Kostka from Postupitz

Family coat of arms of the Kostka von Postupitz

The Kostka von Postupitz (former spelling Kostka von Postupicz ; Czech Kostka z Postupic , also Kostkové z Postupic ) is an extinct Bohemian nobility with a tribal relationship to the Osek von Riesenburg and the Hrabischitz . As a common coat of arms they carried an upright rake with seven prongs on top. Since the end of the 14th century the Kostka called themselves after the ancestral seat Postupice near Beneschau in Central Bohemia from Postupitz and are documented with Zdeněk Kostka von Postupitz, who is also known as Zdeněk von Křemenice , for the years 1379-1401. With him the uninterrupted tribal line begins.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms: in black an upright golden rake, with seven prongs on top. On the helmet with a black and gold twisted waistband and black and gold covers, a black, closed flight covered with a rake.

Baron's coat of arms: the rake in blue; on the crowned helmet with blue and gold covers a right-facing natural wolf's head with a knocked out red tongue.

history

Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) d. J. Kostka von Postupitz was a knight in 1414 . His son Wilhelm ( Vilém ) Freiherr Kostka von Postupitz, who had achieved political power and wealth, became a full member of the Bohemian gentry . Around 1440, his four sons established a family statute with Primogenitur succession and acceptance of the title: Ruler of the House of Kostka von Postupitz for the head of the house. The sex took the 24th place in the oldest Bohemian lordship order from 1501.

The noble family of Kostka von Postupitz was u. a. related to the Wartenberg , Dauba , Martinic , Pernstein and the Munsterberg branch of the Lords of Podiebrad .

With the death of the chief mint master and captain of the Chrudim district Bohuslaw Kostka von Postupitz ( Bohuše ), the male line died out in 1557.

Lineage

• Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) I. d. Ä. Kostka von Postupitz (also Zdeněk von Křemenice ; 1379–1401); ∞ Agnes von Pietichwost.
• Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) II. D. J. Kostka von Postupitz (1415-1448); ∞ Anna z Myšlína; acquired Zlenice ( Zlenitz ), Chrast and Myšlín in 1444 .
• Wilhelm ( Vilém ) Kostka von Postupitz (1406–1436); ∞ Elisabeth ( Eliška ) von Liblitz ; seized the village of Gabel an der Adler in 1420 ; initially supported the Hussites , who sent him to the Lithuanian King Witold in 1421 , to whom he was to offer the Bohemian crown. For these services he received the rule Mnichowitz in the same year. In 1423 he became sub-chamberlain of the Prague unit. In 1431 he took part in negotiations with the Bohemian King Sigismund . In 1433 he was a member of the Bohemian delegation at the Council of Basel , which worked there from January 4th to April 14th the Basel compacts , which were to be discussed at a parliament in June 1433. In 1434 he finally switched to the side of King Sigismund, who appointed him state chamberlain and enfeoffed him with the rule of Litomysl , the extent of which corresponded to the diocese of Litomysl , which fell in 1421 . In the same year Wilhelm was raised to the Bohemian baron class. Also in 1434 he took part in the Battle of Lipan . During the campaign against Königgrätz in 1436 he was killed near Wysoka . Descendants of Wilhelm von Postupitz and Elisabeth von Liblitz:

1. Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) III. Kostka von Postupitz († 1468) on Landsberg and Mährisch-Trübau , captain of the old Bohemian Chrudim district , then chief mint master of Bohemia and from 1467 Oberstburggraf von Prague; ∞ I. Elisabeth von Martinic ; ∞ II. Agnes von Kauffungen .
   1. Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) IV .; † 1477 without descendants.
2. Johann d. Ä. Kostka von Postupitz († 1486) on Leitomischl, Landsberg and Brandeis an der Adler , district chief of the old Bohemian Chrudim district.
   1. Bohuslaw ( Bohuš ) Kostka von Postupitz († January 29, 1505) on Leitomischl, Landsberg and Brandeis an der Adler, Oberstmünzmeister of Bohemia. He founded the Upper City of Leitomischl with the printing press "in Monte Oliveti"; ∞ Beatrix, widowed von Plauen , née Švihovský von Riesenburg , daughter of the Chamberlain Johann Freiherr Švihovský von Riesenburg and Anna, daughter of Ulrich Vavák von Neuhaus . Her older daughter Anna († 1548), married Baron Johann von Pernstein , pledge lord of the County of Glatz , governor and chief treasurer of Moravia in 1508 ; the younger daughter Margarethe († 1534), on Landskron, married Baron Adalbert von Pernstein , chief steward and governor of Bohemia, brother of her brother-in-law Johann von Pernstein.
3. Bohuslaw ( Bohuš ) Kostka von Postupitz († 1499); Captain of the Chrudim district; ∞ Alena from Chlum.
   1. Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) V. Kostka von Postupitz († 1510) on Podlažice near Chrast and Koloděje , district chief of the Chrudim district; ∞ Katharina von Wartenberg . There are five children from the marriage:
      1. Wilhelm Kostka von Postupitz († 1521); 1505 to 1518 on Koloděje and Chlumetz ; ∞ Agnes ( Anežka z Tismic ; † 1519), daughter of Nikolaus Wrbik von Tirmitz and his wife Agnes von Stráž , a branch of the witigon branch of the Lords of Neuhaus . Her daughter Elisabeth ( Eliška ; † 1553), her first marriage to Duke Georg II von Münsterberg and Oels , who came from the Münsterberg branch of the Lords of Podebrady; in her second marriage she married Karl von Waldstein .
      2. Margarethe Kostka von Postupitz († 1559); ∞ Heinrich Křinecký von Ronow ( Jindřich Křinecký z Ronova ).
      3. Zdeněk ( Zdenko ) VI. Kostka from Postupitz to Leitomischl; † unmarried in 1529.
      4. Johann Kostka von Postupitz on Leitomischl, Brandeis on the Adler and Nový hrad; † unmarried in 1531.
      5. Bohuslaw ( Bohuš ) Kostka von Postupitz († 1557), 8th and last ruler of the house Kostka von Postupitz, on Leitomischl, Brandeis an der Adler and Nový hrad ; ∞ I. Justina von Kunstadt († 1544); II. 1545/1546 Libussa Meziřicka from Lomnitz , widowed from Žerotín († 1559). Since Bohuslaw died in 1557 without heirs, his property fell to the Crown of Bohemia through reversion .
4. Albrecht Kostka von Postupitz († 1477), on Prerau , governor of Lower Lusatia , then chief mint master and chief treasurer of Bohemia; ∞ Ludmilla von Krawarn on Šternberk ; their son Georg / Jiří Hrabiše Kostka von Postupitz auf Mährisch-Trübau died in 1491 without descendants.

literature

• Jan Halada: Lexicon české šlechty . Erby, fakta, osobnosti, sídla a zajímavosti. Akropolis Verlag, Praha 1992. ISBN 80-901020-3-4 , pp. 78-79
• Roman von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families , Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 150 ff.
• Ders .: supplementary volume. Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families . Published by the Collegium Carolinum . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-54051-3 ; Depiction of the coat of arms of the Barons Kostka von Postupitz: p. 76

Web links

• genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg K. Hoensch : History of Bohemia. From the Slavic conquest to the present . Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41694-2 , p. 148
2. ↑ Wilhelm / Vilém on libri.cz