Melchior von Rechenberg

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Melchior von Rechenberg , from 1611 Freiherr von Rechenberg (Czech: Melchior z Rechenberku ; * May 23, 1549 at Gut Schlawa , Principality of Glogau ; †  January 29, 1625 ) was a Saxon-Silesian nobleman with extensive possessions in Upper Lusatia and Silesia . From 1589 to 1601 he was governor of the then Bohemian county of Glatz .

Life

He came from an old Meißnian noble family who first appeared in a document in 1270 with Apitz de Rechenberc at Rechenberg Castle , whose direct lineage begins with Heinrich von Rechenberg around 1290 and which appears in the Principality of Liegnitz from 1305 . He was the son of Balthasar von Rechenberg (around 1506–1567) and Anna von Unruh (around 1513–1590).

From 1573 to 1575 Rechenberg stayed for study purposes in Italy, where he was matriculated at the universities of Padua, Siena and Bologna. After his return he married Magdalena von Dyhrn in his first marriage around 1576 at Gut Kontopp (* around 1558 at Gut Kontopp; † April 14, 1601). With her he had six children, four sons and two daughters. In his second marriage he married on May 11, 1604 Good Brodelwitz ( Principality of Breslau ) Magdalena von Haugwitz (* around 1564 at Gut Brodelwitz). The Rechenberg and the Haugwitz have the same coat of arms and are said to have a common root.

Since 1578 Rechenberg held the office of councilor at the Bohemian Court of Appeal and was accepted into the Bohemian knighthood in the same year . In 1589 he was promoted to governor of County Glatz. On July 6, 1594, he was asked by Emperor Rudolf II to collect a three-year tax of 1,200 thalers each from the Glatzer estates. Further tax claims were made from 1596.

On February 13, 1600, Rechenberg confirmed in Glatz that Barbara von Pannwitz, married to Adam von Seidlitz auf Mikulowitz, had no further inheritance claims to her brother Christoph von Pannwitz.

In the confessional disputes he was on the side of the Lutherans, but tried to mediate between the Catholics and the Lutherans. He dealt with the imperial edict of July 10, 1600, according to which only Catholic clergymen were to be appointed to the eleven royal patronage churches of the Glatzer country, only sluggishly. Therefore he was dismissed from office in 1601. The edict was only implemented under his successor in office Heinrich von Logau , who belonged to the Order of Malta .

Around 1610 Rechenberg owned the lords of Schlawa, Wartenberg , Leipe and Windischborau near Neustädtl , which had been an ancestral home of the Rechenbergs since the middle of the 14th century, all in Silesia, as well as Lodenau and Rothenburg in Upper Lusatia .

Rechenberg was raised on November 8, 1611 in Vienna to the Bohemian baron class with an increase in the name of “von Klitschdorf and Primbkenau” and on November 12, 1612 in Prague to the imperial baron class with a change of name to “Freiherr zu Klitschdorf and Primbkenau ”. Finally he received on February 1, 1621 in Prague the hereditary-Austrian baron status with improved coat of arms as "Baron von Warttenbergk".

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  1. ↑ a b Genealogical Society of Utah (familysearch.org)
  2. ^ A b novel by Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families. Verlag Degener, Neustadt (Aisch) 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , pp. 244–245.
  3. ^ Claudia Zonta: Silesian students at Italian universities. (PDF) A prosopographical study on the early modern history of education. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Melchior von Rechenberg. In: Documenta Rudolphina. Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Inheritance claims of Barbara von Pannwitz (PDF; 309 kB)
  6. ↑ Gustav Adolf Benrath (Ed.): Source book for the history of the Protestant Church in Silesia (= writings of the Federal Institute for East German Culture and History 1). Published by the Federal Institute for East German Culture and History. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55916-8 , S 114, books.google.de .
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. XI, Volume 122 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1 , p. 219f.
personal data
SURNAME Rechenberg, Melchior from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rechenberg, Melchior Freiherr von; Rechenberku, Melchior z; Rechenberka, Melichar z; Rachenberka, Melichar z (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the County of Glatz
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1549
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Schlawa , Duchy of Glogau
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1625