List of bailiffs in Lower Lusatia
The bailiffs of Niederlausitz were the leading representatives of the Bohemian kings and Saxon electors in Niederlausitz from the 14th to the 17th century.
history
The first bailiff was mentioned in Lower Lusatia in 1359 under Saxon pledges. Significant competencies for this office are initially not recognizable from the few reports received, even for the time after the Bohemian takeover in 1364.
Due to the great distance to the kings in Prague, the powers of the governors developed increasingly. In the 15th century they acted largely independently with sovereign powers, they issued deeds on fiefs and other things, waged wars and tried to administer Niederlausitz in agreement with the estates.
After Niederlausitz passed to the Electorate of Saxony in 1635, its influence decreased again. At the end of the 17th century, the office was only a mere title of the Saxon electoral prince (heir to the throne).
Governors of Lower Lusatia
- 1359 Kunz of Würzburg
- 1364 Johann von Herzenstein
- 1369 Epping von Grabeck
- 1371 Henry VI. the elder Reuss zu Plauen
- 1375 Gebhard von Wiltperg
- 1377 Botho von Czastolowitz , later also Landvogt von Zittau
- 1380–1386 Anshelm von Ronow , later also governor of Görlitz and Zittau
- 1387–1390 Jeschko Lubolitz
- 1389–1394 Otto von Kittlitz , later also governor of Upper Lusatia
- 1394–1395 Balthasar von Ilow
- 1397–1407 Hynek Hlawatsch Berka von Dubá , later also governor of Upper Lusatia
- 1409–1413 Hans von Torgow, (Hans von Torgau)
- 1414–1438 Hans von Polenz , also administrator of the Upper Lusatian Landvogtei, he was also temporarily pledge holder of Lower Lusatia
- 1438–1447 Nikolaus von Polenz
- 1447–1450 Otto von Schlieben
- 1450–1453 Botho von Ileburg
- 1453–1456 Otto von Schlieben (see above)
- 1456 Paul von Kunersdorf
- 1457–1459 Wittchin von Kottwitz
- 1459–1461 Georg von Waldenfels
- 1462–1467 Albrecht Kostka von Postupitz
- 1463 Seyfried von Pytschen
- 1467–1469 Botho von Ileburg the Elder
- 1469–1477 Jaroslav III. von Sternberg , was previously bailiff of Upper Lusatia
- 1477–1480 Melchior von Loeben
- 1480 Wenzel von Bieberstein
- 1481 Jahn (Johann) von Zawolsky
- 1481–1485 Georg von Stein , was also governor of Upper Lusatia
- 1486–1490 Siegmund von der Weitmühl
- 1489–1492 nickel from Köckritz
- 1493–1504 Heinrich III. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meißen and captain of royal Bohemian fiefdoms
- 1504–1506 Sigismund , Duke of Glogau and Troppau , he was also Governor of Upper Lusatia and from 1506 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1506–1508 Georg von Schellenberg , Prince of Jägerndorf
- 1509–1539 Heinrich Tunkel von Bernitzko
- 1540–1554 Albrecht von Schlick, Count of Passaun
- 1556–1570 Bohuslav Felix von Lobkowitz and Hassenstein
- 1571–1595 Jaroslav von Kolowrat
- 1595–1598 Karl von Kittlitz
- 1599–1619 Heinrich Anselm von Promnitz
- 1619–1620 Heinrich Wilhelm Graf zu Solms
- 1621–1622 Heinrich Anselm von Promnitz
- 1623–1654 Siegmund Seyfrid von Promnitz (1595–1654), son of the previous one
- 1654–1665 Heinrich Joachim von der Schulenburg
After the death of Heinrich Joachim von der Schulenburg, the office of governor was no longer occupied. The new sovereign of Lower Lusatia, Duke Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg, replaced the bailiwick in 1666 with an upper office government consisting of a president and four councilors.
literature
- Luděk Březina: The Governor of Lower Lusatia between royal power and estates (1490–1620). A servant of two masters? Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2017, digitized version
- Rudolf Lehmann : The bailiffs in Lower Lusatia. In: Walter Schlesinger (Ed.): Festschrift for Friedrich von Zahn . Volume 1. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Graz 1968. pp. 429-471.
- Johann Wilhelm Neumann : Attempt of a history of the Lower Lusatian land bailiffs . Luebben. Volume 1 , 1832, Volume 2 , 1833.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Lehmann : History of Niederlausitz (publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin 5), Berlin 1963, p. 262f.