Hans von Warnsdorf

Hans von Warnsdorf (also: Hans Woelfl von Warnsdorf ; also Johann von Warnsdorf ; Hanusch von Warnsdorf ; Czech: Jan z Varnsdorfu ; Hanuš z Varnsdorfu ; Hanuš Velf z Varnsdorfu ; † after 1489 ) was a supporter of the Bohemian King Georg of Podebrady . From 1454 to 1474 he held the office of governor of the Bohemian district Glatz, which was elevated to the county of Glatz in 1459 . In addition, from 1456 he was governor of Münsterberg and from 1458 to 1465 captain of the Frankenstein area .

Life

Hans Woelfl von Warnsdorf came from the von Warnsdorf family , a north Bohemian knight dynasty from Warnsdorf , who settled in Upper Lusatia in the 12th century and whose most famous representative was the Commander of the Johanniter in Zittau , Heinrich von Warnsdorf († 1346), who was considered by some historians possible author of the Dalimil Chronicle .

Hans von Warnsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1412 when he acquired Sloup Castle together with the village of Sloup and Radvanec from Heinrich Berka von Dubá ( Hynek Berka z Dubé ) . In 1424 he acquired the villages of Janov and Nedostojov at Sloup with the local works. In the same year, the Bohemian Queen Barbara von Cilli pledged him the estate of Trautenau with the towns of Königinhof and Arnau , whose widows' estate it had been since 1437. From Matěj Salava von Lipá ( Matěj Salava z Lípy ) he acquired the nearby Skály Castle and the Jungbuch and Altenbuch festivals near Trautenau. Around 1441 he also received Schatzlar Castle , not far from Trautenau , from which he repeatedly undertook armed raids against the cities of the neighboring Silesian principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer . To prevent this, the Silesians took possession of the castle. As armed conflicts subsequently continued, the principality's estates demanded an extension of the armistice with the Trautenau captain Hans von Warnsdorf at a meeting in Pelhřimov in 1450 . He was accused of requesting a renewal of the homage in a letter to the estates and of wanting to force this from the state hat and other cities.

It is not known why the Catholic and descent after German Hans von Warnsdorf joined the Utraquist Georg von Podiebrad . As early as 1453, he confirmed the rule of Trautenau for life; a year later he assigned him the neighboring Schatzlar lordship as a hereditary fiefdom . On 3 May 1454 he was, together with the Catholic nobleman Zdeněk of Sternberg , Jan von Rabstein , Ulrich ( Oldřich ) Zajíc of Hasenburg and Heinrich von Michalowitz ( Jindrich of Michalovice ) a Czech delegation, which in Wroclaw on behalf of the king Ladislaus the Should receive homage from the estates and the Wroclaw Council. Also in 1454, Georg von Podiebrad, in his capacity as guardian of the underage King Ladislaus Hans von Warnsdorf appointed governor of the Bohemian district of Glatz, which Georg von Podiebrad, who had risen to become king, raised to the county of Glatz in 1459 . On July 29, 1954, Hans von Warnsdorf appointed the council of the residential town of Glatz . In 1456 he was present as a witness when the official handover of the Silesian Duchy of Münsterberg to Georg von Podiebrad took place at the Glatzer Castle .

As Governor of Glatzer, Hans von Warnsdorf earned the full confidence of Georg von Podiebrad, who was elected King of Bohemia in 1458. From 1458 to 1465 he also held the office of governor for the neighboring soft area of Frankenstein. As early as March 1458, King Hans von Warnsdorf sent together with the Cheb captain Otto von Sparneck and Dietrich von Janowitz ( Dětrich z Janovic ) to the gathering of the Silesian princes in Liegnitz , the capital of the Duchy of Liegnitz . The meeting was about the recognition of George's royal dignity, which the Silesian princes and especially the councilors of the cities of Wroclaw and Schweidnitz opposed. Since the homage could not be achieved and the Silesians were still fighting the "heretic king" Georg, Hans von Warnsdorf had numerous villages attacked and plundered by his mercenaries. When he continued his warlike endeavors, the Silesians finally paid homage to King George of Podebrady in Liegnitz. In 1462 the king sent his confidante Hans von Warnsdorf to Vienna, where he met Emperor Ferdinand III. who was besieged by rebellious subjects in his residence. As Governor of Glatz, Hans von Warnsdorf tried to keep the Glatz clergy out of the dispute between the Utraquists and the representatives of the Catholic Church. Probably because of this, Provost Michael Czacheritz accepted him into the community of the Glatzer Augustinian Canon Monastery .

