Peter Wok from Rosenberg

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Peter Wok from Rosenberg

Peter Wok von Rosenberg (Czech Petr Vok z Rožmberka ; born October 1, 1539 in Krumau , † November 6, 1611 in Wittingau ) was a Bohemian class politician . With him, the noble family of Rosenbergs died out in the male line.

Life

Peter Wok von Rosenberg was the youngest child of Jost III. von Rosenberg from his second marriage to Anna von Roggendorf († 1562). When he was 14 days old, his father died. Therefore, he was first raised by Peter V von Rosenberg and later placed under the guardianship of Albrecht von Guttenstein ( z Gutnštejna ) and Hieronymus Schlicks von Passaun and Ulrich Holickýs von Sternberg . 1547–1551 he received lessons from the tutor Gabriel Svěchin von Paumberk, followed by Jan Makovský von Makov (also called Jan Aquarius Soběslavský ) from 1552–1557 . Then he ran his own small farm. He was the only Rosenberger to turn to Protestantism .

At the beginning of the 1560s he was accepted into the service of Maximilian II. At the imperial court, he met Wilhelm I of Orange , who inspired him to travel through north-western Europe. On December 8, 1562, accompanied by other aristocrats, he undertook a cavalier tour that took him via Germany to the Netherlands and England (Frankfurt, Cologne, Aachen, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, London, Utrecht and Amsterdam). On April 23, 1563 he returned to Český Krumlov.

In 1565 he received the dominions of Winterberg , Želeč , Choustnik and Sobieslau as a fief from his older brother Wilhelm von Rosenberg . In 1569 he acquired the rule of Bechin . There he resided in the castle , which he had the Italian builder Baldassare Maggi convert into a Renaissance castle.

At the age of 41, he married Katharina von Ludanitz ( Kateřina z Ludanic ) on February 14, 1580 , who was the last of her sex to bring the Moravian rule Helfstein into marriage. Before that, he went over to the Bohemian Brothers , to whom his wife belonged before the wedding.

After the death of his brother Wilhelm, Peter Wok became regent of the Rosenberg family in 1592. In addition to his own possessions, he now also owned Krumau, Prachatitz , Netolice , Rosenberg , Wittingau , Gratzen , Helfenburg , Drslavice , Libějovice , Miličín , Haslach , Reichenstein and Silberberg . As early as 1593 he had to sell Helfenburg and Miličín, 1596 Bechin, Želeč and Stráž nad Nežárkou , from 1595 to 1597 gradually the rule Choustník, 1599 the Austrian Haslach and the Silesian mines Reichenstein and Silberberg due to high debt . In 1601 he sold the Krumau rule to Emperor Rudolf II , as well as Prachatice and Netolice.

The renewed fighting against the Turks also became a financial burden for Peter Wok . In 1594 he was appointed commander of the Bohemian estates. He moved to Komorn with a demotivated, underpaid and poorly cared for army . Since the Turks had withdrawn because of the approaching winter, the Bohemian army was able to take Komorn without a fight.

After the sale of the Krumlov domain, he resided on the Wittingau from 1602 . The extensive Rosenberg archive and the valuable library were also moved there. Both were under the direction of the archivist and librarian Václav Březan , who organized the holdings and researched the history of the Rosenbergs.

From 1606 to 1609, Peter Wok organized some meetings of the class opposition in the Austrian monarchy in Wittingau and earned merit in the publication of the majesty letter with which the evangelical classes were guaranteed religious freedom. On June 23, 1609 he was elected honorary chairman of a 30-member government. Shortly before his death, he financed the abdication of the Passau Army, which had invaded and plundered southern Bohemia.

Like his brother Wilhelm, Peter Wok also promoted science and literature. Above all, he collected scientific equipment and curiosities and supported natural history research and the publication of historical and theological works. Both brothers supported Charles University and set up secondary schools on their domains. In Soběslav, Peter Wok built a model Protestant high school. The library set up by both brothers contained valuable manuscripts and incunabula and, with around 11,000 volumes, was one of the largest aristocratic libraries of its time. Like his brother, he was interested in alchemy , though not as intensely as his brother.

Petr Wok von Rosenberg died childless in 1611. With him, the Rosenbergs died out in the male line. He was buried in the family crypt in Hohenfurth Abbey next to his wife, who had already died in 1601.

He designated his nephew Johann Zrinski von Seryn, who was the son of Peter Wok's sister Eva and her husband Nikola Šubić Zrinski , to inherit his Rosenberg rule . Since Johann Zrinski died in 1612, Rosenberg and the other possessions of Peter Wok passed to the Lords of Schwamberg in accordance with an inheritance contract from 1484 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaroslav Pánek / Miloslav Polívka: The Bohemian Aristocratic Journeys and Their Change from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, in: Beihefte der Francia 60 (2005), pages 53-69.
  2. ↑ Anna Kubíková: prodeji českokrumlovského Panství Cisari Rudolfovi II a přestěhování rožmberského archivu do Třeboně.. In: Archivum Trebonense. 10. 2002, ZDB -ID 751274-0 , pp. 3-13.
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personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Peter Wok from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rožmberka, Petr Vok z
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian class politician with whom the aristocratic Rosenbergs died out in the male line
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Krumlov
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1611
Place of death Wittingau