Heinrich IV of Rosenberg

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Heinrich IV. Von Rosenberg (Czech Jindřich IV. Z Rožmberka ; * 1427 ; † January 25, 1457 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian nobleman and from 1454 to 1457 governor of the Bohemian hereditary principalities of Breslau and Schweidnitz-Jauer as well as governor of Upper Lusatia .

Life

Heinrich came from the Bohemian noble family Rosenberg . His parents were Ulrich II von Rosenberg and Katharina von Wartenberg (Kateřina z Vartenberka) . In 1444 he stayed at the court of Emperor Friedrich and in 1445 at the court of Duke Heinrich of Bavaria . During the armed conflicts in the time of the interregnum after the death of King Albrecht , he took the side of the Catholic nobles who rejected the Bohemian provincial administrator Georg von Podebrady . In 1448 Heinrich joined the Strakonitzer Einheit, an association of Catholic nobles. In 1450 he was one of the signatories of the complaint of the Strakonitz unit, which accused Georg von Podiebrad in the regional assembly on August 3 of having poisoned the Prague burgrave Meinhard von Neuhaus . He also signed the to Emperor Friedrich III. Directed request, the not yet of legal age in 1443 chosen successor of Albrecht, Ladislaus Postumus , prematurely to grant the royal rights. After the emperor did not comply with this demand, Heinrich and other members of the Strakonitz unit besieged Wiener Neustadt several times in 1452 and demanded that Ladislaus be surrendered. After his coronation on October 28, 1453, Heinrich received as a thank you on December 2. J. gave the royal city of Budweis for life. The donation is said to have been preceded by a corresponding request from Heinrich. Presumably that is why it was rejected by the Budweiser citizens.

At the beginning of February 1454 Heinrich accompanied King Ladislaus sister Elisabeth to Teschen , where he handed her over to her bridegroom, the Polish King Casimir . Then King Ladislaus appointed Heinrich von Rosenberg as governor of the hereditary principalities of Breslau and Schweidnitz-Jauer. This enabled the Rosenbergers to establish closer contacts with the Silesian aristocratic families. In 1455 Heinrich bought back the pledged lordships of Rosenberg and Hohenfurth and released Znojmo Castle . Finally, Raudnitz was also assigned to him.

During his lifetime, Heinrich's father Ulrich II handed over the administration of the Rosenberg estates to his sons in 1451, with the first-born Heinrich representing his brothers Jost and Johann. However, the father took part in the reign until 1456. In 1456 Heinrich moved to Hungary on behalf of the king with a 350-strong cavalry. There he fought against the Turks on the side of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus . On the way back he fell ill and died on January 24, 1457 in Vienna.

His body was buried in the family crypt of the monastery church in Hohenfurth . Since he did not leave any descendants, his youngest brother Johann II von Rosenberg succeeded him .

family

Heinrich's siblings were

  • Jost II of Rosenberg († 1467)
  • Johann II of Rosenberg († 1472)
  • Agnes von Rosenberg ( Anežka z Rožmberka ; † 1488)
  • Ludmilla von Rosenberg († 1490), married to Bohuslav VII. Von Schwamberg
  • Perchta von Rosenberg († 1476) married to Johann V von Liechtenstein

On September 16, 1453, Heinrich married Agnes von Schaunberg († 1461), daughter of Johann von Schaunberg . The marriage remained childless. After Heinrich's death, she received Rosenberg as a widow's estate . In her second marriage she married Michael, Burgrave of Maidburg , Count of Hardegg and Retz .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ K. Jaromír heirs: Ondřej Puklice ze Wstuh, měštěnin Budějowický († 1467). In: Časopis Českého Musea. 20. Jg., 1846, ZDB -ID 402206-3 , pp. 153-211, here pp. 176-184.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich IV of Rosenberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jindřich IV.z Rožmberka (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the hereditary principalities of Wroclaw and Schweidnitz-Jauer
DATE OF BIRTH 1427
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1457
Place of death Vienna