Karl von Burgau

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Karl Margrave von Burgau, copper engraving by Domenico Custos , after 1606 

Karl, Margrave of Burgau (born  November 22, 1560 at Pürglitz Castle in Bohemia, †  October 30, 1618 in Überlingen ), was the son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria from his marriage to Philippine Welser . He was the brother of Cardinal Andreas of Austria and is also named Karl of Austria .

Life

Like his older brother Andreas, he was laid down as an alleged foundling on the threshold of a Bohemian castle and there was picked up by Philippine Welser, his birth mother, and thus adopted as a child. Philippine lived at Castle Křivoklát (Pürglitz Castle) with her husband, who was secretly married in an morganatic marriage, the former Bohemian governor Archduke Ferdinand II. Only later was the marriage announced and the children were given the name of Austria . The House of Habsburg declared them eligible for succession only in the event that all other Habsburgs died out. Together with his brother, he grew up first in Bohemia, later at Ambras Castle in Tyrol, where his father resided as the sovereign.

Karl von Burgau embarked on a career as a soldier and unsuccessfully applied for the crown of Poland after the death of Stephan Báthory (1586). In 1588, Karl led a Spanish regiment under Alexander Farnese in the war against the Netherlands and was then used in the war against the Turks . Here he was able to record some military successes in 1595 and 1596 - at the expense of his soldiers, who suffered from hunger, received no pay and some deserted - and was appointed field marshal .

In 1595, after the death of his father, he - as a descendant not fully entitled to inheritance from an unequal marriage - was compensated for in addition to ample financial resources with a few possessions. The most important was the Margraviate of Burgau , others the Landgraviate of Nellenburg and the County of Hohenberg . The rule of Ambras with the collections that his father had bequeathed to him, Karl von Burgau sold to the ore house of Austria.

Contemporaries report of a splendid court holding of Charles at Günzburg Castle , his residence. The margrave was less popular with his subjects, whom he forbade the consumption of wheat beer , and with the noble inmates of the margraviate of Burgau (including the bishop of Augsburg , the counts of Fugger and the imperial cities of Ulm and Augsburg ), whom he angered with tariff increases and disputes over sovereign rights . In 1615/16 a Capuchin monastery was founded in Günzburg at his instigation . His zealous religiosity led to the expulsion of the Jews from his royal seat in 1617 (they had to leave Günzburg within a year). After his death in 1619, his body was transferred to the newly built church of the Capuchin monastery he had founded in Günzburg, where his wife was also buried in 1627 . Both remains were transferred to the Sankt-Martins-Kirche in Günzburg before the monastery was secularized in 1806.

progeny

Karl had been married to Sibylle (* August 26, 1557; † 1628), daughter of Wilhelm, the Duke of Jülich , since 1601 , but this marriage had remained childless - after his death all possessions fell back to the main Habsburg line .

Out of marital relationships there were two "natural" sons and one "natural" daughter:

  1. with Chiara Elisa Isabella (Ferari) di Ferrero (* 1567)
    1. Anna Elisabeth (* 1588, † 1621), married in 1607 Pietro Francesco di Ferrero, Marchese della Marmora († 1611)
    2. Karl, Freiherr von Hohenberg (* 1584, † 1628), councilor and caretaker of the Erbach rule; married Anna Katharina von Waltenhofen on 1st 1615; married Maria Jakobine von Stotzingen (* 1605, † 1635) on 2. 1621 ; posthumous in -laws of Sergeant -General Georg von Schütz zu Purschütz (1600–1681)
    3. Ferdinand, Freiherr von Hohenberg (* approx. 1586, † 1660/64), councilor and captain of the County of Hohenberg ; married Barbara von Breiningen in 1617

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmgard Christa Becker: Front Austria - only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest . Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-88294-276-2 , p. 269.
  2. ↑ a b Alexandra Kohlberger: Günzburg - Capuchin Crypt for a Habsburg ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History , as seen on 25 August 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hdbg.de
  3. ^ A b c Benedikt, Heinrich, "Burgau, Karl" In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), p. 44 [ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn129216038.html online version]
  4. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Karl (Margrave of Burgau) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, p. 364 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Johann Georg Keyßler , Recent Journeys through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary , Volume 1, Hanover 1751, p. 22 f.
  6. ^ Habsburg 4 - Genealogy index, descendants of Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol.
  7. ↑ rootsweb: Marquise Chiara Elisa Isabella Ferrero of Ferrero-di-Romagnano , Dietmar Schiersner, Politik, Konfession und Kommunikation , 2005, 371.
  8. ^ A b Max Radlkofer, Margrave Karl von Burgau, son of Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol and the Philippine Welser , in: Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg vol. 51 (1907) pp. 1–50, here p. 48 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Burgau, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgau, Karl Margrave of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of Burgau
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Bürglitz Castle, Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1618
Place of death Überlingen , buried: Günzburg