Reinprecht V. von Walsee

Family coat of arms of those of Walsee

Reinprecht V of Walsee († 19th May 1483 ), from the Ministerialengeschlecht the Walseer , was from 1467 to 1478, as did his grandfather Reinprecht II. Of Walsee and his father Reinprecht IV. Of Walsee captain the 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

After Reinprecht IV. Von Walsee died in 1450, Emperor Friedrich III. the main team on the Enns with Johann von Schaunberg († November 16, 1453) occupied. His sons Wolfgang V. von Walsee and Reinprecht V. therefore stayed mostly at the court of the emperor, who treated them benevolently. Emperor Friedrich bestowed certain privileges on the Walseeers, but in the Wiener Neustädter Agreement of December 6, 1450, he also secured the concession that the high court should revert to the sovereign prince on all their rulers if the two Walseeers should die without male heirs.

In December 1451, the brothers Wolfgang V and Reinprecht V joined with Emperor Friedrich III, whose brother Albrecht VI. and King Ladislaus Postumus took the Roman procession and accompanied them to Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, where Christmas was celebrated. The two brothers returned home from there and allied themselves with Ulrich von Eyczing . While Wolfgang was politically very active and, with short interruptions, from 1452 until his death in 1466, he was captain on the Enns, Reinprecht lived rather withdrawn. With the death of his brother Wolfgang, who died childless, all of his goods were passed on to Emperor Friedrich III. inherited, the importance of the Walsee family had dwindled.

Reinprecht V. was the last male descendant of the once so widely ramified Walsee, but was not able to stand out personally or to stop the economic decline of his house. A characteristic of the difficult situation was that after Wolfgang's death in 1466 the important position of captain ob der Enns remained vacant for six months despite urgent problems. At that time, Georg von Stein , former Chancellor of Archduke Albrecht VI. , and Wilhelm von Puchheim in the service of the Bohemian King Georg von Podiebrad . Since Georg von Stein refused to surrender the Steyr pledge to the emperor , Friedrich III wanted to. Seize the town and castle of Steyr in early 1467 during Georg von Stein's absence. He sent the 23-year-old Duke Albrecht of Saxony , Wolfgang von Schaunberg, Reinprecht V and Georg Volkenstorf with about 400 mounted men to Steyr, who received homage from the citizens but were unable to take the castle. When Georg von Stein returned, he looted and plundered property of Reinprecht V and the Volkenstorfer between Enns and Traun and the Baumgartenberg monastery in revenge . Reinprecht V wanted to prevent the looting from Altpernstein Castle with his people and mobilized farmers, but about 200 of them were killed by Stein's Bohemian mercenaries in the nearby Kirchdorf an der Krems market . Georg von Stein received 10,000 gold guilders for his withdrawal and in exchange for Steyr.

In the following years Reinprecht V had to repel further attacks by Georg von Stein and the Bohemian aristocrats and, above all, to defend Freistadt and Haslach , which was sacked on August 15, 1469. Tired of the constant skirmishes, Reinprecht V resigned his office as the last Walsee captain on the Enns around Easter 1478. His successor was Bernhard von Scherffenberg . From 1482 Reinprecht V. stayed mainly in Nieder-Wallsee . From his hereditary positions he handed over the Styrian office of chief custodian to the brothers Siegmund and Heinrich Prüschenk , on March 13, 1483 the Austrian hereditary marshal's office to his cousin Georg von Schaunberg. With Reinprecht's death, the once powerful and branched family of the Walsee died out, which the town of Bad Waldsee in Baden-Württemberg as well as the town and castle Wallsee in Lower Austria still remember today .

Possessions

The property that Reinprecht IV had left to his two sons Wolfgang V and Reinprecht V was no longer as extensive as it was in Reinprecht II's time, but it was still one of the most important in Austria. Under the ambitious but economically unsuccessful Wolfgang V. von Walsee, considerable possessions were already lost. With the distribution of property concluded on August 20, 1456 with his brother Wolfgang, Reinprecht V had at least his own property. Since Reinprecht had no male descendants, most of his possessions fell to Emperor Friedrich III in 1483.

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, II. Half, p. 235) reprinted separately (= Archive for Austrian history. Volume 95, pp. 235–578, I-15103/95, ISSN  0003-9322 ). Vienna 1906, 344 pages (especially IX. Section “Wolfgang V. and Reinprecht V. von Walsee (1450–1483).” Pp. 222–265).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 243.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 223.
3. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 225.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Doblinger 1906, p. 248.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Doblinger 1906, p. 249.
6. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 255.
7. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 257.
8. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 232.