former Hussite captain Friedrich von Ostrorog . Although Hašek von Waldstein again joined King Sigismund's side after the defeat of the Hussites in the Battle of Maleschau and was appointed Moravian governor , he never got Ostroh back.

1434–37 Hašek held the office of governor of the County of Glatz and the neighboring Weichbilds Frankenstein in personal union . In 1438 he acquired the former Wartenberg dominions Welisch and Brad near Jičín . In 1443 he was attacked in Welisch by the injured Beneš von Mokrovous and held captive at his Mokrovousy fortress . There he was freed by the Königgrätzer army. Hašek is last recorded for the year 1452, when he sold the rule of Welisch to the then provincial administrator and later King George of Podebrady .

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  1. Pavel Sedláček: Vztahy river made Kladskem a Frankenštejnskem ve 14. a 15. Stoleti. In: Kladský sborník 2, 1998, ISSN  1212-1223 , pp. 117–123, here 122.