Kunz of Lüchau

Kunz von Lüchau († March 28, 1516 ) was Brandenburg-Kulmbacher bailiff in Selb and Rehau and Saxon bailiff in Schleiz .

Kunz, also Konrad , Konz or Contz , came from the Franconian noble family of Lüchau . The fragmentary family tree of Dorbenck does not allow any statements about the parents of Kunz von Lüchau. He and his descendants are not listed in Johann Gottfried Biedermann's genealogy for the knightly canton of Gebürg . He was married to Agnes, a born von Zedtwitz . The marriage resulted in five daughters, so that the line of the Konradsreuth family died out with him in the male line. The daughters known by name were Katharine, Praxedes, Sophie and Else, the latter being taken up in the monastery Hof . Family relationships with those of Obernitz to Tausa , Hendel, von Wildenstein to Marlesreuth and Sack to Mühltroff result from marriages .

The first documented information about Kunz comes from the period after 1467 in connection with a feud between Siegmund Delnitzer and the city of Eger . Delnitzer used horses and servants of Kunz von Lüchau in his raids on Eger and imprisoned citizens of Eger in Konradsreuth. Kunz von Lüchau denied his direct involvement and Jobst von Schirnding and Hans von Sparneck zu Weißdorf were used to arbitrate . Kunz also appears in the stories of Wilwolt von Schaumberg .

A feud has been passed down since 1478, which began with Kunz von Lüchau and Sichart with son Friedrich von Feilitzsch . Kunz owed von Feilitzsch 70  florins. The claim was dealt with in court at Hof Palace and captains Heinrich von Künsberg and Heinrich von Aufseß were involved in the arbitration, but it did not lead to any result. The complaint of Sichart von Feilitzsch to the dukes Albrecht and Ernst reached Albrecht Achilles . The involvement of the territorial rulers increased the conflict, as did the aristocracy taking sides on both sides and the mixing of the dispute with another demand of von Feilitzsch against Hans von Sparneck . One of the highlights of the feud was the kidnapping of several Brandenburg councilors who were on a diplomatic mission en route to the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus . In 1482 an arbitration tribunal ended the escalating dispute. Kunz von Lüchau was forced to sell the place and the Konradsreuth Castle . He then lived in Uprode Castle .

As a bailiff of Selb he can be grasped from 1479. In 1483 he was replaced by Parakeet von Zedtwitz . Before taking office as bailiff from Rehau from 1507 to 1516, he was bailiff in Schleiz for five years.

literature

• The certificate of Margrave Albrecht on the parakeet von Zedtwitz allowed the replacement of the office of Selb, which Konrad von Lüchau had previously held as a pledge. Exhibited in Ansbach, on the Monday after Sunday Quasimodogeniti 1483 (copy, authenticated by Spieß in 1788), Bamberg State Archives, Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Plassenburg Secret House Archives No. 342, old signature: C 17 IV No. 195.
• Alban von Dobenck : History of the extinct lineage of Lüchau . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth 1911. pp. 58ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender = register of the realm - Frey - immediate knighthood of the country to Francken praiseworthy place = Gebürg… . Bamberg 1747. Plate CLXVII. ff.