Schlik

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Family coat of arms of their Schlik in the coat of arms of 1416
Coat of arms of Count Schlik ( Siebmacher 1605)

The Counts Schlik ( Šlikové in Czech ), also spelled Schlick in the early modern period , were originally a patrician family with roots in the Bohemian Eger (Cheb).

history

It is possible that the family originally came from the Vogtland . The cloth merchant and councilor Heinrich I. Schlick can be traced back to Eger at the end of the 14th century and was married to the noble Italian Constantia, probably a daughter of Margrave Roland von Treviso. The rise of the family began in the first half of the 15th century, when his son Kaspar Schlick was ennobled by Emperor Sigismund for his diplomatic services and made baron (1422) and imperial count (1437). From 1433 he was Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and as such the first incumbent who was a layperson and of civil origin. Kaspar Schlick and his brothers are said to have appropriated the titulatures and possessions by forging documents.

Coat of arms of Count Schlick (coat of arms book around 1550/1574)

In addition to the counties of Passaun ( Bassano ) in northern Italy and Weißkirchen ( Holíč ) in what is now western Slovakia , the Schlik also included Falkenau an der Eger and Höfe bei Elbogen ( Loket ) and Eger. The family received the latter from Emperor Sigismund as compensation for the loss of Italian property. Later, Kunštát , Kopidlno , Welisch , Ploschkowitz , Wildenstein and others added.

The source of their wealth were the silver mines near St. Joachimsthal and the minting of coins ( Joachimstaler ). After the silver finds at the beginning of the 16th century, they had confiscated the royal coin rack with the consent of the Bohemian estates. King Ferdinand I was able to withdraw it from the Schlik in 1620 after the Battle of the White Mountains .

The extensive aristocratic family played an important role in the Bohemian corporate state in the first century of Habsburg rule. They held important positions in the estate administration or were officials of the Habsburg rulers. Many members of the family joined the Lutheran Reformation as early as 1520 , while others remained Catholic.

Important representatives of the family stood up for the rights of the estates vis-à-vis the ruler. They took an active part in the uprisings against the Habsburgs in 1547 and 1618-1620. After the battle of the White Mountain , the Protestant Schlik lost their property, which was confiscated by the emperor. One of the leaders of the Bohemian insurgents, Joachim Andreas von Schlick , was executed in 1621. The part of the family who had remained loyal to the Habsburgs received part of the farms of the Lords of Waldstein .

people

Kaspar Schlick (around 1396–1449), Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire (Schedelsche Weltchronik, 1493)

Possessions

The family had many possessions in Bohemia, so from 1434 to 1585, the rule Ostrov (Ostrov) with the mines (silver, tin, iron ore and lead) of Jáchymov and Henry Green , including New Rohlau , Salmthal , Schindlwald and Stolzenhain were further the rule Falkenau (with seat at Sokolov Castle ), Altenburg Castle (1634–1906) and Jičíněves Castle (1634–1948 and as a result of restitution since 1992).

The family also temporarily owned Freudenstein Castle (Jáchymov) , Hallerstein , Hauenstein Castle with Měděnec , Hohenfinow , Holíč (Weißenkirchen), Ivanovice na Hané , Kopidlno , Krajková , Kuttenplan , Lanz , Libořice , Loket Castle , Manětín , Oels , Pladen , plan , Ploskovice Castle , Rabštejn nad Střelou (Rabenstein), Rostok , Schöneck Castle (Vogtland) , Seeberg Castle , Srbeč , Veliš u Jičína , Wildstein Castle . In Vienna they resided in Palais Schlick in the 9th district of Vienna.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schlik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lud? K B? Ezina: The Governor of Niederlausitz between royal power and estates (1490 ?? 1620) A servant of two masters? BWV Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8305-3704-5 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2020]).
  2. ^ Alfred Pennrich: The forgery of documents of the Reich Chancellor Kaspar Schlick . BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8457-9026-8 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Prökl Vincent: Eger and Cheb region. Eger 1844, p. 317.