Johann Rudolf Pucher von Meggenhausen

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Johann Rudolf Pucher von Meggenhausen (* 16th century; † November 16, 1625 ; also Johann Rudolf Pucher or Puecher ) was an imperial court official .

Life

He came from the old noble family Pucher von Meggenhausen, who originally lived in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

Pucher von Meggenhausen began his professional career at the Viennese court in 1595 as a clerk in the Reichshof Chancellery , later he was Reichshofratsekretär under Emperor Matthias and real Reichshofrat as well as secretary under Emperor Ferdinand II.

Together with his brother Georg Niklas Pucher von Meggenhausen, he was given the knightly nobility with an improved coat of arms by Emperor Rudolf II on October 3, 1603 in Prague . The Reichslehen Meckenhausen was transferred to him. In addition, on February 4, 1623 in Regensburg he was granted the personal palatine .

Pucher married Maria Wagner from Transylvania . The couple had two sons, the later Imperial War Councilor Johann Georg Pucher von Meggenhausen and Johann Rudolf Pucher von Meggenhausen , Page with Ambrosio Spinola , the Spanish military leader in the Netherlands .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswald von Gschliesser: Der Reichshofrat , Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria (Volume 33), Kraus Reprint, 1970
  2. ^ Lothar Gross: The History of the German Reichshof Chancellery from 1559 to 1806 , Vienna 1933, pp. 384–386
  3. ↑ Ruth Füchtner, Heike Preuss: The inventory of the Secret Chancellery of the Dukes of Jülich-Berg from the Pfalz-Neuburg house (1609-1716) , materials on Rhenish history (Volume 3), publications by the Society for Rhenish History, Verlag Droste, 1994 , ISBN 3770075862 , excerpt from page 393
  4. ^ Johann Siebmacher: The coats of arms of the nobility in Upper Austria , Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch (volume 27), Verlag Bauer & Raspe, 1984, ISBN 3879470278 , page 277 excerpt
personal data
SURNAME Pucher von Meggenhausen, Johann Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pucher, Johann Rudolf; Puecher, Johann Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial Reichshofrat
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1625