Kaspar von Frundsberg

Kaspar von Frundsberg (* July 5, 1501 , † August 31, 1536 ) was Lord of Mindelheim and Landsknechtsführer .

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Georg and Kaspar von Frundsberg

He was the son of Georg von Frundsberg and his wife Katharina von Schrofenstein at Mindelheim Castle . He was probably the firstborn child. Only the date of death (January 3, 1554) of his sister Anna von Frundsberg is known for certain. The data on his brother Melchior are not secured.

The historian Adam Reissner points out in his Historia Mr. Georgen and Mr. Caspar v. Frundsberg points out that Kaspar took part in Charles V's Italian campaign against Pope Clement VII and was present at the sack of Rome on May 6, 1527. He also played an important role in the defense of Pavia .

Reissner describes Kaspar and his father Georg as "the highest captains of the German emperors", with which he wanted to work out both their central position and their unrestricted loyalty to the empire and their anti-papal stance.

After returning to his homeland in mid-1528, Kaspar used the benefice compensation left to him from the Italian campaign to at least partially rehabilitate the highly indebted estates of the Lords of Mindelheim. On May 2, 1529 he married Margarete von Firmian. This marriage had a daughter named Katharina (born 1530).

Frundsberg remained loyal to the emperor in the years that followed. In 1532 he advised him on the formation of an army against the Ottomans . When war broke out again with the French King Franz I in 1536 , Frundsberg was again to lead troops to Italy. During the preparations for war, however, he fell seriously ill. He died on August 31, 1536, according to the only reliable report, however, not of fever, but of the consequences of a stroke. Despite all his efforts, he had not yet succeeded in stepping out of the shadow of his influential father Georg. It is not certain whether his heir - also Georg by first name - was actually his biological son with Margarete von Firmian. In any case, the bloodline of the Lords of Frundsberg was finally extinguished with Georg's death in 1586. At that time, the gender of the von Frundsberg family no longer even played a decisive role in regional politics.

literature

• Casparus Freundsbergius . In: Jakob Schrenck von Notzing : Augustissimorum imperatorum, serenissimorum regum atque archiducum, illustrissimorum principum, nec non comitum, baronum, nobilium, aliorumque clarissimorum virorum, qui aut ipsi cum imperio bellorum duces fuerunt… verissimae succinctae description, etes… . Johannes Agricola (Baur), Innsbruck 1601, sheet 94 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• Carl von Landmann:  Frundsberg, Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 154-159. (Description in his father's article)