Jakoubek z Vřesovic

Jakoubek z Vřesovic , German Jakob von Wrzessowitz , († around 1461 ) was a nobleman from Moravia , a military leader in the Hussite Wars and a diplomat.

Life

The impoverished Moravian country gentleman came to Bohemia during the Hussite Wars and, after the death of Wenceslas IV, sided with the Taborites . There he became one of the leaders of the Hussites over time and, after the death of Jan Žižka, one of the captains in Tábor and Bilin .

Jakoubek conquered Aussig in 1426 and held it for ten years. He also led campaigns of conquest in Saxony and Bavaria . In 1432 he took part in the negotiations between the Hussites and representatives of the Basel Council in Eger . Until Sigismund was elected King of Bohemia, he stood at the side of the orphans , then after the election he was one of the royalists. As a gift he received the manors of the monastery in Teplitz , Ploschkowitz and Theusing in Bohemia .

During the reign of Albrecht II of Habsburg , Jakoubek was appointed captain of the Saaz and Leitmeritz district and entrusted with diplomatic tasks. After 1448 he supported the election of Georg von Podiebrad as king and accumulated a fortune, the foundation stone of the Wrssowecz family (in Bohemia) from the house of the Sekerka von Sedczicz, (Wrschowetz von Werschowitz-Sekerka and Sedczicz).

Contemporaries often saw him less as a captain of the Hussites than as the commander of mercenaries , who, according to Jaromir Malý (1885–1955), editor and writer, “brave, sly and combative in nature, but erratic in his views and too much on his own Was well considered ”. Jakoubek then belonged to the Hussites who put self-interest above the ideal goals of the reform movement.

literature

Hermann Hallwich : Jakaubek von Wřesowitz. A contribution to the history of the Hussite movement . In: Mittheilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen , Vol. 4 (1866), pp. 33–49 (as a separate print: Haase, Prague 1870).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Wřesowitz, Jakaubek von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, p. 201 ( digitized version ).

Web links

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2868/Rodokmeny/Vresovic.txt ( Memento from October 17, 2000 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families . Family history, lineage and description of the family coat of arms. Degener & Co, Neustadt ad Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 346 to 349 .

personal data
SURNAME	Vřesovic, Jakoubek z
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wrzessowitz, Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Moravian nobleman, military leader and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1461

[1] Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families . Family history, lineage and description of the family coat of arms. Degener & Co, Neustadt ad Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 346 to 349 .