Jakob Gienger von Grienpichel

Jakob Gienger von Grienpichel (also from and to Grünbühel ) (born August 9, 1510 in Ulm ? † November 29, 1578 ) came from a patrician family from Ulm and was vice cathedral in Austria on the Enns .

Life

Grünbühel Castle (Grünbichl) in Kilb

Jakob was the fourth son of Knight Ernst Damian (Damian I.) Gienger (around 1475–1556) and Ursula Schütz von Raittenau (around 1480–1523). His eldest brother Georg Gienger von Rotteneck was Vice Chancellor Ferdinand I from 1538. Like his ten brothers, Jakob also went to Austria and was first Imperial Mautner in Ybbs on the Danube . Then he became court pfennig and kitchen master of the younger Archduke Karl II and Ferdinand II and imperial district administrator. In 1550 Jakob owned Gülten von Kilb , which previously belonged to the Velderndorf family, and in 1552 he acquired the estate and Schloss Grünbühel from Kilian von Velderndorf , which then became the ancestral seat of this line. From 1554 to 1560 Jakob Gienger was Vice Cathedral in Austria ob der Enns and Lower Austrian Court Chamber Councilor in Vienna. In 1565 and 1568 he was the royal administrator of the mining chamber at Neusohl in the Hungarian mining towns.

Jakob Gienger was married twice, the first marriage to Elisabetha von Haideck remained childless. He married his second wife Barbara Kölnpöck, daughter of the noblest Niklas Kölnpöck zu Salaberg and Martha Kornstock, on November 17, 1551 in Salaberg Castle . They had five children and founded the Gienger zu Grünbühel line . His son Niklas was promoted to baron in 1608.

literature

• Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities ”Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 182–194 digitized
• Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 317-327.
• Otto von Alberti : Wurttemberg Nobility and Wappenbuch, 4th issue "Felber - Hailfingen" , Stuttgart 1892, pp. 226–227.
• Albrecht Weyermann : Messages from scholars and artists, including old and new aristocratic and bourgeois families from the former imperial city of Ulm , Volume 2, Ulm 1829, pp. 126–130, link to books.google.at