Ladislaus Prager

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Coat of arms of Ladislaus Prager: Original fresco from the beginning of the 15th century in the crypt of the Altenburg branch church

Ladislaus Prager , also Laßla, Lasla, Lasler and Praga, from Prague, (* before 1486; † November 28, 1514 in Windhaag near Perg ) was a landowner and politician who, as the emperor's financier, gained particular influence and reputation.

He came from a Bohemian noble family, in 1486 he was in Aachen for Knights defeated and in 1505 baron charged. After that he called himself Laßla von Prag, Freiherr zu Windhag . He was also Hereditary Marshal of Carinthia , Imperial Councilor and Truchsess , Captain of Wiener Neustadt , Caretaker of Enns and Chamberlain of Emperor Friedrich III.

Life

Ladislaus Prager comes from an originally Bohemian noble family. He was the son of Jakob, Herr von Prag (Jakob Prager) and Barbara von Graben , daughter of the Ortenburg captain Andreas von Graben , sister of the Görzian imperial administrator Virgil von Graben , who was related to the Auersperg and Breuner through her family .

Prager's family appeared in present-day Slovenia with the construction of the Pragerhof castles in Windisch-Feistritz and Pragwald west of Cilli , before it appeared in Upper Austria . Because of his wealth, Prager was in the favor of the emperor as a financier. He was considered an upstart by the Upper Austrian nobility. His coat of arms shows a golden monkey on a chain.

Ladislaus Prager sold the Obertruchsen, Wolfseck and Schoneck estates in Carinthia before moving to Upper Austria.

He was initially with the heiress of the Lords of Tannpeck , Regina († 1498 or 1499, buried in the parish church of Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen ) and after her death from 1505 with Anna Fux von Fuxberg († around 1534), daughter of Daxen Fux von Fuxberg, imperial saltworker in Hall in Tirol, married.

With Anna he had seven children, two of whom died as children. Grown up:

  • Anna (* 1506)
  • Hans (1507–1572), Imperial Councilor and District Administrator ob der Enns, school superintendent of the evangelical landscape school in Enns , nobleman of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
  • Laßla (1508–1558), one of twelve Truchessen of Emperor Ferdinand I.
  • Christoph (1510–1535; during the conquest of Tunis )
  • Andreas (1514–1569), nobleman with Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg

After marrying his first wife Regina von Tannpeck, he was taken over by Emperor Friedrich III. In 1485, he was enfeoffed with Windhaag Castle and shortly afterwards was able to acquire the property of his new relatives, which from 1492 also included Aich Castle and Lordship .

On December 19, 1491, Windhaag was raised to power in Upper Austria and the truce was expanded into an extensive regional court . This district court included the communities of Windhaag , Münzbach and Altenburg as well as parts of Rechberg . The then Roman-German King and Archduke of Austria and later German Emperor Maximilian I confirmed the district court on March 2, 1494. Further confirmations followed in 1535, 1565 and 1568.

In 1512 Prager had a family crypt built in the Altenburg parish church (now a branch church of Windhaag) under the Anna chapel and decorated with frescoes that are still preserved today. When the crypt was opened in 1907, twelve coffins from family members of the Prague family were found there. The family was owned by the Windhaag rule until 1597.

Possessions

Ladislaus Prager acted as a financier for the emperor, received various castles and manors as pledges, for example Freistadt (in the period from 1500 to 1509) and Klingenberg including the Münzbach market (in the period from 1500 to 1514) and was ultimately enfeoffed with these.

As early as 1490 he had come into the possession of the Mauthausen manor and had Pragstein Castle built there on a rocky island in the Danube in 1491 . He is said to have treated the Mauthausen citizens very harshly. Today the castle stands on the left bank of the Danube because the Danube was relocated in this area.

In 1494 he built a Carmelite monastery for three Carmelites in the Heinrichskirche in Mauthausen , which however only stayed there until 1507.

The Windhager Urbar of 1508 shows the property acquired by inheritance (Tannpecks) and purchase, divided into eight offices: Windhaag , Zell , Weißenbach , Freistadt , Haid bei Wels, Sankt Florian , Linz , Kirchdorf , Klingenberg .

From the Windhager Urbar of 1533 it can be seen that from 1514 until their death around 1534, his widow Anna von Prag as guardian of the sons who were still underage at the time of Laßla's death acquired further possessions, including the Saxenegg and Pruckmüllner offices, later also the Hirschau office and the Münzbach parish church with church fiefs, bailiwick, rectory and subjects.

In 1524, Baroness Anna of Prague had a new chapel built and lavishly furnished near Windhag Castle.

The Prager family holdings were arguably most extensive in the 1530s. In 1539 the property was divided among the three sons still alive at that time. Hans got the house in Enns and its accessories, Laßla got the seat in Otsdorf and the pawnbroker Weitra, Andreas remained the rule Windhaag, where he relinquished several smaller offices to Laßla. Hans later changed the offices of Lindenöd and Erlach from Laßla.

