Sebastian Vogelsberger

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Coat of arms over the portal of Maison Vogelsberger

Sebastian Vogelsberger (* around 1505 ; † February 7, 1548 in Augsburg ; executed) was a German-Alsatian mercenary leader .

Life

Little is known about its origin. From a non-aristocratic background, he rose to become a mercenary leader. From 1539 he had troops recruited several times for the French kings Franz I and Heinrich II . We are partly informed about his career as a mercenary leader through the correspondence with Wilhelm von Fürstenberg . In 1540 he built a stately home in Wissembourg (2 quai Anselmann), now called Maison Vogelsberger , and acquired civil rights there in 1542. After the Schmalkaldic War , Emperor Charles V wanted to make an example and had several mercenary leaders arrested. Sebastian Vogelsberger was captured by Lazarus von Schwendi in Weissenburg in 1548 and transferred to Augsburg . All of his property was confiscated. There he was sentenced to death together with the two captains Jakob Mannel and Wolf Thomas. Before his execution, Vogelsberger addressed the large audience and complained about the deceit with which his former friend Lazarus von Schwendi had arrested him. We are informed about the events of his execution through Bartholomäus Sastrow . He witnessed the sentencing and execution as an eyewitness and recorded it in his biography. Schwendi, badly accused by Vogelsberger, tried to justify himself with a font in the same year. The end of Sebastian Vogelsberger was celebrated in a song in the 16th century.

Works

  • Well founded responsibility and contradicting counter-report ... against the inconclusive report ... of Count Wilh. von Fürstenberg , Mainz 1539 digitized

literature

  • Wilhelm von Fürstenberg: Founded reply and incomparable counter-report by Graven Wilhelmen von Fürstenberg ... against the dishonest bird Sebastian Vogelsperger wrote lasterschrifft , Strasbourg 1540. Digitized
  • Lazarus von Schwendi: My Lazarus vonn Schwendis etc. Reliable and irrefutable report, what I, the niderwerffung and fengknuß, concerning weyland Sebastian Vogelsperger, acted and done , Augsburg 1548. Digitized
  • Johannes Sleidanus , Michael Beuther (translator): Johannes Sleidani Truthful and real description of spiritual and worldly matters. Frankfurt am Main 1581, pp. 266–267 Google digitized version
  • Bartholomäus Sastrow , Gottlieb Mohnike (editor): Bartholomäi Sastrowen Coming, birth and course of his whole life (1595-96). Cap. VIII. Sebastian Vogellsberg Historia, when and by whom he was captured, was taken to the courtroom and himself was beheaded. Volume 2, Greifswald 1824, pp. 166–176 digitized
  • Karl Goedeke ; Julius Tittmann: Songbook from the sixteenth century . 2nd edition, Leipzig 1881. pp. 309-312 in the Internet Archive
  • Brandi:  Vogelsberger, Sebastian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 158.
  • Fridolin Solleder: Colonel Bastian Vogelsberger, a victim of the politics of Emperor Charles V. In: Festschrift for Georg Leidinger , ed. by Albert Hartmann. Munich 1930, pp. 253-276.
  • JE Gerock: Un condottiere allemand au service de la France. Le colonel Sébastien Vogelsberger à Wissembourg . In: Revue d'Alsace (Strasbourg) 84 (1933), pp. 241-261, digitized from Gallica
  • Ines Grund: Honor - freedom - war. France and the German opposition to princes against Charles V , Regensburg 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Parent, Emmanuel Fritsch: Maison Vogelsberger. In: http://www2.culture.gouv.fr . September 5, 2013, accessed August 21, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ s. Sastrow
  3. ↑ s. from Schwendi
  4. ↑ s. Goedeke
personal data
SURNAME Vogelsberger, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogelsperger, Sébastien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Alsatian mercenary leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1505
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1548
Place of death augsburg