Rudolf von Stubenberg

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Rudolf von Stubenberg , engraving from the 17th century

Rudolf von Stubenberg (Czech: Rudolf ze Stubenberka ; † February 1, 1620 in Jičín ) was a Bohemian nobleman who took an active part in class politics. He came from the Stubenberg noble family in Styria .

Life

Rudolf's year of birth is unknown. He was the first from the Kapfenberg line of the Protestant Styrian lords of Stubenberg, who took up his permanent residence in the Bohemian Neustadt an der Mettau , which had been in the family's possession since 1548. When the three brothers Rudolf, Friedrich and Georg Hartmann, who were still alive at the time, were inherited in 1588, the Bohemian inheritance fell to Rudolf. Around 1590 he also owned the Hummel estate.

Rudolf's first marriage was Elisabeth von Khevenhüller (* 1569), with whom he had a daughter who died in childhood. In his second marriage he married Katharina ( Kateřina ), daughter of Václav Smiřický (1563–1593) from the Nachoder line of the noble family Smiřický von Smiřice and Dorothea, born. from Sternberg. Both of Rudolf's wives died after a short marriage. In 1610 Rudolf married Justina von Zelking for the third time in Linz . In 1619 the only son Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg was born, who became a well-known baroque poet.

Rudolf took an active part in the Bohemian Estates politics and is said to have been involved in both the Estates uprising and the Prague fall from the window . In 1620 he belonged to an imperial delegation, which should settle the inheritance disputes of the Smiřický sisters Elisabeth ( Alžběta ) and Margareta ( Markéta ), married Slawata in the Jičín castle . During the negotiations on February 1, 1620, Elisabeth blew up the castle. Rudolf von Stubenberg was among the 50 people killed.

Although Rudolf was no longer alive, his entire property was confiscated by Emperor Ferdinand II after the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 in the course of the persecution of Protestants in Bohemia. The reign of Neustadt passed to Albrecht von Wallenstein , who, however, sold it on after a short time.

Rudolf's widow Justina, who was destitute after the expropriation, had to leave Neustadt Castle with her son Johann Wilhelm, who was born in April 1619 . They found admission to the Schallaburg with their wealthy Lower Austrian relative Georg von Stubenberg , the cousin of the deceased husband or father Rudolf. Georg von Stubenberg was forced to emigrate to Regensburg in 1630 , where he died that same year. The widow Justinia and her son Johann Wilhelm emigrated to Saxony, where Justinia died in 1632. The son Johann Wilhelm, who was 13 years old when his mother died, was only given the rule of Schallaburg as an imperial fiefdom in 1641 after protracted disputes. His son Rudolf Wilhelm von Stubenberg , grandson of Rudolf von Stubenberg, grew up there after 1643 until he too emigrated to Regensburg in 1664.

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personal data
SURNAME Stubenberg, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolf ze Stubenberka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Participants in the bohemian uprising and in the Prague lintel
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1620
Place of death Jičín