Meinhard Tröstel

Meinhard Tröstel (* after 1200; † 1264 ) was a wealthy and influential ministerial of the last Babenberger Frederick II the Arguable , who fell against the Hungarians in the Battle of the Leitha (1246) . Later he was a servant of the Dukes of Austria . Its origin is not exactly known, but there are reasonable assumptions that it comes from the Traun family. Around 1240 he is said to have been one of the group of minstrels who gathered at the court of the Babenberg duke.

Life

Tröstel first attested in 1241 in a toll exemption certificate for Gundacker von Starhemberg by Duke Friedrich II. It can be proven from 1240 to before 1254 as “scriba ducis in Anaso” (ducal land clerk of Enns). In 1246 the Duke entrusted Linz and Passau to the Tröstel and Albero von Polheim for administration, and around 1255 he even called himself Trustelo de Lintz . It was not until 1252/53 that Ottokar II Přemysl of Bohemia was able to take control of the city of Linz.

A few years earlier Tröstel had seized the Klaus Feste in the Steyrtal. This led to a long complaint from the ducal bailiff of Wels, Heinrich Vorprot, to the duke: Dominus Trostilo had appropriated the income from the Klaus festival, as well as the ducal fish woad and the hunt for Windischgarsten and the mountains that belonged to Klaus . The game became completely extinct due to devastation. He weighed down the landholders with tax claims and captured them. According to the preliminary protests, the Duke should entrust the administration to Albero von Polheim, a district judge in ob der Enns since 1237, and take possession of the Klaus Feste himself. It is not exactly known why Tröstel was able to take possession of Klaus. It is presumed that he was a financier of the dukes and that he was harmless for his claims through the usurpation of Klaus. In 1282 Albrecht von Habsburg enfeoffed Albero de Buchheim with the fortress of Klaus.

Tröstel was married to Chunigunde von Zierberg (presumably died around 1255) and so came into the possession of the Zierberg rule . Because of his relationship with the Lords of Traun, a large property complex around Langschlag in the Waldviertel came to Tröstel. This area had been wrested from the then uninhabited northern forest by Ernst von Traun around 1200 and declared his free property in 1209. Around the middle of the 13th century, a large part of this property came to Tröstel and his wife Kunigunde. 1255 Tröstel received by Heinrich von Kuenring, Marshal in Austria, to compensate for losses devastation that Heinrich von Kuenring and his brother Hadmar in their rebellion against Duke Friedrich II. The Belligerent had done in Langschlag, the admission that in Langenslage the lower courts should be carried out by him and he should sit at the judges' table in the case of crimes worthy of death; a convict's property should go to consolers. In his second marriage, Tröstel was married to Elisabeth von Truchsen (on Pernstein), who came from an important Carinthian noble family. After Tröstel’s death, she married Sighart von Lobenstein, which subsequently led to inheritance claims.

Tröstel maintained close relationships with the Passau bishopric and was endowed with a number of fiefs from there. Since he was wealthy, he was able to support the diocese with funds, which led to the pledge and subsequent bestowal of a number of fiefs by the bishop. It also appears in a number of Passau documents, but at the back. Meinhardus dictus Tröstilo is mentioned in an important feudal lapel of the Marshal of Bohemia, Wok von Rosenberg , and was also present in 1258 in a confirmation of ownership from King Ottokar to the St. Florian monastery . In 1264 he was named as a witness in a court letter from the judge ob der Enns, Chunrat von Sumerau, in favor of the Garsten monastery . He died shortly afterwards as there was no further news from him.

The daughter Margarethe des Tröstels and Chunigunde von Zierberg were married to Siboto von Lonstorf ; as a result, Zierberg came to the Lonstorfer. The Passau fiefdom of the Tröstel in the vicinity of Linz also went to the Lonstorf family. Hartneid and his son Ulrich von Traun, however, raised inheritance claims to the Ipf-Zierberg property after the consolation's death, but were unable to assert themselves, as a decision of 1272 shows. Sighart von Lobenstein, who married the consoler's second wife in 1265, managed to get the Bavarian fiefs of the Zierberg rule for himself. The Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria Henry transferred in 1274 the fief which originally Bruno had then possessed of ornamental Berg, whose son Ulrich and then Meinhart Tröstel and his two wives Cunegonde of ornamental Berg and Elizabeth of Truchsen, Ulrich von Lobenstein and his son Sighart .

literature

• Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 , p. 63, 75 and 78 .
• Franz Wilflingseder : History of the rule Lustenfelden near Linz (Kaplanhof). Special publications on the history of the city of Linz. Book publisher of the Democratic Printing and Publishing Society, Linz 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tröstel von Zierberg Meinhard ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Upper Austria in the late Middle Ages - the 13th century from the Interregnum (1246) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
3. ↑ Hans Krawarik: Rise and Versippung of the Achleiten family. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 114a, Linz 1969, p. 89 ( PDF (2.1 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
4. ↑ Chronicle of Langschlag ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 592 kB)