Even after Georg von Podiebrad's death in 1471, Hans von Warnsdorf retained the office of Governor of Glatz until 1474. On April 24, 1472, he and Podiebrad's son, Count Heinrich d. Ä. Without a fight, the city of Braunau in northeastern Bohemia was occupied, which was occupied in 1469 by the field captain of the Bohemian rival king Matthias Corvinus , Franz von Hag, and whose mercenaries were still in the city. Immediately afterwards, the Glatzer also took the neighboring town of Politz . As a result, the Braunauer Land and Politz came under the rule of Heinrich the Elder until 1483. Ä., Who incorporated both with the consent of the Bohemian King Vladislav II of his county Glatz. From Braunau, too, Hans von Warnsdorf continued to raid Silesia. Because of the threats associated with this, individual Silesian cities made voluntary and, in some cases, agreed war funds and contributions to Count Heinrich the Elder. Ä.

Together with Duke Heinrich d. Ä. as well as the Bohemian nobles Wilhelm Kruschina von Lichtenburg , Peter Kdulinec von Ostroměř and Christoph von Talkenberg auf Talkenstein, Hans von Warnsdorf took part in the peace negotiations between Bohemia and the Silesian representatives in Braunau in 1477 as the representative of King Vladislav II . There he spoke as the first of the Bohemian representatives. In the same year he and his son-in-law Friedrich von Schönburg or Schumburg ( Bedřich ze Šumburka ), who was married to his daughter Katharina, transferred the “vff Silesian granecz” town of Landeshut together with the bailiwick and other accessories. In 1482 Duke Heinrich d. Ä. The East Bohemian goods of the Wiesenburg , however, demanded it back three years later.

family

Although Hans von Warnsdorf was married twice, he left no male descendants. The name of his first wife is not known. In his second marriage he was married to Eufemia von Waldenburg ( Eufemie z Valdenburka ). This marriage had two daughters.

• The daughter Katharina was married to the captain of the Königgrätzer Kreis , Friedrich von Schönburg († after 1492), to whom Hans von Warnsdorf gave the fiefdom of Schatzlar in 1471 and of Trautenau in 1472.
• The first name of the second daughter is unknown. She was married to Georg Schoff ( Jiří Šof ).

literature

• Friedrich Bernau: Hans "Wölfel" von Warnsdorf - most important medieval ruler of Schatzlar. In: Karl Prätorius, Hellmut Weber (ed.): Schatzlar. A Sudeten German city in the Bohemian Giant Mountains and the district municipalities. A home book with individual contributions. Weber, Beckingen 1993, pp. 96-98
• Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , pp. 544, 619.
• Karl Prätorius: Comparative Timeline Bohemia – Trautenau – Schatzlar . In: Karl Prätorius, Hellmut Weber (ed.): Schatzlar. A Sudeten German city in the Bohemian Giant Mountains and the district municipalities. A home book with individual contributions. Weber, Beckingen 1993, pp. 617-653.
• Martin Šandera: Hanuš Welfl z Varnsdorfu. První zemský hejtman Kladského hrabstvi . In: 550 let Hrabství Kladského. 1459-2009 . Kladský sborník . Supplement. Vol. 6). Muzeum Podkrkonoší, Trutnov 2009, ISBN 978-80-903741-3-3 , pp. 99-116.
• Martin Šandera: Jindřich I. Minsterberský - První hrabě Kladský a jeho majetková základna. In: Kladský Sborník. 6, 2004, ZDB -ID 2032107-7 , pp. 7-21.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 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.
3. ^ Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer country. DOBU-Verlag et al., Hamburg et al. 2006, ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 79-80
4. ↑ Laurenz Wintera: The Beifriede von Braunau in the year 1477. In: Communications of the Association for the History of the Germans in Bohemia. 37, 1899, ZDB -ID 516634-2 , pp. 190-205, here p. 194.