Johann Kaspar von Stadion

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Johann Caspar von Stadion
Bust from 1849 in the Heldenberg Memorial
The Grand Master as a fountain figure in the Teutonic Order Castle in Bad Mergentheim
Tomb in the Capuchin Church Bad Mergentheim

Johann Kaspar von Stadion (born December 21, 1567 in Belfort ; † November 21, 1641 in Ammern near Mühlhausen in Thuringia) was the 45th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1627 to 1641. He was President of the Court War Council and Privy Councilor of Emperor Ferdinand II .

Life

Johann Kaspar von Stadion comes from the Alsatian line of the von Stadion family . His father was Johann Ullrich von Stadion, his mother Apollonia von Nanckenreuth . He was Herr von Freudenthal and Eulenburg. Johann Theobald von Stadion († 1585), dean of the cathedral in Mainz , was his older brother; Franz Kaspar von Stadion (1637–1704), who later became Prince-Bishop of Lavant , his great-nephew.

He joined the Teutonic Order in 1594 and served at the court of Maximilian III at a young age . , also during his campaign in the Balkans and in Hungary in the Long Turkish War . Most recently he was his chamberlain and chief steward . In 1606 he was Komtur in Freiburg , from 1609 to 1628 in Beuggen , in 1626 Landkomtur in Alsace and in 1629 Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy . He was appointed to the Supreme Court War Council by Emperor Ferdinand II in 1619 and appointed to the Privy Council in 1622 . From 1619 to 1624, the first years of the Thirty Years' War , he was an advisor to Maximilian von Liechtenstein . On December 30, 1627 he was elected Grand Master. His reign fell during the Thirty Years' War, after Gustav Adolf had advanced from Sweden to the south of the empire and, after his death, the Swedish general Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar, along with many other cities in the south of the empire, also conquered Regensburg and Nördlingen in 1633 . Johann Kaspar stood as assistant councilor to Ferdinand III. at his side as a military strategic advisor and also participated in the recapture of the city of Regensburg from the Swedes in the battle for Regensburg and then in the battle of Nördlingen .

As a reward for his loyalty to the emperor, he received the Teutonic Order in the Grafschaft Weikersheim, which had previously been drafted by Georg Friedrich Graf von Hohenlohe , with all rights. Leopold Wilhelm of Austria was placed at the side of the elderly Grand Master as coadjutor , but he was repeatedly called to the campaigns as strategic and diplomatic advisor. He died in 1641 while preparing for another campaign of war. He suffered a stroke at 10 a.m. on November 21 in the camp and died at 7 p.m. in a farmhouse in Ammern.

A death shield with his coat of arms can be found in the parish church of St. Martinus in Oberstadion (Alb-Donau district).

A bust of him is in Helden-Allee, built in 1849 at the Heldenberg Memorial in Lower Austria.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Kaspar von Stadion  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Engerisser A previously unknown view of the siege of Regensburg in 1634 . In negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 148th volume Regensburg 2008; Pp. 55-83, pp. 60; ISSN  0342-2518 .
  2. ^ State archive Ludwigsburg archival unit B 249 U 404 , in: Findbuch B 249: German Order: Coming Mergentheim, Herrschaft Weikersheim
  3. ↑ Image at Wikimedia Commons
personal data
SURNAME Stadium, Johann Kaspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfort
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1641
Place of death Bunting