Parakeet from Zedtwitz

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Parakeet von Zedtwitz († 1491/1492) was a knight's henchman of the Wettins and formed a larger area of ​​dominion around what is now Bad Brambach and Schönberg am Kapellenberg . In 1483 he was the Brandenburg bailiff in Selb , and in 1485 he witnessed the division of Leipzig .

Bad Bramstedt has long been in the hands of Vogtland family of bag and went recently owned by the family of pigeons home to the family of Zedtwitz over. The sons of the buyer Erhart von Zedtwitz had to sell the property again due to their activities as robber barons. However, it remained within the extensive family of von Zedtwitz and in 1468 passed to Parakeet von Zedtwitz, who is said to come from Töpen , but possibly also from the Liebenstein line . He thus becomes a follower of Elector Ernst , Duke Albrecht and Landgrave Wilhelm . His wife's name was Anna, she is considered to be born von Sack , which indicates connections to the previous owners. 1474 acquired parakeet from the family of Metzsch Schoenberg with Castle , Vorwerk and Hohendorf . Especially up to 1479 he made further extensive acquisitions, including in 1475 the Vorwerk Untermarxgrün and in 1477 parts of Mühlhausen , whose previous owners were the Voigtsberg bailiff Hermann von Weißenbach and before that Eberhart von Uttenhofen . In 1479 he acquired goods, interest and courts from the care Voigtsberg, which previously belonged to the bailiff, which increased his influence in Mühlhausen, Arnsgrün and the deserted Schönlind . The villages of Triebel and Eichigt since 1438 also belonged to the domain . Border disputes with the city of Eger , for example over the village of Rohrbach , originally part of the Schönbacher Ländchen , or over the desert of Voitersreuth , were decided in his favor. In 1481 he was captain of a Wettin contingent against the Turks, which took action against the Hungarians in 1482 after King Matthias Corvinus invaded Lower Austria . In 1483, Parakeet released the Selb office, which had been pledged to Kunz von Lüchau , and became an official of Margrave Albrecht Achilles . He was a member of the Swan Order . In 1485 he is among the witnesses to the division of Leipzig . In 1485 he took part in a tournament in Bamberg and in 1486 in a tournament of the bear society in Ansbach . In 1492 his sons Jobst and Casper founded an early measurement office in Brambach, so that the parakeet must have died in 1491 or 1492. His wife Anna, who had received several acquisitions as personal belongings , married Friedrich von Reitzenstein , whose family then remained in the possession of Schönberg for several centuries.

literature

  • Erhard Adler: Parakeet von Zedtwitz - All time Mehrer Brambachs . In: Unterm Kapellenberg - local script in Bad Brambach and the surrounding area . Issue 9. Bad Brambach 2003. pp. 2-4.
  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the praiseworthy knights in Voigtlande… Kulmbach 1752. Plate CCII.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Thieme: Duke Albrecht the courageous (1443–1500): a Saxon prince in the empire and in Europe . Weimar 2002. p. 92.
  2. ↑ Margrave Albrecht's document on the parakeet von Zedtwitz permitted the replacement of the office of Selb, which Konrad von Lüchau had previously owned by pledge. Issued in Ansbach, on the Monday after Sunday Quasimodogeniti 1483 (copy, authenticated by Spieß in 1788), Bamberg State Archives, Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Plassenburg Secret House Archives No. 342, old signature: C 17 IV No. 195.
personal data
SURNAME Zedtwitz, parakeet from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zedwitz, parakeet from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wettin knight, bailiff of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1491 or 1492