Konrad IV. (Tübingen-Lichteneck)

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The counts Georg II. And Conrad IV. Von Tübingen-Lichteneck

Konrad IV. († 1569), Count of Tübingen , Herr zu Lichteneck , called himself from 1536 Herr zu Lichteneck und Limburg.

family

His first marriage was to Johanna Countess von Birsch and his second marriage to Catharina Truchseß von Waldburg . He had the following children:

Live and act

Guardianship and initial demands on the House of Württemberg

Konrad IV. And his brother Georg II. Were at the death of their father, Konrads III. (* 1482; † 1510), still very young and therefore came under the tutelage of Rudolf and Sebastian von Blumeneck . The guardians resumed the existing demands of the Tübingen counts against the House of Württemberg , and in 1511 asked Duke Ulrich to return their paternal inheritance - Böblingen , Dagersheim and Darmsheim - to their ward . In their opinion, Tübingen and Herrenberg had only been given to the House of Württemberg as pledge and these cities should be redeemed by the two brothers.

Because of the unrest at the time, the demand was not heeded. Therefore, the guardians repeated this in 1516, and offered to bring the matter to the court court or the Württemberg landscape committee in order to reach an amicable or legal agreement. After repeated, unsuccessful warnings, their claims in Stuttgart were rejected as completely unfounded. The Austrian governorship of the country later spoke out in favor of the two brothers.

Attempt to redeem the pledge

The two brothers' legal advisor, Dr. Baldung, wrote - in marked contradiction with the documented course of the acquisition of Tübingen, Böblingen and Herrenberg by the Counts of Württemberg - the Lords of Württemberg had expelled the ancestors of the Counts of Tübingen from the Palatinate and these afterwards individual spots in the state as fiefs from Württemberg instructed. The Counts of Tübingen had approached the rule of Württemberg several times for the fiefdoms of Böblingen, Dagersheim and Darmsheim, and received an answer, but no legal reason could be found why these fiefs were withheld from the counts, or the legal reason for the rule Württemberg had drawn them to himself. The Counts of Tübingen, Baldung continues, had notes and letters that their ancestors had only pledged the front castle and the upper part of the town of Herrenberg, Rorow Castle and the village of Kayh to the Württemberg rule. However, since the redemption of this pledge and the legal requisition of the fiefs against such a powerful opponent would have caused excessive costs, the Counts of Tübingen had repeated their claim from time to time for many years, for what reasons the statute of limitations cited by Württemberg had been interrupted . In order to receive the Dr. In order to refute the accusations made by Naldung and thus avert further demands, the Württemberg government had a pamphlet published under the title: "The rule of Württemberg umbrella and justice against the Count of Tübingen requirement". The complaints of the Counts of Tübingen rested on this for some time.

Service in Baden

Count Konrad entered the service of Margraves Philipp and Ernst von Baden and was with them at the Diet of Speyer in 1526. Since Konrad had suffered damage in the peasant uprising, he was included in the agreement reached in 1527 between the Austrian estates in Breisgau and Margrave Ernst zu Baden because of the damage suffered by the peasants at Neuburg am Rhein. For the Turkish aid to be granted to the emperor in 1527, he and his brother provided two horsemen and two foot servants, after his guardians had provided three foot servants for the same purpose in 1510.

Interrogation by Duke Ulrich

Konrad made yet another attempt to regain the seized areas by turning to Duke Ulrich in 1536 and asking him for an interrogation. He found himself with his legal advisor, Dr. Baldung, in Stuttgart. Konrad asked, because he could not see any reason from the documents available to him as to how and why the Böblinger care had come to Württemberg from the Counts of Tübingen, that he should be instructed and shown whether there was evidence. He is ready, if such are found, to resign from his demand. They gave Konrad the requested information and tried to convince him that his family had no legal reason to demand the aforementioned possessions from the rule of Württemberg. Thereupon Konrad dropped his claims on Tübingen and Herrenberg, and only insisted on being reinstated in the care of Böblingen by arguing that Count Palatine Götz III. could not sell this because his wife had the same rights for herself and her children, and her father and brother did not consent to the purchase.

In response to this declaration, the Wuerttemberg councilors made it clear that they only had the order to listen to him, that is, the matter had to remain unfinished for the time being, but Konrad could not be turned away and, particularly in relation to his evidence, remarked that Götz III . had such a disorder in his administration that if his wife Clara had not taken the hereditary bailiff's letter about Böblingen to Lichteneck, it would no longer be in his hands either. The councils reported the trial to Duke Ulrich.

Comparison and return of the village of Nordweil near Alpirsbach

Although Ulrich was convinced of the legality of the ownership of the villages in question, he did not want to enter into any further discussion of this trade out of pity for the distressed situation of the Count and out of consideration for the once so high-ranking family. He offered Konrad a comparison and the village of Nordweil im Breisgau , which belonged to the Alpirsbach monastery , for a man and service loan as well as 200 guilders annual service fee . Conrad gratefully accepted this, and on April 30, 1537 a formal contract was concluded about it. According to this contract, Duke Ulrich granted him the village of Nordweil not out of justice, but out of grace, because he was devoted to Konrad as a born count and his tribe and name, and because he considered that Konrad would not be involved in the forcible expulsion of the Herzogs had been involved. Konrad and his male heirs were to take over this with all affiliations, all uses, income and rights, as the prelate of the Alpirsbach monastery belonging to the Principality of Württemberg had held until then.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julius Kindler von Knobloch and Baden Historical Commission (ed.): Upper Baden gender book (Volume 1): A - Ha, Heidelberg, 1898, page: 255.
  2. ^ A b Johann Gottfried Biedermann: Genealogy of the high royal houses in the Franconian Crayse: which were compiled and compiled in the current order from the most tried and tested documents, marriage letters, complete grave inscriptions and precise information obtained from high houses described inside. 1 . Dietzel, 1746, p. 104. Pages 104, 118 and Tabula CXIV
  3. ^ A b c d Ludwig Schmid: History of the Count Palatinate of Tübingen Tübingen, 1853. Page 573ff.
personal data
SURNAME Conrad IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Tübingen, Mr. zu Lichteneck. From 1536 Mr. zu Lichteneck and Limburg
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1569