Jacob von Grünthal

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Original signature and coat of arms of Jacob von Grünthal in Eisleben, 1617

Johann Jacob von Grünthal , also modernized Jakob von Grünthal , (* 1570 ; † August 5, 1626 in Voigtstedt ) was a military councilor and general commissioner of the Electoral Saxony , superintendent of the sequestered county of Mansfeld and captain of Sangerhausen .

Life

Jacob came from the Austrian noble family Grünthal , was baptized Protestant and was the son of knight Wolfgang von Grünthal (around 1500–1576), imperial councilor and Upper Austrian vice cathedral and his second wife Ursula Kölnpöck († 1601). Jacob conducted his studies in Tübingen in 1587, in Jena in 1591, in Padua and Bologna in 1594 and finally in Siena in 1595. He fought for Emperor Rudolf II as a volunteer against the Turks in Hungary for eight years. As a Protestant he then became court war councilor and general commissarius of the Saxon electors Christian II and Johannes Georg I. Jacob was also the electoral Saxon envoy to the imperial court in Vienna and other electoral courts, supervisor of the county of Mansfeld and captain of Sangerhausen .

In 1599 he bought Hehenberg Castle from Nemrodt Kölnpöck zu Ottsdorf . Jacob was captured by the Bohemians during the siege of Bautzen in Lusatia in 1620 and released by Elector Johann Georg.

Johann Jacob von Grünthal was the master of Kremsegg , Windtern, Burkersdorf and Volkstatt, and Hehenberg. He married Elisabeth von Pölnitz, the sister of the Electoral Saxon court chancellor Bernhard von Pölnitz zu Schwarzbach, and had three daughters and two sons with her. After his death he was buried on August 18, 1626 in the Jacobikirche in the Electoral Saxon city of Sangerhausen. At that time he was, among other things, the master of Voigtstedt and Volkstedt .

Works

  • Hypomnēsis, Sive Dehortatio Magis, Facta Non Defunctorie, Aut Neglecte Ad Electorem Saxonem, a Grünthalio, sicut se facturum in se ob liberationem suam in Bohemorum gratiam receperat , 1620. online in the DNB
  • (as co-author): Serious and forced against answer / Auff the blasphemous missive / which to the most noble Elector of Saxony / etc. from Mr. Jacob von Grünthal / auff Voigtstedt / Churf. Saxon. KriegsRath ... of the content / That your Elector's Prince Permeability of Keyserlicher Majesty fall ..., 1621. online in the DNB ,

literature

  • Samuel Müller: LeichPredigt / Bey the funeral of [...] Mr. Jacobi von Grünthal / auff Crombseck / to Voigt- and Volckstedt [...] Which the 5th August [...] different to Voigtstedt / and the 18th of the same month at Sangerhausen in the church of S. Jacobi [...] . Meuschke, Altenburg 1626.
  • 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. 201–220, especially 207f. Digitized
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordly and knightly class from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 416-428, especially 420.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ according to the information in the funeral sermon (year of death at Wißgrill erroneously given as 1627)
personal data
SURNAME Grünthal, Jacob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruenthal von Kremsegg, Jakob von; Jacob Grienthaler; Grünthal, Johann Jakob; Grünthal, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German nobleman, court war councilor and general commissarius of the Saxon electors, captain von Sangerhausen
DATE OF BIRTH 1570
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1626
Place of death Voigtstedt