The Prague residents owned the bailiwick and fiefdom of the following parishes:

  • Altenburg Parish (Saint Bartholomew) (1485 to 1597)
  • Parish Münzbach (Saint Laurence) (1530 to 1597)
  • Parish Pergkirchen (Saint Martin) (1540 to 1597)
  • Parish Rechberg (Saint Nicholas) as a branch parish of Pierbach

In addition to the goods belonging to the manors, the following buildings in particular belonged temporarily to the Prager family as (pawned) property. The information in brackets relates to the period of influence:

Upper Austria :

Pragstein Castle in Mauthausen
Prague coat of arms on Pragstein Castle
Pragtal Castle near Windhaag

Lower Austria :

Carinthia :

Descendants of Ladislaus Prager (Laßla von Prag)

The progeny of Ladislaus Prager has been represented in the literature as follows:

  1. Ladislaus Prager († 1515), ∞ first with Anna Regina Tanpecken († 1498 or 1499), then 1505 ∞ with Anna Fux von Fuxberg († around 1535)
  1. Andreas (* 1514, † 1569), 1540 ∞ Katharina Magdalena von Lamberg (* around 1520), had Pragtal Castle built in 1564 and the hospital in Altenburg in 1567
  1. Albrecht († 1592)
  2. Anna
  3. Christoph (* 1542; † between 1606 and 1617), 1571 ∞ Katharina von Prösing zu Enns, then 1586 with Judith von Friedersheim
  1. Andreas († 1581)
  2. Christoph (* 1573), ∞ with Christina von Tschernembl
  1. Hans
  2. Ladislaus († 1605), ∞ with Johanna Viktoria von Kren (n) berg
  2. Engelburg
  3. Elisabeth Maria
  4. Ladislaus († 1613), ∞ with Victoria von Kernberg
  1. Benigna Rosina
  2. Maria Francisca
  3. Sigmund († 1627)
  2. Hans
  2. Friedrich († 1600), 1571 ∞ first with Justinia von Harrach († 1572), then with Eleonora Pöckling , then 1574 ∞ with Elisabeth Rogendorf, had already taken on debts from his father and had to sell the entire property in 1597
  1. Margaretha Barbara (* 1579)
  2. Engelburg
  3. Catherine
  4. Ursula
  2. Anna (* 1506; † 1522)
  3. Christoph (* 1510; † 1535 in Tunis)
  4. Hans (* 1507; † 1567), 1540 ∞ with Magdalena von Scherffenberg († 1598), was school superindendent of the evangelical landscape school in Enns
  1. Christoph († in youth)
  2. Hans († 1577, unmarried)
  3. Ladislaus († in youth)
  2. Ladislaus (* 1508; † 1558), ∞ with Engelburg von Lamberg

A medal on which Ladislaus Prager (* 1508; † 1558) is depicted is described as follows: His bust with a richly embroidered, fur-trimmed scabbard, a barrette, and short-cut hair, from the left side. In the field: FH, the symbol of the medalist Friedrich Hagenauer in Augsburg, where Ladislaus wanted to be medalized during his stay there in 1530 when he was twenty-two. With no downside. Size: 2 inches 4 lines, weight: 2 1/2 Loth in silver, chiseled original cast, also in bronze a splendid example in the kuk Münzkabinett. The medal is also shown in the appendix of the cited book.

At the latest the sons of Ladislaus Prager were supporters of Luther's teaching, accordingly the three Windhag parishes of Altenburg, Münzbach and Pergkirchen and most of the subjects living there were considered Protestant in the period from around 1558 to 1624 and also had Protestant pastors.

literature

  • Georg Grüll : History of the rule and the Windhag Castle near Perg. In: Upper Austrian Museum Association Society for Regional Studies (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association 1937. Linz 1937, PDF on ZOBODAT .
  • Anton Eberle: Gravestones of the St. Nicholas parish church in Hall. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Volume 3_20, 1876, pp. 1–42, PDF on ZOBODAT (section “7. Pantaleon Prager, a. 1504” deals with the Prague coat of arms on the tombstone of Pantaleon Prager, who died as a child on September 3, 1504 and was buried in Hall in Tyrol).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Hlawinka: Slavic language tracks in Upper Austria. Thesis . University of Vienna, Vienna 2009, p. 127 ( PDF on othes.univie.ac.at; 184 pages).
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Bergmann: Medals for famous and distinguished men of the Austrian imperial state from the XVI. until the XIX. Centuries. Volume 1, Munich 1844, pp. 168 ff., Books.google.at (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Prague, Ladislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hereditary Marshal of Carinthia, Captain of Wiener Neustadt, Truchsess and Chamberlain of Emperor Friedrich III.
DATE OF BIRTH before 1486
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1514
Place of death Windhaag near Perg