Leopold von Stralendorf

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Leopold von Stralendorf at the age of 45

Leopold Freiherr von Stralendorf , also: Lippold [t] and von Stralendorff , (* around 1545 ; † September 4, 1626 in Heiligenstadt ) was senior magistrate for Eichsfeld, Imperial Privy Councilor and Imperial Vice Chancellor.

Life

Leopold Freiherr von Stralendorf came from the old Mecklenburg knight dynasty of the Stralendorff . Representatives of this noble family founded Stralendorf after 1160, after Henry the Lion had defeated the Slavic peoples .

Nothing is known about his parents, Ulrich von Stralendorf, Lord of Goldebee and Preensberg , and Metta von Oertzen and Leopold's youth.

In 1562 he is enrolled at the University of Rostock (as Lupoldus Stralendorp ). After completing his studies, von Stralendorf went to Speyer and Mainz in a legal case against his father, where he met the Jesuit Lambert Auer .

Lambert Auer introduced Stralendorf to the Catholic faith; Stralendorf then converted to Catholicism. At the beginning of the 1570s he entered the service of the Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Daniel Brendel von Homburg . In 1574 he came to the Eichsfeld with the Archbishop and on June 7th was appointed senior bailiff for the Eichsfeld for the deceased Caspar von Berlepsch . His first major task was successfully completed the imprisonment of for murder accused Berthold of Wintzingerodes on Schloss Bodenstein . On July 8, 1576, Lippoldt von Stralendorf married Margaretha von Dernbach, the sister of the abbot of Fulda, Balthasar von Dernbach, in Neuhof Palace .

Through his efforts to reinstate his brother-in-law, the imperial court in Prague became aware of Stralendorf. He became acquainted with Emperor Rudolf II and won his trust. At the request of the emperor, Stralendorf moved to Prague in June 1603 and was appointed Imperial Privy Councilor . Despite his old age, the Kaiser appointed him Vice Chancellor on November 22, 1605 . In 1606 he was appointed administrator of the Reich Chancellery. In 1607 Leopold von Stralendorf was awarded the hereditary baron dignity of the Bohemian gentry by the emperor. He had a reputation as one of the few ministers of the emperor to study the government files thoroughly and to be familiar with the complicated legal relationships in the empire . In the dispute over the Jülich succession , an expert opinion was launched under the name of Leopold von Stralendorf, which was intended to discredit Habsburg politics. Only in the 19th century did Friedrich Stieve prove that it was a Brandenburg forgery.

After the death of Emperor Rudolf II in January 1612, Stralendorf resigned from his offices. His son Peter Heinrich von Stralendorf followed him as Privy Councilor, Reichshofrat and Reich Vice Chancellor at the court of Ferdinand II.

literature

  • Felix Stieve:  Stralendorf, Leopold Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 493-495.
  • Holger Thomas Gräf: Leopold von Stralendorff (1545-1626) - Mecklenburg knight, senior bailiff on the Eichsfeld and imperial vice-chancellor. In: Eichsfeld yearbook. Volume 20 (2012). Pp. 81-92

Web links

Commons : Stralendorff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Stralendorff, Leopold Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) .; Temporal discrepancy between the date of birth and the source in LAGIS according to the contemporary copperplate engraving .
  2. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Felix Stieve: Stralendorf, Leopold Freiherr . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 36, p. 494.
  4. ^ Friedrich Meinecke : The Stralendorff report and the Jülich succession dispute. Kunow's printing press CR Brandt, Potsdam 1886.
  5. Friedrich Meinecke: Experienced . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1941, p. 116.