Johann Georg Pucher von Meggenhausen

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Johann Georg Pucher von Meggenhausen (born January 6, 1602 ; † 1664 or after 1680; also Johann Georg Pucher or Puecher ) was an imperial court official in Vienna . He served the three emperors Ferdinand II , son Ferdinand III. and grandson Leopold I.

Life

He came from the old noble family Pucher von Meggenhausen, originally resident in the Swiss canton of Graubünden , and was the son of Reichshofrat Johann Rudolf Pucher von Meggenhausen († 1625) and Maria Wagner .

In 1639 Johann Georg Pucher bought from Dr. jur. Veit Sieß the Zwölfaxing estate . He was also Lord of Kadau and Reichenberg .

In the early years of the Thirty Years' War , Pucher was Imperial Councilor and Secretary of the Court War Council . At this time he made a request to the Elector of Mainz Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt , in which he asked him to confirm the old knighthood , which he was granted in 1635. In 1640 he was appointed to the Imperial War Council - with an annual salary of 1,200 guilders - although he belonged only the gentry, on January 3, 1652 Pucher was in Vienna in the Austrian baron with the title of nobility "and from Meggen Hausen to Kadau , Reichenberg and Zwölfaxing ” . In 1655 he was accepted into the Bohemian gentry . In 1680 he is also known as the secretary of the university .

Pucher von Meggenhausen was married to Maria Catharina Freiin von der Ehr . His children were the son Johann Rudolf and the daughter Marianna . On April 21, 1665, Pucher made his will .

literature

  • Dagmar Schopf: The new admissions to the Lower Austrian Herrenstand between 1620 and 1740 , dissertation (unpublished), Vienna 1966, page 284

Individual evidence

  1. Other sources name 1664 as the year of his death. Then the testament date mentioned below would be 1665 the date of the opening of the will. But who would be the secretary of the same name, first mentioned in 1680 ?
  2. Rolf Kiessling, Anke Sczesny: Spaces and Paths. Jewish History in the Old Kingdom 1300-1800 , p. 74 ( footnote 108 )
  3. ^ Friedrich Freiherr von Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens , Volume 7 (1833), Part 2, page 233 digitized
  4. Other sources give the place Chodau .
  5. ^ Corpus juris hungarici. Magyar törvënytär , 1900, page 652 excerpt
  6. His ancestor Erhard Pucher was knighted in 1443; see Pucher von Meggenhausen . - Source: Adler , monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft "Adler" , Volume 5, Vienna 1901 excerpt
  7. Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years' War in personal reports, chronicles and reports
  8. New Yearbook 81887) , Volume 14, Heraldic and Genealogical Society "Adler", Vienna, 1887, p 127 extract
  9. Reinhardt Butz: Informal structures at court , page 77 (footnote 60), Dresden Talks (Volume 3), Dresden 2007 excerpt
  10. ^ Mark Hengerer: Imperial court and nobility in the middle of the 17th century. A history of communication of power in the premodern , Volume 3 of the historical cultural studies series , UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004, ISBN 3896696947 excerpts
  11. ^ Adler , Volume 5, Vienna 1901
  12. Fragments on the history of the Romanians , Eudoziŭ Hurmuzaki , 1884, page 324 excerpt
  13. ↑ Scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the XIth century to the present day , Volume 2 (Google eBook)
  14. ^ New Yearbook (1900) , p. 228 excerpt