Ox War 1421–1422

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The ox war 1421–1422 was a military conflict between the county of Haag under George III. and the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. in the years 1421 to 1422.

course

From 1420 to 1422 the Bavarian War raged between Heinrich von Bayern-Landshut and his cousin Ludwig VII. The "Gebarteten" of Bavaria-Ingolstadt . Count Georg III. from the Fraunhofer family tried to take advantage of this and to expand the power of his county of Haag with the war against Heinrich. Despite surprising military victories against the Lower Bavarian duke, this war ultimately brought him nothing. In 1421 Georg stormed Giebing Castle with his Hague crowd and burned it down; he took the strongly fortified village . In 1422 he burned the court brands Eberspeck and Schrenk near Erding and several dozen villages in Lower Bavaria before he sank into the swamp of the Starzelbach-Moos with his armored warhorse and was captured by the duke's troops. He was only released on payment of a ransom.

Literary reception

The Ox War , a novel by Ludwig Ganghofer published in 1914, describes the conflict. The novel was filmed several times:

literature

  • Rudolf Münch: The big book of the county of Haag. History Association of the Reichsgrafschaft Haag eV, 1984

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Zöpf: Historical news about the former noble residences Schwindkirchen , Schiltern , Giebing and Schönbrunn , Dulzheim, Lappach and Burgau in the royal district court in Haag . Munich 1863 ( e-copy ). (= Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History , Volume 23, Munich 1863, pp. 359–368, online ).