Puta the Elder from Častolowitz

Puta the Elder from Častolowitz (first name also: Puota, Puotha ; last name also: Czastolowitz ; Tschastolowitz ; Czech: Půta starši z Častolovic ; † 1397 ) was an East Bohemian nobleman. He came from the noble family Častolowitz and held high offices in the Kingdom of Bohemia .

Career

Puta d. Ä. is first recorded for 1342, when King John of Luxembourg raised the village of Častolowitz , which was owned by Putas, to a town. Emperor Karl IV appointed him Burgrave of Pottenstein in 1352 . 1350-1369 he owned Liebenau Castle in the Waldenburger Bergland . After working at the Prague royal court, he held the office of governor of Frankenstein from 1368 to 1377 and governor of the Glatzer country from 1366 to 1378 . In addition, he administered 1372-1380 the Niederlausitz and 1377 part of Brandenburg . Under Karl's successor, Wenzel , Puta was captain of Luxembourg from 1384-1386 and from 1395 until his death again captain of Niederlausitz.

In 1387 he acquired together with Boček II from Podiebrad from the brothers Jan and Jaroslav von Meziříčí the dominions of Skuhrov and Rychmberk in the foothills of the Eagle Mountains. Since he signed these two lords over to his wife Anna in 1396, they must have been in his sole possession that year.

Puta d. Ä. was married to Anna († 1440/54), a daughter of Duke Johann II of Teschen-Auschwitz . The marriage came from the son of the same name Puta d. J. von Častolowitz .

literature

Emil Schieche: Political History from 1327–1526. In: Ludwig Petry , Josef Joachim Menzel, Winfried Irgang (eds.): From primeval times to the year 1526 (= History of Silesia. Vol. 1). 5th revised edition. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6341-5 , pp. 157-237, here pp. 185-201.
Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , pp. 92, 825.
Pavel Sedláček: Vztahy mezi Kladskem a Frankenštejnskem ve 14. a 15. stoleti. In: Kladský sborník 2, 1998, ISSN 1212-1223 , pp. 117–123, here p. 118.

Individual evidence

^ The dead nobility of the Prussian province of Silesia and Upper Lusatia. P. 21.
↑ Miroslav Plaček, Peter Futak: Páni for Kunštátu. Rod erbu vrchních pruhů na cestě k trůnu. Lidové Noviny, Praha 2006, ISBN 80-7106-683-4 , p. 342.

personal data
SURNAME	Puta the Elder from Častolowitz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Puota the Elder from Častolowitz; Puotha the Elder from Častolowitz; Puta the Elder from Czastolowitz; Puota the Elder from Czastolowitz; Puotha the Elder from Czastolowitz; Puta the Elder from Tschastolowitz; Puota the Elder from Tschastolowitz; Puotha the Elder from Tschastolowitz; Půta starši z Častolovic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian nobleman, captain of Glatz, Frankenstein, Brandenburg and Luxemburg, burgrave of Pottenstein
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1397

[1] The dead nobility of the Prussian province of Silesia and Upper Lusatia. P. 21.

[2] Miroslav Plaček, Peter Futak: Páni for Kunštátu. Rod erbu vrchních pruhů na cestě k trůnu. Lidové Noviny, Praha 2006, ISBN 80-7106-683-4 , p. 342.