Hermann von Hatzfeld
Hermann von Hatzfeld zu Wildenburg , Wocklum and Schönstein (* 1527 ; † February 20, 1600 in Balve ) was councilor and Drost zu Balve in Cologne . He belongs to the von Hatzfeld family .
Life
He was the son of Hermann von Hatzfeld zu Werther and Schweckhausen († 1539), bailiff at Bilstein and Wildenburg, and Anna von Droste, heiress of Werther and Schweckhausen , daughter of Richard von Droste and Gertrud von Schorlemer zu Körtlinghausen. He was married to Elisabeth von Pentling, the widow of Heinrich von Bockenförde called Schüngel . Through this marriage, after lengthy legal disputes, he came into possession of Wocklum Castle in 1567 . His second wife was Elisabeth von Rollingen , daughter of Wilhelm von Rollingen and Elisabeth von der Fels . In his third marriage, he was married to his cousin Margarete, daughter of Franz von Hatzfeld zu Merten and Elisabeth von Wylich .
As a staunch opponent of the Reformation , Drost von Balve and Amtmann zu Bilstein and Schönstein , he was one of the most important opponents of the deposed Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg during the so-called Truchsessian War . Truchsess had Wocklum occupied and burned down in mid-August 1583. Hatzfeld was a very wealthy man and made considerable sums of money available from his private fortune in order to maintain troops for Truchsessen's opponent, Ernst von Bayern , the new Cologne Elector. Since the Kurkölner treasury was empty after the end of the war, the elector and the cathedral chapter gave him the castle Schönstein in return for his services and the rule Schönstein as a hereditary fief.
He died childless on February 20, 1600 at Schloss Wocklum. His epitaph in the parish church at Balve shows him armed with a sword.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Friedhoff : The von Hatzfeldt family. Noble living culture and lifestyle between Renaissance and Baroque. P. 13 , accessed April 4, 2009 .
- ↑ Bernd Kirschbaum: Gerhard Kleinsorgen (1530–1591). A historian in Westphalia in the early modern period . BoD, 2005 Partial digitization
Web links
- Hatzfeld residents receive Schönstein as a fiefdom from the Electorate of Cologne , in the commemorative publication 600 years of St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1402 vom Heister zu Schönstein e. V. (pp. 32–35) (PDF; 5.8 MB)
- More about the Hatzfeld-Wildenburg family
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann von Hatzfeld |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hermann von Hatzfeldt; Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Werther-Schönstein; Hermann von Hatzfeld zu Wildenburg, Wocklum and Schönstein; Hermann von Hatzfeld-Wildenburg-Schönstein |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Cologne council, Drost zu Balve, bailiff of Bilstein and Schönstein |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1527 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1600 |
| Place of death | Balve |