Schenk von Landsberg

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The Schenk von Landsberg family belonged to the Brandenburg and Lusatian nobility and were among the most influential families in the southern Mark Brandenburg , especially in the centuries of the late Middle Ages . It first appeared in a document in 1207 with Otto Schenk von Landsberg and died in 1721 with Ludwig-Alexander Schenk von Landsberg.

history

Wilhelm Schenk von Landsberg (approx. 1500–1559)

Until the middle of the 13th century, the Landsberg taverns served the Wettins as castle men and ministerials at Landsberg Castle (Saxony-Anhalt) . From 1330 they appear at Teupitz Castle . Over the centuries, the Landsberg taverns created a sphere of influence in the southern Mark Brandenburg and in the Lausitz as well as around Teupitz and Königs Wusterhausen , which is still known today as the Schenkenländchen . The castles and palaces of Teupitz, Wusterhausen and Groß Leuthen were places of residence of various branches of the family.

In Saxony, too, the family acquired a larger estate around Seyda , east of Wittenberg, in 1235 . She led there the name "Schenken von Seyda" (or "Sydow"), but the line died out in 1366. Later, the rule of Seyda was given back to the Schenken von Landsberg, which they sold in 1501 with 15 official villages and 9 wild stamps to the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise . The old castle was completely removed from 1573.

Wusterhausen Castle , owned by the von Landsberg taverns since around 1500, was sold in 1669 and then acquired by the Great Elector in 1682 . Ludwig-Alexander Schenk von Landsberg sold Teupitz Castle and the surrounding villages in 1717 to King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Groß Leuthen Castle was acquired by Wilhelm Schenk von Landsberg in 1517 and stayed with the brothers Carl Albrecht Schenk von Landsberg and Ludwig Alexander until the family died out Teupitz 1721 in their possession. Four Renaissance tombstones of family members have been preserved in the Groß Leuthen church.

people

  • Albrecht Schenk von Landsberg (* before 1394, † 1427) on Teupitz and Seyda was the politically most influential knight in his family. First advice of the Saxon Elector Rudolf III of Askanien in Wittenberg, he came through his Lusatian fiefdom to the circle of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus. At the last stage of the German royal election in 1411, he represented the Saxon electoral vote, with which Sigismund of Luxembourg, Wenceslas brother and King of Hungary, was elected Roman-German king. In 1412 he became the official councilor of King Sigismund and in the following years often stayed at his royal courts in Hungary or in his entourage. In 1415 Albrecht Schenk v. Landsberg commissioned by the king to solve an inner-city dispute in the imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck and thus to end the imperial ban. In 1417 he was appointed by the king to arbitrate a dispute between the new Margrave of Brandenburg, Friedrich I of Hohenzollern , and the Archbishop of Magdeburg.
  • Otto Schenk von Landsberg (* before 1445, † 1499) on Teupitz, Seyda and Wusterhausen was another politically influential family representative. Since 1460 he has been named as the council of the successive Hohenzollern Margraves of Brandenburg, Friedrich II., Albrecht Achilles and Johann Cicero. In 1461 he first went in the wake of the Saxon Duke, Wilhelm III. von Sachsen , Landgrave of Thuringia, on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This pilgrimage lasted from March 26th to October 28th and thus 28 weeks. It led from Wilhelm's landgrave seat in Weimar via Nuremberg, Innsbruck, Brixen, Venice, along the Dalmatian coast and Greek islands via Rhodes and Cyprus to Jaffa. The actual stay in the holy land lasted two weeks. He accompanied the Duke of Saxony, Wilhelm the Brave , to Jerusalem, where he received the knighthood of Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in 1461 . The journey (and Schenk Otto's participation) is described in a contemporary source; in a pilgrimage book written by one of the accompanying clergy (new edition: JG Kohl, 1868). Schenk Otto held as the official bride suitor ("Freiwerber") for Johann Cicero in 1473 with the (mentioned pilgrim brother) Duke Wilhelm III. of Saxony for the hand of his daughter Margarete. From 1476 he became the authorized representative and governor of the Brandenburg Margrave during the Glogau succession dispute, which he was involved in resolving in 1482 by signing a contract in Kamenz (the northern part of the duchy around Crossen came to Brandenburg).

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Biedermann: History of the Teupitz rulership and their master family, the Landsberg taverns. In: The German Herald. Berlin 1933/34 (94 pages).
  • JG Kohl: Pilgrimage of Landgrave Wilhelm the Brave of Thuringia to the Holy Land in 1461 . Bremen (1868): CE Müller.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Kohl: Pilgrimage of Landgrave Wilhelm the Brave of Thuringia to the Holy Land in 1461 , Müller 1868, page 70