Siegfried von Kollonitsch

Siegfried von Kollonitsch (born September 22, 1572 in Eisenstadt , Kingdom of Hungary , † February 12, 1624 in Lewenz , ibid.) Was an imperial field marshal and promoter of the Evangelicals in Hungary.

Siegfried von Kollonitsch in 1607

Life

Siegfried (Seyfried) Ferdinand von Kollonitsch came from the noble family of the Kollonitz von Kollograd . He was the eldest son of ten children of Baron Georg von Kollonitsch (* 1537, † 1599) and his wife Maria Helena von Fuchs zu Fuchsberg (* 1539, † 1603). Emperor Maximilian II was his godfather . During the 15-year war with the Turks , in which he himself participated since 1593, Siegfried settled permanently in Hungary. In 1598 he received the Hungarian indigenous and homeland rights.

Siegfried Kollonitsch was one of the most famous generals of his time. He offered bitter resistance to Prince Gabriel Báthory in battle. In 1601 Siegfried was appointed cavalry colonel by Emperor Rudolf II . In 1604, after the abdication of Georg Thurzo, he was appointed general and became commander-in-chief of the Cisdanubian armed forces and commander of the Neuhäusel fortress . In this capacity he fought on the side of the imperial against Stephan Bocskay . Even after the Peace of Vienna , he retained his position. At the same time he was the commanding general in the Hungarian mining towns . Emperor Ferdinand II appointed him field marshal . He was one of the signatories of the Zsitvatorok Peace .

On December 24, 1610, Siegfried Kollonitsch was voted out of office because he criticized the peace agreements with the Turks . He therefore urged the Beg of Gran Kara Ali Bey for George's out in 1613 to a duel. Since Siegfried did not keep to the peace agreements set out in the Peace of Vienna and broke the peace with the Turks, he was tried in a Viennese court martial in 1614 and imprisoned for a year. In 1616 he came into conflict with the state because of a dispute over his property ( Thebes , Lewenz) , which led to renewed incarceration. His property was confiscated. On September 8, 1621 he was released from custody; In 1622 he was rehabilitated and got all his goods back.

It is astonishing that Siegfried Kollonitsch, the offspring of a Catholic noble family that produced two archbishops , was a staunch and enthusiastic Protestant magnate and supporter of Martin Luther's Reformation . He was a staunch Lutheran and kept his own Lutheran court clergy. He also actively supported the Protestants in founding their churches. He was also significantly involved in founding the German Evangelical Church Community AB zu Preßburg .

Siegfried Kollonitsch was married twice. However, both marriages remained childless. His first marriage was with Sophia Perényi (* July 18, 1574, † February 12, 1606). Through this marriage he got access to the circles of the Hungarian nobility. His second marriage was with Baroness Anna Maria Freiin von Sauran († ~ 1624). Siegfried Kollonitsch died on February 12, 1624 at Lewenz Castle . His remains were buried in a coffin, but the coffin stood unburied in the great hall of Lewenz Castle for 14 years. However, they were not buried in secret in the crypt of the town church of Lewenz until 1638 on the instructions of the court chamberlain Jakob Johann Stella.

literature

CE Schmidt , S. Markusovßky, G. Ebner: History of the evangelical church community AB zu Preßburg. 2 volumes, Pozsony 1906, pp. 87ff.
Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon. Budapest 1981, Volume 1, p. 953, ISBN 963-05-2498-8 (Hungarian)

Web links

Constantin von Wurzbach : Kollonitz, Siegfried (II.) (Seyfried) Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 363 ( digitized version ).
German biography

Individual evidence

↑ The Indigenat which meant excluding the acquisition of citizenship to non-resident nobles , their inclusion in the local nobility and their right to acquire an estate in the new home .
↑ Cisdanubien ( 'land on this side of the Danube ") was a region, large parts of Upper Hungary and parts of the Great Hungarian Plain enclosed. A total of 13 counties belonged to this region.
↑ The peace of Zsitvatorok was concluded on November 11, 1606 between Emperor Rudolf II and Sultan Ahmed I (* 1590, † 1617). From the imperial side, the signatories were Georg Thurzo, Ferenc Batthyány , Kristoph Erdödy and Siegfried Kollonitsch.
^ Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch and Cardinal Siegismund Graf von Kollonitz
↑ In a letter dated July 16, 1606, the Preßburg magistrate asked Siegfried Kollonitsch to support the intention of the city of Preßburg to make Protestant church services at home in the city by giving his Ratzersdorf court preacher, Andreas Reuss of the city of Preßburg, support may leave. The consenting answer came on August 7th. He also promised that as a member of the higher classes in the sessions of the future state parliament he would endeavor to get the Pressburg one of the city churches for their church services. (Quoted from the history of the evangelical church community ..., p. 88f; see literature)
↑ Sophia Perényi was the daughter of the chief chaplain of Ugocsa István Perényi County (* June 1550, † March 8, 1575) and his wife Anna Dobó de Ruszka (* ~ 1550). The first marriage she concluded with György Székely and the second with János Forgách de Ghymes (* 1573, † 1601).

↑ In 1624, at the behest of Archbishop Péter Pázmány, the Protestant church in Lewenz was expropriated from the Lutherans and handed over to the Jesuits . It was the age of the Counter Reformation in Hungary. This was probably the reason why the staunch Lutheran Siegfried Kollonitsch was not allowed to be buried. Religious freedom in Hungary was only granted to Lutherans again in 1645 after the Peace of Linz .

personal data
SURNAME	Kollonitsch, Siegfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	imperial field marshal and patron of the Evangelicals in Hungary
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenstadt , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1624
Place of death	Lewenz , Kingdom of Hungary

[1] The Indigenat which meant excluding the acquisition of citizenship to non-resident nobles , their inclusion in the local nobility and their right to acquire an estate in the new home .

[2] Cisdanubien ( 'land on this side of the Danube ") was a region, large parts of Upper Hungary and parts of the Great Hungarian Plain enclosed. A total of 13 counties belonged to this region.

[3] The peace of Zsitvatorok was concluded on November 11, 1606 between Emperor Rudolf II and Sultan Ahmed I (* 1590, † 1617). From the imperial side, the signatories were Georg Thurzo, Ferenc Batthyány , Kristoph Erdödy and Siegfried Kollonitsch.

[4] Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch and Cardinal Siegismund Graf von Kollonitz

[5] In a letter dated July 16, 1606, the Preßburg magistrate asked Siegfried Kollonitsch to support the intention of the city of Preßburg to make Protestant church services at home in the city by giving his Ratzersdorf court preacher, Andreas Reuss of the city of Preßburg, support may leave. The consenting answer came on August 7th. He also promised that as a member of the higher classes in the sessions of the future state parliament he would endeavor to get the Pressburg one of the city churches for their church services. (Quoted from the history of the evangelical church community ..., p. 88f; see literature)

[6] Sophia Perényi was the daughter of the chief chaplain of Ugocsa István Perényi County (* June 1550, † March 8, 1575) and his wife Anna Dobó de Ruszka (* ~ 1550). The first marriage she concluded with György Székely and the second with János Forgách de Ghymes (* 1573, † 1601).

[7] In 1624, at the behest of Archbishop Péter Pázmány, the Protestant church in Lewenz was expropriated from the Lutherans and handed over to the Jesuits . It was the age of the Counter Reformation in Hungary. This was probably the reason why the staunch Lutheran Siegfried Kollonitsch was not allowed to be buried. Religious freedom in Hungary was only granted to Lutherans again in 1645 after the Peace of Linz .