Juan de Hoyos

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Juan de Hoyos (also Johann Baptist I. de Hoyos or Hans von Hoyos, Freiherr von Stixenstein ) (* around 1506 in Burgos ; † 23 May 1561 in Gradisca ) was a Spanish - Austrian nobleman , soldier and founder of the Austrian noble family Hoyos .

Life

Hoyos was the son of the Spanish admiral Sanco de Magnia von Hoyos, Baro di San Martino and the Inés Salamanca. As a child he went to Germany with Charles V from Valladolid in 1520 . Around 1525 he moved to Lower Austria in the wake of the future Emperor Ferdinand I and was one of the earliest Spaniards that can be identified in the Austrian states. He was admitted to the Lower Austrian gentry in 1549 and at the same time, from around 1538 Hidalgo at the court of Emperor Karl V. Hoyos was chamberlain , general field master as well as court war councilor and commander of Gorizia for both rulers . In 1545 he took over the captaincy of Trieste .

Hoyos acquired Stixenstein Castle near Ternitz and the lordship that went with it. In 1548 he married Judith Ungnad († 1572), daughter of Hans Ungnad , and fought in the battle of Mühlberg and in the Turkish wars . Hoyos was strongly committed to the Counter Reformation in the Austrian countries.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Starke, Volume 39, 2006, p. 111.
  2. ^ A b c Christopher Friedrich Laferl: The culture of the Spaniards in Austria under Ferdinand I. 1522–1564. Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98780-2 , p. 242.
  3. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Hoyos, the counts, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, p. 348 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 23, CA Starke, 1960, p. 149.
  5. ^ Johann Samuel Ed .: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order. Verlag Gleditsch, 1834, p. 287.
  6. ^ Christopher F. Laferl: The culture of the Spaniards in Austria under Ferdinand I. 1522–1564 . Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98780-2 , p. 346.
  7. ↑ Heinz Duchhardt, Matthias Schnettger: Reichsständische Libertät and Habsburg Empire. Verlag von Zabern, 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2577-0 , p. 54.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoyos, Juan de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyos Baro di St. Martino, Johann Martin de; Hoyos, Johann Baptist I. Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-Austrian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 1506
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgos
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1561
Place of death Gradisca d'Isonzo