Reinprecht IV of Walsee

Family coat of arms of those of Walsee

Reinprecht IV von Walsee (* 1405/06; † March 10, 1450 ), from the ministerial family of the Walseer , was from 1423 to 1450 like his father Reinprecht II von Walsee captain ob der Enns . The discontinuous numbering results from the traditional counting, which takes into account the entire family of the Walsee, which means that the name Reinprecht III. a distant relative from the Walsee-Drosendorf line, attested from 1349 to 1353, carries.

Life

The only 16-year-old Reinprecht took over the main team on the Enns from his father Reinprecht II von Walsee, who died in 1422 . The young inexperienced Reinprecht was no longer able to build up the close relationship that his father cultivated as an advisor with Duke Albrecht V.

In his first years in office, Reinprecht had to arm and fight against the Hussites several times . When an army of the Taborites besieged the city of Zwettl in March 1427, the army deployed by Duke Albrecht V, led by Reinprecht IV and Leopold von Krayg, rushed to the relief where it came to the battle of Zwettl on March 25, 1427 . After four hours the Austrians captured the enemy's wagon castle and put the enemy to flight. But instead of vigorously pursuing the fleeing Hussites, the victors plundered the abandoned wagon castle and were attacked and beaten again by the Hussites who had rallied again. The loss of the Austrians, for which according to Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini the carelessness of the Walseer was responsible, is put at 9,000 men.

As a result, Austria north of the Danube was once again devastated, the Mühlviertel markets in Haslach an der Mühl and Leonfelden went up in flames. According to traditional salary receipts, the Walsee possessions of Schloss Guntersdorf and Schloss Asparn had to be strongly manned and maintained for at least two years.

Reinprecht IV tried to bring in the increasing financial expenses through more precise accounting and increasing the services of the subjects, which was an oppressive burden for the population. Reinprecht did not treat the citizens of the princely cities leniently either, but damaged their commercial rights. In the salt trade, Reinprecht had Bavarian salt himself sold to Bohemia via Ottensheim and Leonfelden via the Linzer Steig to Freistadt, contrary to the ducal road restrictions . This is evidenced by a complaint written to Duke Albrecht on May 4, 1431 by the citizens of Linz who were in dispute with the Walsee burgrave of Waxenberg . Ulrich von Eyczing then gradually took over the position of the Walseer as ducal financier .

Possessions

In 1435 Reinprecht IV was forced to return numerous possessions to the dukes Albrecht V and Friedrich V (later Emperor Friedrich III ). Among them were

• in Styria the Mahrenberg pledge (Radlje ob Dravi) and the town of Windischgraz (Slovenj Gradec) ,
• in the area above the Enns Attersee , Frankenburg , Puchheim , Seisenburg , Waxenberg with Ottensheim, Falkenstein , Neuburg am Inn
• in the area under the Enns the county Peilstein and the castle Freyenstein .

family

→ Main article : Lords of Walsee

literature

• Max Doblinger : The Lords of Walsee. A contribution to the Austrian aristocratic history. From the archive for Austrian history (vol. XCV, second half, p. 235) printed separately. (= Archive for Austrian History. Volume 95, pp. 235–578, I-15103/95, ISSN  0003-9322 .) Vienna 1906, 344 pages (especially VIII. Section “Reinprecht IV. Von Walsee (1422–1450)) . "Pp. 201-222).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 201.
2. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 220.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Doblinger 1906, p. 205.
4. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 210.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 207.
6. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 212.