Melchior from Wurmbrand
Melchior von Wurmbrand († after 1637) was an armaments contractor, officer in the Swedish service and as such an actor in the Thirty Years War .
Life
Baron Melchior von Wurmbrand came from the Austrian line of the Counts of Wurmbrand-Stuppach and was a son of Hieronymus Wurmbrand and his wife Baron Barbara von Künsberg .
Wurmbrand was a knight of the Order of Malta and was in the service of the Upper Austrian estates until 1620 . For the years 1621 to 1622 he changed as colonel in the service of the general Ernst von Mansfeld .
After James Seaton , who had lost a leg in the storming of Riga , died, Wurmbrand took over his court or garrison regiment in 1624/1625. Wurmbrand sold his invention, the so-called leather cannon , to the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and in 1627 received the Juleta estate in Södermanland together with a number of farms worth 11,200 thalers for cannons for the ironworks located there to establish the Swedish army. Afterwards he carried the title of Baron to Juleta . After production was up and running, Wurmbrand leased the plant to Jakob De la Gardie . The cannons were first used in 1627 off Wormditt . His regiment, increased with men recruited in Riga , took over in 1629, first as commander , later as owner Thomas Kerr .
In 1633 Wurmbrand wrote to Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In general, he was particularly favored by the Swedes, who otherwise addressed him with the rank of colonel, which was expressed above all in further donations by the king, which took place in quick succession. First, on November 7, 1630, Wurmbrand received the Nemerow Commandery near Neubrandenburg as a replacement for the loss of the property that he had had for usufruct as a Knight of St. John, then he became Governor of Donauwörth and Lauingen and in 1632 received the rule of Ottobeuren . He also had properties in Blumenberg . This property in Swabia is said to have ended after the battle of Nördlingen at the beginning of September 1634, because Wurmbrand fell into Croatian captivity after the battle near Neresheim and is said to have been brought to death there in Heilmann . On the other hand, Wurmbrand led a legal dispute in 1636 and probably also in 1637 over the claims to the Commandery Nemerow with Count Heinrich Volrath von Stolberg , who was Komtur from 1621 to 1641 ibid .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wurmbrand-Stuppach, Melchior the Younger, Baron . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1889, p. 302 ( digital copy ).
- Hans von Zwiedineck-Südhorst : Wurmbrand, Melchior Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 338.
Web links
- Bernd Warlich: Wurmbrand (Wurmbrandt), Melchior Freiherr von auf: The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports (accessed on August 21, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Letter Archive in the Swedish National Archives
- ↑ a b Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History of the Johanniter Comthureien Nemerow and Gardow. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . Vol. 9, 1844, pp. 63-64, ( online ).
- ^ Johann Heilmann : War history of Bavaria, Franconia, Palatinate and Swabia 1506-1651. Volume 2, Munich 1868, p. 466
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wurmbrand, Melchior from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Actor in the Thirty Years War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1637 |