Holštejn (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Lords of Holštejn / Holstein

The Lords of Holštejn (also von Holstein and von Hohlenstein ; in Czech Páni z Holštejna ) were a Moravian noble family that existed from around 1321 to 1492. Their ancestral seat was the Holštejn Castle , which was built in 1278 by Hartmann von Čeblovice.

They are not to be confused with the Mecklenburg, later also Schleswig-Holstein and Danish noble family von Holstein .

history

Ruins of the Holštejn Castle in the Moravian Karst

The progenitor of the Lords of Holštejn was von Wok / Vok I., who is documented for the years 1321-1358. Like the Lords of Sovinec, he came from the Moravian family of the Hrut , but founded an independent family line. Before 1321 he bought the castle Holštejn from the Moravian governor Čeněk von Leipa , a son of Heinrich von Leipa , after which he named himself. He was mentioned for the first time with the predicate "von Holstein / z Holštejna" in 1321 in a document confirming that his mother died that year and was buried in the chapel of the Brno Minorite Church ( mater domini Wokonis de Holensteyn ) . In another document from 1334 it is referred to as Wocke von dem Holenstein . In addition to Holštejn, he owned the forts in Jedovnice and Zdounky and the castles Rabštejn near Trebitsch and Vartnov near Brumovice ( Braunsdorf ).

From Wok's five sons, the first-born Paul / Pavel was able to acquire the Týnec Castle near Lundenburg , the fourth son Ješek "Kropáč" the Grumberk Castle ( Grumberg , also Krummberg , sometimes also Grünberg ; now Stražisko ) with the fortress in Konice near Proßnitz . The second-born son Půta, who is documented from 1358 to 1379 and belonged to the court advisor of Margrave Johann Heinrich , owned the largest property . The Holsteiners reached the greatest extent of their possessions around 1370.

During the Moravian Fraternal Wars, the Holsteiners were predominantly on the side of Margrave Prokop . After his capture in 1402, they reconciled with the Moravian Church, to which they, especially Wok IV, had inflicted considerable damage. They also sought connection with the Margrave Jobst . In 1407/1408 Wok IV succeeded in illegally conquering the Cimburk Castle and in obtaining the consent of Margrave Jobst, with whom he occasionally conducted diplomatic negotiations, to keep the Cimburk. A short time later he also acquired Bohuslavice Castle from Jobst . On the side of King Sigismund , he took part in the battle of Vyšehrad in 1420 , where he was slain by the Hussites. His son Wok V was initially also a partisan of King Sigismund, but turned to the radical camp of the Hussites during the 1420s. Due to indebtedness, he gradually had to sell his father's extensive property, including the lords of Holštejn and Bohuslavice. With him, the Holstein line of men died out in 1466.

The last male descendant of the Vartnov / Wartnau line was Stephan / Štěpán II, who in 1420 acquired the Cimburk rule from Wok V. In 1421 he had to hand over the Vartnov / Wartnau castle to the Opava-Ratibor duke Johann II . As Stephan / Štěpán II left no male descendants, this branch of the family died out with his daughter Sophie / Žofie in 1492.

Master list of the lords of Holštejn

Seal of Wok I. from Holštejn / Holstein

Wok I., occupied 1321-1358, on Holštejn
1. Paul / Pavel, occupied 1358–1374, 1358 on Zdounky, 1368 on Týnec; married to Margarethe / Markéta von Zezína
  1. Wilhelm / Vilém, documented 1376–1378, 1376 on Týnec, married to Kristina NN
2. Wok II., Occupied 1361–1384, 1361 on Holštejn; married to Skonka NN
  1. Wok III., Occupied 1385–1407, 1385 on Holštejn; married to Barbara Hauser [ová]
    1. Wok IV., † 1420, 1406 on Lípovec, 1407 on Cimburk and Bohuslavice; married to Katharina / Kateřina von Mstěnice
      1. Wok V., occupied 1420–1466, on Holštejn, Cimburk and Bohuslavice, 1447 on Račice; married to Katharina / Kateřina von Kněžice
      2. Jan, documented 1412-1421
      3. Susanne / Zuzana I., documented 1436–1459
    2. Andreas / Ondřej, documented 1402–1414; 1404 on Holštejn
    3. Georg / Jiří, † 1436, 1415 on Jedovnice; married to Elisabeth / Eliška von Zástřizl
      1. possible: Skonka, occupied 1463
    4. Margarethe / Markéta, attested 1408–1416; married to Jan Hlaváč von Ronov
    5. Anna II, occupied 1409–1436; Abbess of the monastery Klášter Králové , (previously?) Married to Jan Blud von Kralice
    6. Agnes / Anežka, documented 1417–1437; married 1st to Albrecht von Lesnice ; 2. with Jan Tunkl from Drahanovice
3. Půta, documented 1358–1379, 1358 on Zdounky; 1371–1379 castellan at Hluboký Castle ; married 1. to Elisabeth / Eliška NN, 2. to Agnes / Anežka von Wartenberg
4. Stephan / Štěpán I., occupied 1366–1417, 1376 on Vartnov ( Wart [e] nau ); married to Sophie / Ofka von Sudice
  1. Anna III., Documented 1437
  2. Stephan / Štěpán II., Documented 1411–1449, 1417 on Zdounky, 1429 on Cimburk
    1. Sophie / Žofie, occupied 1459–1492, 1480 on Sentice, 1490 on Náměšť; married to Jaroslav von Lomnice
    2. Susanne / Zuzana II., Occupied 1463–1481, 1481 on Cimburk; married to Jan von Kralice
    3. Elisabeth / Eliška III., Documented 1464–1490; married 1st to Jan von Zator ( Seitendorf ), 2nd to Jan von Kralice
    4. Jutta / Jitka, documented 1464–1489; married to Markwart / Markvart von Lomnice
  3. Ješek "Kropáč", documented 1366-1381, 1377 on Dětkovice, 1379 on Konice; married to Anna von Konice
    1. Son NN, occupied 1410
    2. Stephan / Štěpán "Kropáč", recorded 1407–1420, married to Ofka NN
      1. Jan "Kropáč", documented 1447–1464, 1463 on Skržice
  4. probably: Elisabeth / Eliška, documented 1358; married to Paul / Pavel von Strání
  5. probably: Dorota, documented 1360; married to Reiwald NN
  6. probably: Adléta, documented 1364; married to Frank von Pomněnice
  7. probably: Anna I., documented 1371; married to Svadiger von Haugwitz

Cannot be assigned: Nikolaus / Mikuláš "Ruda", documented 1436–1441

literature

David Papajík: Páni z Holštejna , České Budějovice 2007, ISBN 978-80-86829-24-1 .
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. 317 and 681.

Individual evidence

↑ The previous assumption that Wok I. from Holštejn is identical to Wok I. from Sovinec is questioned or rejected according to the literature given here. See also cs: Vok I. z Holštejna and cs: Páni z Holštejna .
↑ Compare cs: Stražisko

[1] The previous assumption that Wok I. from Holštejn is identical to Wok I. from Sovinec is questioned or rejected according to the literature given here. See also cs: Vok I. z Holštejna and cs: Páni z Holštejna .

[2] Compare cs: Stražisko