Jost von Drachsdorf

Jost von Drachsdorf (also Traxdorf , Draxdorf ; † 1529 ) was a Landgrave -Hessian ministerial , most recently court master and privy councilor of Landgrave Philip I. He came from an old Meissen family named after Dragsdorf bei Zeitz , with sidelines in Bavaria and was resident in Alsace , and in 1678 was raised to the status of imperial baron.

Life

Goat mountain; in the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian (1655)

Jost von Drachsdorf first appeared in the Hessian court servants in 1502 . He was married to Margarethe Mohr von Leun, the only child of Johann Mohr von Leun († 1519), from 1497 to 1508 a Nassau bailiff in Herborn . Through this marriage he inherited a number of feudal estates and probably also allodial possessions , including shares in the tithes in Krofdorf and, in 1521, the church sentence in Rodheim, which was touched by the Lords of Runkel zu Fief .

At the latest in 1506 he was selected by Landgraf Wilhelm II. As a bailiff to Eppstein used, and in January 1506 the Landgrave belehnte him for himself and his male and female heirs that he would testify with Margarethe von Leun, with castle and valley Ziegenberg in the Wetterau with all accessories including the clearing interest due there and two mills and the mill ban in the Ziegenberger Mark. In addition, it received a gradient to Wernborn , Pfaffenwiesbach , Langenhain and Fauerbach . The Landgrave, to whom Drachsdorf had returned his fiefdom in Veckerhagen and the promise of man money , reserved certain rights, including the "great wild bans " (on deer and wild boars) and the right to share the fiefdom after the death of Jost and Margarethe 2500 guilders to redeem, but this right to redeem was never exercised.

Drach village was 1,514 landgräflich-Hessian chief official of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen and held this office until the 1519th Afterwards he was court master and privy councilor under Landgrave Philipp I. He died in 1529.

heritage

The Ziegenberger property came in 1557, after the death of Anton von Drachsdorf, the last of his sons, to Konrad Diede zum Fürstenstein , who had married Jost von Drachsdorf's daughter Ottilia in 1540. The fief of 1506 stipulated that if there were no sons, the fief should fall to Jost's daughters and that if a daughter married, her husband should receive the fief in her place. Diede paid 4,000 Reichstaler to his two brothers-in-law, Philipp and Marsilius von Reifenberg, and thus acquired their shares in his father-in-law's inheritance.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rodheim-Bieber, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Landgrave regest online No. 5038. Regest of the Landgrave of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). January 12, 1506: Jost von Draxdorf is enfeoffed with Ziegenberg.