Konrad von Summerau

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Konrad von Summerau (also: Konrad I. von Summerau , Konrad von Sumerau , Konrad von Sommerau , Chunradus de Sumerowe ; † 1297/98) was castle captain of Enns and is considered the first and second governor of Upper Austria . In 1264 he appears in a document as a district judge on the Enns.

Life

Konrad I. von Summerau came from the family of the Lords of Zakking . They settled in Sommerau Castle , about three kilometers east of Wallsee , after the Sunilburgers ( Sindelburg ) at Wallsee Castle had died out (Sommerau was still owned by the Lords of Sleunz in the meantime ), and they called themselves “Sommerauer”, contemporary at that time also "Sumerauer". Konrad was the son of Heinrich III. von Zakking (Heinrich I. von Summerau).

In the service of Ottokar Přemysl

Konrad von Summerau was the castle captain of the Ennsburg during the Austrian Interregnum , when the Habsburgs, the Bohemian Přemyslids and the Hungarian Arpads fought for the Babenberg inheritance . In 1264 Konrad was mentioned as a district judge of the province of Austria ob der Enns ( Latin iudex Austriae superioris ) . In contrast to Styria, where a complete series of capitanei is assured, Konrad is only attested as the chief judge in 1264. His predecessor Wok von Rosenberg only held this position from 1256 to 1260 at the latest, and Captain Burkhard von Klingenberg did not appear as such until December 1274.

In the service of the Habsburgs

When the German King Rudolf I of Habsburg first marched against the Bohemian King Ottokar II Přemysl in 1276 , the Duchy of Austria belonged to the latter's kingdom. Rudolf moved down the Danube towards Vienna and instructed Ulrich (II) von Kapellen to advertise his cause in Enns. Konrad von Sumerau, previously Ottokar's follower, then surrendered the city of Enns on October 10, 1276 without a fight. Governor Burkhard von Klingenberg therefore had to evacuate the Obderennsian areas, such as today's Upper Austria . Rudolf thanked the city by confirming all the privileges of the city, granting exemption from customs duties and tolls and appointing Konrad von Summerau as captain ob der Enns ( Capitanus Anasi ).

Konrad then went to the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen (August 26, 1278) with King Rudolf , where he and Ulrich von Kapellen led 300 riders, 60 of them heavy, into the field. Lying somewhat unknightly in ambush, this reserve intervened at the right moment and helped decide the battle.

Conflicts with the Habsburgs

Six years later, Konrad von Summerau fell out of favor with the Habsburgs. He was accused of impropriety against merchants, boatmen and pilgrims on the Danube. Duke Albrecht I demanded the surrender of the castles Werfenstein and Freyenstein on this important traffic artery, which Konrad, based on older rights, refused. Thereupon the duke besieged the two fortresses in the summer of 1284 and forced Konrad to hand them over. Werfenstein and Freinstein no longer came into the possession of the Sumerauer.

Another point of conflict was the staff of advisors that Albrecht had brought with him to Austria and Styria in 1283 after being enfeoffed by his father Rudolf. It consisted largely of followers from the old ancestral lands of the Habsburgs in the Swabian region, above all the Lords of Walsee . The resident ministerials saw this as an affront and feared for the influence they had gained in the war against Ottokar. In the 1290s, for example, there were some uprisings among the local nobles, in which Konrad von Sommerau played a leading role alongside the Kuenringers . When Albrecht put down the rebellion in 1296, he relieved Konrad of all his fiefdoms and expelled him from the country. After a short refuge with King Adolf von Nassau , he allegedly died in misery outside the country. Heinrich I von Walsee became the castle captain of Enns as well as lord of Sommerau and Sindelburg .

See also

literature

  • Viktor von Handel-Mazzetti : The Zakking Sumerauer. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. Year 11, 1912, pp. 41–115 (section “Konrad I. von Sumerau.” Pp. 68–94), PDF on ZOBODAT

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Garsten documents (1082-1778) 1264 VII 01. Court letter of Chunrats von Sumerau, Richters ob der Enns, with which he awards the Spek estate to the Garsten monastery in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  2. ^ Franz Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen: The castle and its history. The historical development. In: schloss-wallsee.at. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 65.
  4. ^ Alois Zauner : Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria . In: Society for regional studies - Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 128a. Linz 1983, p. 56, entire article pp. 45–83 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  5. ↑ a b Alois Zauner: Ottokar II. Premysl and Upper Austria. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. 1979, p. 72, PDF on ZOBODAT
  6. ↑ a b Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 71.
  7. ↑ a b The duchies of Austria, Styria and Carinthia 1270-1280. In: primanocte.at. Medieval Association Prima Nocte, archived from the original on July 16, 2012 ; accessed on October 21, 2011 (entries for the individual dates).
  8. ↑ a b Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 77.
  9. ↑ Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 80.
  10. ↑ Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 89.
  11. ↑ Handel-Mazzetti 1912, p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Konrad von Summerau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konrad von Sumerau; Konrad von Sommerau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burghauptmann zu Enns, district judge above the Enns, is considered to be the first governor of Upper Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th century or 14th century