Rudolf I of Walsee

Family coat of arms of those of Walsee

Rudolf I of Walsee (* about 1343; † 1405 ) from which Ministerialengeschlecht the Walseer , follower by Duke Albrecht III. , was from 1372 to 1373 Vogt and captain in Front Austria , from 1373 to 1379/84 Governor of Styria , from 1384 to 1397 Land Marshal of Lower Austria and from 1394 to 1395/96 captain of Trieste .

Life

A child engagement of about ten-year-old Rudolf I to Anna, the daughter of Dietrich von Hohenberg , was reversed by Rudolf's father Reinprecht I von Walsee in 1357.

Rudolf I accompanied his cousin Eberhard V. von Walsee -Linz, (regional) captain ob der Enns , in 1364 on the campaign against Bavaria and in 1368 on a campaign against the Venetians . There a friendly relationship developed with Hugo VIII von Duino , the most powerful nobleman in the extreme south of the Habsburg sphere of influence, who eventually married Rudolf's sister Anna. By Hugo's will from 1374, the Walsee were already contenders for a considerable part of his possessions.

In the spring of 1372 Rudolf I moved to Swabia in the service of the Habsburgs and was given the rulership of Alsace and Swabia for a year and a half . Rudolf watched over the security of trade in the interests of the local citizens and the mostly Italian merchants. His greatest adversary was the robber baron Johann Erbe. After Johann Erbe occupied Herlisheim Castle near Kolmar on New Year's Eve in 1373 and captured the wealthy Strasbourg citizen Eppe von Hadestat, Rudolf and the Strasbourgers conquered Herlisheim on January 8, 1373 and had 53 "villains" executed. Johann Erbe himself had meanwhile fled.

Immediately after his return in the summer of 1373, Rudolf I received the main team in Styria as a thank you for his services in Austria. In his frequent absences he was represented one after the other by the Walsee servants Albrecht der Gefeller, his burgrave on the Riegersburg , Otaker der Wolfstain and Peter Hinterholzer. In 1379 Rudolf's brother Reinprecht II suddenly took over the leading position among the Walseers. Rudolf I handed over the main team in Styria to his cousin Ulrich IV von Walsee -Drosendorf at the latest in 1384 and became the Austrian Land Marshal.

With the last decree of Hugo von Duino on November 11, 1390, after his death at the end of 1390, his rich possessions came to Rudolf I von Walsee and his house. As a result, Rudolf stayed increasingly in the south and became captain of Trieste on May 1, 1394. In 1397, Rudolf I von Walsee was replaced as the Austrian Land Marshal by Konrad von Maissau and, as the successor to Ulrich IV von Walsee-Drosendorf, the court master of Duke Wilhelm .

Possessions

Welsh possessions in 1422 in Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carniola and Istria

With the extinction of the other Walsee lines, the three brothers Rudolf I, Reinprecht II and Friedrich V von Walsee-Enns combined the Duino legacy and the entire property of the Walsee family in their hands from 1400 onwards. The brothers evidently did not undertake a formal division of the greatly increased parental property.

family

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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 chapter “The branch of Seuseneck: Reinprechts I. Sons Rudolf I. , Reinprecht II. And Friedrich V until the turn of the 14th century. ”Pp. 73-102).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Doblinger 1906, p. 74.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Doblinger 1906, p. 75.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Doblinger 1906, p. 76.
4. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 77.
5. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 79.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Doblinger 1906, p. 83.
7. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 88.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Doblinger 1906, p. 89.