Leonhard von Völs

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Leonhard von Völs the Elder Ä. ( 1458 or 1459 - 1530 ) was a Tyrolean politician and soldier and one of the most famous owners of the Prösels Castle near Bozen .

biography

Leonhard was born as the son of Kaspar von Völs and Dorothea Weinegg. He lived in politically and militarily changeable times. His life was marked by a brilliant rise. From 1490 to 1501 Leonhard was the imperial tax collector for the salt mine in Hall in Tirol .

In 1499 he managed to make a name for himself in the war in the Inn Valley , in the Engadine War and in the war of the League of Cambrai against Venice (1508–1516) until he held the post of captain on the Adige and burgrave of Tyrol.

At the beginning of the 16th century he was one of the main actors in suppressing the peasant uprising of 1525, as well as in witch hunts and in the persecution of women suspected of using spells.

Leonhard was married three times, namely to Regina von Thun , Katharina von Firmian and Ursula von Montfort .

The epitaph of Leonhard and his third wife Ursula can be found in the "Velserischen Begrebnus" , which he donated while he was still alive, in the choir of the Bozen Dominican Church .

Leonhard's son of the same name, Leonhard von Völs d. J. was among the defenders of Vienna during the first Turkish siege of the city in 1529 and successfully commanded the defensive section around the castle gate, as the contemporary woodcut by Nikolaus Meldemann shows.

literature

  • Michael Forcher : Tyrol's history in words and pictures. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1984.

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SURNAME Leonhard von Völs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrolean politician and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH 1458
DATE OF DEATH 1530