Johann Georg von Götzen

Johann Georg von Götzen

Count Johann Georg von idols (* 1623 in Zehlendorf , † 23. August 1679 in Castle Scharfeneck ) was from 1653 to 1679 Governor of the province of Glatz .

biography

Johann Georg von Götzen came from the noble family von Götzen . His parents were the imperial field marshal Johann von Götzen and Elisabeth, b. von Falcken († 1631). After his father remarried to Apollonia von Hoditz, Johann Georg and his older brother Siegmund Friedrich were sent to study in Graz, where they converted to Catholicism on Christmas Eve in 1635. The conversion took place in accordance with the provisions of the Count's diploma, which her father had been awarded in 1635. Further studies took place from 1637 in the Netherlands, from 1639 in Vienna and from 1640 at the University of Ingolstadt .

After his father's death at the Battle of Jankau in 1645, Johann Georg joined the military as a volunteer and in 1647 became a cavalry master under General Raimondo Montecuccoli . After the end of the Thirty Years' War he became chamberlain of the Bohemian King Ferdinand IV in 1648. In 1652 he accompanied him to Prague. On May 31, 1653 he took part in his election as Roman-German king in Augsburg and on June 18, 1653 in his coronation in Regensburg.

Three days after Ferdinand's coronation, the latter appointed Johann Georg von Götzen as governor of the County of Glatz. The inauguration on July 16, 1653 in Glatz was carried out by Baron von Nostitz and the prelate of the Grüssau monastery .

On October 9, 1653, Johann Georg von Götzen married Maria Elisabeth Countess von Hoditz in Hennersdorf , whose father Georg Maximilian von Hoditz had been raised to the rank of imperial count in 1641. Emperor Leopold I appointed Johann Georg as real chamberlain in 1658. Three years later he lent him the Scharfeneck and Tuntschendorf feudal estates in the County of Glatz, which had become free after the death of the previous tenant Maximilian Ferdinand von Kochtizky . In the next few years, Johann Georg acquired further properties in the County of Glatz, including the Eckersdorf manor , the Oberhof ( Hauptmannshof ) in Mittelsteine , the Freirichtergut and the Obermühle, and the Pannwitz and Reichenbach allodial knights' estates in Tuntschendorf, as well as a house on Glatzer Marktplatz. In 1673 Johann Georg's wife died giving birth to a child. In 1677 the Emperor awarded him the title of "Secret Imperial Council" in recognition of his services. In his second marriage, Johann Georg married Johanna Ludovica von Nostitz, who, as a widow, married the Troppauer governor Carl Julius Sedlnitzky von Choltitz auf Geppersdorf in 1680 .

Johann Georg von Götzen died at his Scharfeneck Castle; his body was buried in the parish church of Glatz next to his first wife Maria Elisabeth von Hoditz, who died in 1673. He was succeeded in the office of governor by Count Michael Wenzel von Althann .

progeny

Johann Georg von Götzen founded the Catholic Silesian line of those von Götzen. Of his children experienced adulthood:

• Maria Elisabeth Apollonia (* 1657), married the baron Christoph von Sedlnitzky and Choltitz
• Anna Maria (1658–1698), married the Freiherr Blankowsky and Deimbschütz
• Maria Theresa (* 1662), married a Count von Galler in her first marriage and a Baron von Maquaire in her second marriage
• Johann Ernst von Götzen (* 1667) inherited his father's possessions in the County of Glatz, including the feudal estates
• Johann Ignatius (1670–1704), Imperial Captain and State Elder of the Principality of Liegnitz; inherited the rule of Kaltenstein in the Principality of Liegnitz. Since his marriage to Margaretha Freiin von Unverzagt remained childless, his brother Johann Ernst inherited the rule of Kaltenstein in 1704

literature

• Richard Plümicke: The curriculum vitae of the Glatzer Provincial Governor Johann Georg Reichsgrafen von Götzen (born 1623, died 1679) written by himself . In: Glatzer Heimatblätter 1943, No. 1, pp. 14-25
• Richard Plümicke: The large estate of the last imperial count von Götzen from the Silesian line and his heirs in 1771 . In: Glatzer Heimatblätter 1942, No. 2, pp. 49–54
• A. Gierich: The Götzhof in Glatz . In: Glatzer Heimatblätter 1942, No. 2, pp. 54–67