Karl I. (Münsterberg-Oels)

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Drawing of the epitaph for Charles I and his wife Anna von Sagan

Karl I. von Münsterberg (also: Karl I. von Podiebrad , Czech: Karel z Minstrberka ; * 2-4 May 1476 in Glatz ; † 31 May 1536 in Frankenstein ) was Duke of Münsterberg and Duke of Oels and Count of Bald . From 1519 to 1523 he held the office of Governor of Upper Lusatia , from 1523 he was Colonel Governor of Bohemia, from 1524 Governor and from 1527 Governor of Silesia .

Life

Karl was a grandson of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady . His parents were Heinrich d. Ä. von Münsterberg and Ursula von Brandenburg , daughter of Margrave Albrecht Achilles . In 1488 his father married him to Anna (1480 / 83–1541), a daughter of Duke John II of Sagan . Karl's older brothers Albrecht and Georg were also married to the daughters of Johann II.

After the death of their father, the three brothers Albrecht, Georg and Karl initially ruled together, each living on his own farm: Albrecht in Glatz, Georg in Oels , Karl in Münsterberg . Since Karl intended to move his residence to Frankenstein , he encouraged the development of the city. In order to encourage settlement in the city, he had new stone houses built and gave landed nobility jobs for free houses . The city fortifications were renewed and strengthened and a stone rectory was built in 1511. Around the same time, Karl began building a large castle on the site of the ruined medieval castle of Frankenstein . He moved his residence there in 1530. The system, which his successors continued to build on, was never finished. The high cost of building the palace probably contributed to the fact that the Duchy of Münsterberg was so heavily indebted in the middle of the 16th century that it had to be mortgaged for a time.

His brothers Georg and Albrecht died in 1502 and 1511 respectively. Since then, Karl ruled the inherited lands alone as Duke of Münsterberg and Oels. Although Karl and his brothers had already sold the Grafschaft Glatz to their future brother-in-law Ulrich von Hardegg as early as 1501 , they and their descendants continued to carry the title of Count von Glatz until the Münsterberg lineage of the Lords of Podiebrad in a male line in 1647.

After the death of his cousin Bartholomäus von Münsterberg in 1515, Karl followed him as an advisor to King Vladislav II. At the same time, he took over the education of Prince Ludwig II , who became King of Bohemia and Hungary after the death of Vladislav II in 1516. King Ludwig II appointed Karl I as governor of Upper Lusatia in 1519 . In 1523 Charles I was promoted to governor of the Kingdom of Bohemia and was one of those high nobles who administered the country in the absence of the king, who was mostly in Hungary. He also became governor of Silesia in 1524.

After the death of King Ludwig II in 1526, Karl von Münsterberg played a leading role in organizing the election of the king. He committed himself to the candidate Ferdinand I early on , which he rewarded after his coronation in 1527 with the confirmation of the main team in Bohemia and the award of the regional governor for Silesia. The exercise of these offices was associated with considerable financial outlay for Karl, so that he felt compelled to sell parts of his lands.

Although Karl Luther's writings initially read with benevolent interest, he held fast to the Catholic faith even during the Reformation . As early as 1516 he supported the canonization of the first Prague Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz , who was buried at his own request in 1364 in the parish church of Glatz. For this purpose, the Wroclaw canon Valentin Krautwald wrote a biography of the archbishop, to which a document from Duke Charles I was attached. In this document, Charles I recorded a miracle that the Franciscan Johann Filipec is said to have experienced in Glatz before 1498.

Charles I died on May 31, 1536 in his Frankenstein residence. His body was buried in St. Anne's Church, where his sons had an epitaph built for him and his widow, who died in 1541.

progeny

  1. Heinrich (* / † 1497)
  2. Anna (1499–1504)
  3. Catherine (1500–1507)
  4. Margareta (1501–1551), married to Johann / Jan Zajíc von Hasenburg
  5. Joachim (1503–1562), Bishop of Brandenburg
  6. Kunigunde Kunhuta (1504–1532), married to Christoph Černohorsky von Boskowitz
  7. Ursula Vorsila (1505–1539), married to Hieronymus von Bieberstein
  8. Heinrich II. (1507–1548), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
  9. Hedwig (1508–1531), married Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1525
  10. Johann (1509–1565), Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
  11. Barbara (1511–1539), abbess in Strehlen near Oels
  12. Georg II. (1512–1553), married to Elisabeth Kostka von Postupitz

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl I. von Münsterberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zdeňka Hledíková : Arnošt z Pardubic , Vyšehrad 2008, ISBN 978-80-7021-911-9
personal data
SURNAME Charles I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charles of Podebrady; Karl von Munsterberg-Oels; Karel z Minstrberka (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Münsterberg and Duke of Oels as well as Count of Glatz. Governor of Bohemia and Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1476 or May 4, 1476
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1536
Place of death Frankenstein