Johann II of Pernstein

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Johann von Pernstein (Czech Jan z Pernštejna ; * around 1406; † December 28, 1475 ) was a Moravian nobleman and follower of the Hussites . Later he was appointed by the Bohemian King George of Podebrady as Chief Chamberlain of the Brno Regional Court and in 1473 appointed by the opposing King Matthias Corvinus as one of the four governors of Moravia .

Life

Johann's father Wilhelm I von Pernstein († 1422/26) was in the service of Margrave Jobst , from whom influential state offices were assigned to him. Johann's mother was Wilhelm's second wife Agnes / Anežka von Pottenstein or the third wife Anna von Sternberg .

Johann is first recorded for the year 1427, when he and his father sold a piece of land to the abbess of the Doubravník monastery , which was founded by Stephan / Štěpán von Medlov , a predecessor of the Lords of Pernstein . In the same year he was authorized by his father to manage his assets independently. In 1429 he participated on the part of the Hussites in the incursion into Saxon Meißen , which was burnt and looted. After he was accused by several knights from the villages belonging to the Pernstein rulership in 1434/36 of having wrongly held their villages in his possession, he tried to settle the feuds.

After the death of the Bohemian sovereign Sigismund in 1437, Johann von Pernstein rejected his son-in-law Albrecht II as his successor and sat down with Hynek Ptáček von Pirkstein for the candidacy of the not yet eleven-year-old Casimir IV , a son of the Polish king Władysław III. one that could not be enforced.

The widowed Johann was probably married to Bohunka von Lomnitz around 1441 . Their father Johann von Lomnitz transferred the liens over the margravial fiefs Zubstein and Pyssolecz as well as Bistritz to him around this time . Before 1434 he got the Mitrov pledge, which Hynek Hlaváč gave him and which belonged to him under inheritance law at the latest in 1448, as the corresponding entry was made in the land table that year . He acquired the Křižanov estate from the heirs of the late Sigmund von Křižanov . He also made claims to lands in Tišnov that actually belonged to the Porta Coeli monastery , which was destroyed in the Hussite Wars . In 1462 he acquired the Jimramov estate from Johann Tovačovský von Cimburg and his wife Sophie von Kunstadt . He also inherited the Zubstein, Pyssolecz and Bistritz, which had been held as pledge since 1446, from King George of Podebrady. In 1463, 1467, 1469 and 1470 Georg von Podiebrad authorized Johann von Pernstein and his sons Sigmund, Wilhelm, Jan and Vratislav to usufruct the lands of the Porta Coeli monastery. Through the acquisitions and prescriptions he was able to expand his property considerably.

Johann von Pernstein, who from the 1460s held the post of Chamberlain of the Brno Regional Court, was an excellent expert on Moravian regional law. Although he was loyal to King George of Podebrady, after his death in 1471 he switched to the side of the opposing king Matthias Corvinus. In 1473 he was appointed one of the four governors of Moravia. Around this time his second-born son Wilhelm came to the fore with increasing frequency. When he acquired the Helfenstein estate , Johann appeared as a witness.

On his death in 1475, Johann von Pernstein left his sons and young widow a large fortune. At his request, he was buried in the Doubravnik monastery church. His widow married Marquart von Lomnitz before 1480 and after his death with Berthold / Pertold von Tworkau before 1482 .

In the Prague National Library there is a Bible manuscript from 1471. It is richly decorated with illuminations and contains the coat of arms of Johann von Pernstein, which indicates that it was commissioned by him. That is why it is referred to as the “ Pernštejnská bible ”.

family

Johann von Pernstein was married three times. His marriage to Barbara von Waldstein ( Barbora Brtnická z Valdštejna ) came from

  • Sigmund / Zikmund (* around 1437; † 1473/75), follower of King George of Podebrady
  • Katharina / Kateřina (* around 1437; † 1449)

After Barbara's death (before 1445), John married Bohunka of Lomnitz ( Bohunka Mezeřícká z Lomnice ), who died before 1475. That marriage came from

  • Wilhelm (1438–1521), Oberstlandkämmerer of Moravia, Oberstlandmarschall and Obersthofmeister of Bohemia
  • Johann / Jan (* around 1460–1480)
  • Vratislav von Pernstein († 1496), Oberstlandkämmerer of Moravia; ∞ around 1488 Ludmilla († 1493), daughter of Jan Heralt von Kunstadt

Before 1475, Johann married Margarete / Markéta von Vranov for the third time. From this marriage came his youngest son

  • Emmeram / Jimram (* around 1465; † 1481/82)

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SURNAME Johann von Pernstein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jan II.z Pernštejna (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian nobleman, Chamberlain of the Brno Regional Court and governor of Moravia
DATE OF BIRTH around 1406
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1475