Paltram in front of the Freithof

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Paltram in front of the Freithof (* around 1220 probably in Vienna ; † 1287 or 1288 before Acre in Palestine ) was an Austrian knight and bailiff who held a leading position in Vienna similar to that of the mayor .

Life

Paltram in front of the Freithof belonged to an old Viennese knightly family that played a leading role here. The father of the same name lived on Hohen Markt between 1230 and 1233 , and the mother came from the Griffin family . Paltram himself was first mentioned in a document in 1239 as a Viennese citizen at the court of Duke Friedrich II , the last Babenberger . Later he was chamber count in 1267 and 1276 and held the office of city ​​judge in 1269 and bailiff from 1271–1274. This time was marked by the dispute between the Bohemian King Ottokar II. Přemysl and Rudolf von Habsburg over the Austrian legacy of the Babenbergs. Paltram appeared here several times at the head of the Viennese citizenship and was like these partisans of Ottokar. When the opposing parties reached a peace agreement in 1276, Ottokar obtained an amnesty for Paltram. But since he continued to appear as a partisan of Ottokar, Paltram was ostracized and had to flee to Lower Bavaria with his family in 1278. There he was enfeoffed with Karlstein Castle near Reichenhall and was also based in Landshut . He did not return alive from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1287. He may have been buried in the St. Bernard Chapel of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, which he donated . His sons later went back to Vienna.

The nickname Paltrams comes from the fact that he lived in the Margaretenhof until 1278, a building that was directly adjacent to the Stephansfreithof in Vienna. Numerous pious foundations have come down to us from Paltram. In addition to the Margaret Chapel in his house, he donated primarily to the Order of the Cistercians . He gave the Zwettl and Heiligenkreuz monasteries as much consideration as the Cistercian convent of St. Niklas in front of the Stubentor , to which he donated a house in Singerstrasse in 1272. Gutolf von Heiligenkreuz reports that in 1276 Paltram acquired the skull of Saint Deliciana, one of the eleven thousand virgins of Saint Ursula , in Strahov Monastery in Prague , and gave it to the Nikolauskirche in Singerstraße. He also considered monasteries in Bavaria. In 1272 he donated his castle in Unterlaa to the Order of St. John .

The first chronicler of Vienna, Jans der Enikel , was related to Paltram on his mother's side. In 1895 the Paltramplatz in Vienna- Favoriten was named after the Paltram family.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswald Redlich and Anton E. Schönbach (eds.): Des Gutolf von Heiligenkreuz Translatio sanctae Delicianae . In: Session reports of the philosophical-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences . 159th Volume, Second Treatise, Vienna 1908

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SURNAME Paltram in front of the Freithof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian knight and bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH around 1287