Heinrich I of Liechtenstein

Heinrich I von Liechtenstein (* 1216 ; † May 11, 1265 ) was a nobleman and 1260 governor of Styria . He owned Nikolsburg , Liechtenstein and Petronell . With him the uninterrupted line of ancestors of the later Princely Family Liechtenstein began .

Life

Heinrich's year and place of birth are not known. In 1245 he is said to have participated in the campaign to Thorn against the Prussians . In 1246 he was involved in the battle of the Leitha on the side of the Austrian Duke Frederick the Arguable , in which Duke Frederick was killed. After the Bohemian King Wenceslaus I renounced the duchies of Austria and Styria without a fight after the death of his son Vladislav, who had been married to Gertrud von Babenberg since 1246 , his son, the then Moravian margrave and Bohemian heir to the throne Ottokar II , made an effort . Přemysl , in order to maintain contacts with the nobles resident in the Moravian-Austrian border area, to whom Heinrich von Liechtenstein belonged. During the Bohemian nobility revolt of 1248, Heinrich von Liechtenstein and Albero von Kuenring were in close contact with Ottokar Přemysl. Presumably for this reason he received the South Moravian Nikolsburg with the villages of Pardorf , Klentnitz , Muschau , Tannowitz and Bratelsbrunn as free property with a deed of donation from Ottokar Přemysl from January 14, 1249 .

During the 1251 negotiations for the elevation of Ottokar Přemysl to Duke of Austria, Heinrich von Liechtenstein and Heinrich von Haßbach led the Austrian delegation. After Ottokar II Přemysl took over power, Heinrich von Liechtenstein belonged to the circle of ministerials ( ministeriales Austrie ) together with other noble lords , who acted as chief judges or presided over the Landtaidingen and thus effectively led the government during Ottokar's absence, which was often several months.

Heinrich von Liechtenstein is provincial governor of Styria ( capitaneus Styrie ) for May 24, 1260 , after he had previously held the office of district judge ( iudex provincialis ). On December 25, 1260, Ottokar Přemysl appointed the South Bohemian nobleman Wok von Rosenberg as Heinrich's successor in the office of governor . Nevertheless, Heinrich von Liechtenstein was still one of the influential ministerials. With a certificate issued on May 1, 1262 in Vienna, King Ottokar II. Přemysl once again confirmed the gift of the Nikolsburg rule. Heinrich's son Heinrich II. Von Liechtenstein, however, fought at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278 , in which Ottokar Přemysl was killed, on the side of Rudolf von Habsburg .

family

Heinrich I of Liechtenstein was married to Diemud NN for the first time. From this marriage came the son:

• Friedrich I of Liechtenstein († ~ 1310), married to Agnes von Himperg († after 1310)

In his second marriage, Heinrich married Mechthild NN († after 1265). From this marriage came the sons:

• Hartneid († 1277)
• Heinrich II. Von Liechtenstein, Lord of Liechtenstein and Nikolsburg († April 13, 1314), married to Petrissa von Zelking († 1318)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Liechtenstein, Heinrich (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 125 ( digitized version ).
• Jörg K. Hoensch : Přemysl Otakar II of Bohemia. The golden king . Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-222-11910-4 , pp. 34, 38f., 41, 53, 114, 119, 132

Web links

• The beginnings. In: Clear and firm. The history of the House of Liechtenstein. for the special exhibition of the same name on the website of the University of Graz, March 8, 1996

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ancestry