Karl Ludwig zu Sulz

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Karl Ludwig I. von Sulz ("The Long Swabian") (born July 9, 1560 in Tiengen ; † September 29, 1616 in Turin ) was an Imperial Feldzeugmeister , Colonel of the City of Vienna , Imperial Court Judge of Rottweil and President of the Court War Council .

Life

Karl Ludwig I. Count von Sulz, Landgrave of Klettgau , Lord of Vaduz and Blumenegg , came from the old south German noble family of the Counts of Sulz . The male family died out in 1687 .

In 1596, Karl Ludwig I enlisted a regiment for Archduke Albrecht in the Netherlands , with which he fought against France . According to a decree of April 16, 1598, Emperor Rudolf II appoints him as a colonel over a regiment of German mercenaries to be set up by him to be deployed in Hungary against the Turks. In 1599 Emperor Rudolf appointed him Colonel Feldzeugmeister for the campaign in Hungary. In 1600 (according to other sources 1604) he was made head of the Court War Council; an office he held until 1610. Under his direction the excessively large number of regiments was reduced and brought to a uniform strength. The first General Profossen Instruction also appeared .

He seldom saw his home, Tiengen Castle . A bailiff served as the administrator, in his day it was Johann Jakob von Beck, whom he promoted .

In 1601, Karl Ludwig I also served Archduke Matthias as Feldzeugmeister. With the capture of Stuhlweissenburg on September 20, 1601 he commanded the artillery . In 1603 he fought together with Colonel Kolonitsch and 5000 men in Stuhlweissenburg against Pascha Murad, whom they repulsed at Sechshard . In 1604 he was given the post of Colonel of the City Guard in Vienna. On April 7, 1610, he was appointed by Emperor Rudolf to be Supreme Lieutenant General in the Jülich'schen Lands and was subordinate to the authorized commissioner Archduke Leopold , Bishop of Strasbourg and Passau . He commanded "the whole bright crowd of our war people on horseback". His monthly salary was 2000 guilders . It is the last document relating to Sulz's activities in the imperial service.

He later entered service in Spain and died on September 29, 1616 as General of the King of Spain of a raging fever.

Landgrave in Klettgau

Title page of the police and state regulations of the Landgraviate of Klettgau from 1603

After his brother Rudolf could not settle a rebellion of his subjects against " Turkish tax and realm levy" since 1595 , he had to cede the office of Landgrave in Klettgau to Karl Ludwig in 1602:

“On August 8, 1602, the count's brothers Rudolf and Karl Ludwig reached a settlement because of the enormous debts of the former and the cession of the regency, and in the farewell concluded on January 27, 1603 in the post office in Oberlauchringen , the subjects secured payment of the interest for 20,000 fl. From Martini 1603 as a debut and beginning of the government, but rejected new editions, such as the smoke guilder, resolutely. On April 24th they paid homage to Count Karl Ludwig as their new sovereign. "

In his first year in office, Karl Ludwig had comprehensive police and state regulations drawn up, including representatives of the subjects. The Sulzian officials tried, however, to curb their influence, which led to further protests by the imperial commissioners and to a revision of the police and state regulations in 1605. It was not until 1610 that the subjects ended their tax rebellion.

Start of the sell-off

Karl Ludwig was able to stabilize the political situation in Klettgau again, but the financial problems were not fundamentally resolved. With the letter of purchase dated February 1, 1610, he sold his rule of Mettingen with Untermettingen Castle to his “dear brother-in-law and brother” Maximilian von Pappenheim , Count of the Landgraviate of Stühlingen . To further relieve the burden, he sold Vaduz and Schellenberg to Count Kaspar von Hohenems in 1613 . The rule of Blumenegg was sold to the Weingarten monastery .

Origins, marriages and descendants

Karl Ludwig was a son of Alwig II von Sulz and Barbara von Helfenstein - Wiesensteig . He came from the old Swabian noble family of the Counts of Sulz . His older brother, Rudolf IV von Sulz , was called "the debt maker".

Karl Ludwig was married twice. First marriage to Dorothea Katharina von Sayn (1562–1609). On February 1, 1616 he married Maria von Oettingen-Wallerstein (* January 10, 1582 - † March 13, 1647)

Children from 1st marriage:

  • Alwig von Sulz (1586–1632) ⚭ 1. Katharina Ludmilla von Lobkowicz , ⚭ 2. Veronika von Spaur
  • Adolf von Sulz (born November 4, 1587)
  • Maria Barbara von Sulz (born December 13, 1588) ⚭ Count Johann Ludwig von Leiningen- Dagsburg- Falkenburg
  • Elisabeth von Sulz (born November 25, 1589) ⚭ Ulrich Freiherr von Firmian
  • Juliana von Sulz (born November 12, 1590) ⚭ Wilhelm Heinrich von Waldburg
  • Amalia Katharina von Sulz (born November 24, 1591)
  • Ester von Sulz (* 1592) ⚭ Count Ferdinand Balthasar von Meggau
  • Anna Amalia von Sulz (* 1593; † April 26, 1658) ⚭ Count Caspar Marcus von Hohenems
  • Karl Ludwig Ernst (* 1595; † 1648)
  • Agnes von Sulz

Children from 2nd marriage:

literature

  • Carl von Duncker:  Sulz, Karl Ludwig Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 144.
  • The Hofkriegsraths-Presidents and War Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army Publishing house of the military-scientific association, Vienna 1874.
  • Monika Baumann: "Opposition vnd Aufruor" in Klettgau , In: Mark Hengerer, Elmar L. Kuhn : Adel im Wandel, Volume 1, Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2066, pp. 183-192

Web links

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ The year of birth and death for Baumann and geneall.net are the same
  2. ^ Brigitte Matt-Willmatt / Karl-Friedrich Hoggenmüller: Lauchringen. Chronicle of a community , Ed .: Lauchringen community, 1986, p. 39.
  3. ↑ s. Baumann p. 187
  4. ↑ s. Baumann p. 188
  5. ↑ see entry on genealogy.euweb.cz; Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Karl Ludwig II. Also had two sons. The elder Leopold Karl fell in 1645 and the last von Sulz , Johann Ludwig II. , Died in Jestetten in 1687 .
predecessor Office successor
Melchior von Redern President of the Court War Council
1600–1610 		Hans Freiherr von Mollard
Rudolf von Sulz Landgrave in Klettgau
1602–1616 		Alwig von Sulz
personal data
SURNAME Karl Ludwig zu Sulz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Ludwig I .; Lange Schwabe, The (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landgrave of Klettgau, Imperial Feldzeugmeister and military leader in the Turkish Wars
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiengen
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1616
Place of death Turin