Henry VII (Fürstenberg)

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Death shield of Count Heinrich VII von Fürstenberg in the crypt church of the Fürstenbergers in Neudingen Abbey

Heinrich VII. (* 1464 ; † July 22, 1499 ) was Count von Fürstenberg from 1484 until his death in the Battle of Dornach , as well as Landgrave von der Baar , Lord of Wolfach , Haslach and Hausach .

Life

Heinrich von Fürstenberg came from the main line of the Fürstenberg family and was the son of Count Konrad, who ruled from 1441 to 1484, and Countess Kunigund von Maetsch . After the death of his father on April 24, 1484, Heinrich VII and his brother Wolfgang von Fürstenberg joined the government in the Principality of Fürstenberg . From June to November 1486 Heinrich was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem , some of which is documented in a travel report by Conrad Grünenberg .

Heinrich's uncle Gaudenz von Matsch was the strong man at the court of Duke Siegmund of Tyrol in Innsbruck . Heinrich was appointed one of the councilors of Siegmund on January 6, 1485, following in his father's footsteps. On February 11, 1486, this appointment was confirmed for six years and Heinrich again declared his loyalty and secrecy. In 1487, Duke Siegmund started a war against the Republic of Venice , which exacerbated his financial difficulties. To mitigate this he pledged the Austrian foreland under the influence of his councilors on July 12, 1487 to Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria . The pledge represented a breach of the Habsburg family laws and, if it existed, could not have been triggered due to the financial situation of Siegmund. That would have meant the permanent loss of these Habsburg lands. Emperor Friedrich III. took energetic countermeasures and forced Siegmund to withdraw the pledge. His councilors were prosecuted for high treason and on January 8, 1488 with the imperial ban. This also affected Heinrich VII von Fürstenberg, who, like other councilors, escaped arrest by fleeing. With the intercession of his brother Wolfgang, Emperor Friedrich pardoned Count Heinrich on May 7, 1489.

In the Swiss War Heinrich received his first military command in a war. On April 24, 1499 Maximilian appointed him field captain of the Habsburg and imperial troops in Sundgau and Breisgau . In his camp in Altkirch he gathered troops, where he had great difficulty paying the mercenaries. He hardly initiated any military action worth mentioning. When Stockach was threatened by the Confederates at the end of May , Heinrich came to help. However, he was able to turn back at Waldshut , as the Swiss had withdrawn. In mid-June he advanced from Altkirch to Haustein and devastated Solothurn villages. One month later Heinrich decided to attack Dorneck Castle . On July 22nd, his troops camped near the castle and everyone expected the sparsely occupied Solothurn fortifications to fall quickly. Trusting the news about the withdrawal of federal troops from the greater Basel area, Heinrich's carelessness went so far that he did not explore the area and set up guards. The count ignored news of the approaching Swiss and warnings from his captains. Heinrich died on July 22nd, 1499 in the battle of Dornach . Shortly after the beginning of the battle, he fell in an attack by Bern , Solothurn and Zurich troops on the Swabian camp. Count Wolfgang and King Maximilian tried several times to get the Swiss to hand over the body of the fallen Heinrich, but were unsuccessful. The inheritance of the deceased went to his brother. The Solothurners refused to hand over the body of Heinrich, who was buried in Dornach. There is a memorial plaque in the grave of the Fürstenbergers in the Neudingen monastery .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich VII. Graf von Fürstenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Description of the journey from Konstanz to Jerusalem  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also Rietzler, Geschichte… pp. 390–392
  2. ^ Friedrich Hermann Hegi: The outlawed councilors of Archduke Sigmund of Austria and their relations with Switzerland. (1487-1499). First part: The processes at the Innsbruck court. (1478-1488). Innsbruck 1907, p. 23 in the Internet Archive
  3. ^ Fürstenbergisches Urkundenbuch: Collection of sources on the history of the Fürstenberg house and its lands in Swabia. 4. Sources on the history of Count v. Fürstenberg 1480-1509 , Tübingen 1879, p. 38 digital copy of the Düsseldorf University Library
  4. ^ Friedrich Hermann Hegi: The outlawed councilors of Archduke Sigmund of Austria and their relations with Switzerland. (1487-1499). First part: The processes at the Innsbruck court. (1478-1488). Innsbruck 1907, p. 104 in the Internet Archive
  5. ↑ see Riezler, Geschichte p. 395
  6. ↑ see Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch: Bilibald Pirkheimer's Swiss War and Honorary Trade with His Enemies at Nuremberg. Basel 1826, pp. 179–184 online in the Google book search
predecessor Office successor
Konrad von Fürstenberg Count von Fürstenberg
with Wolfgang
1484–1499 		Wolfgang von Fürstenberg
personal data
SURNAME Henry VII
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Fürstenberg (1484–1499)
DATE OF BIRTH 1464
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1499
Place of death Dornach SO