Thuringia III. from Hallwyl

Thuringia III. von Hallwyl in Diebold Schilling's Lucerne Chronicle (1513)

Thuringia III. von Hallwyl , also Türing (* 1427 , † 1469 in Thann ), sometimes also called Thuringia the Younger to distinguish it from his father of the same name , was a knight from the family of the Lords of Hallwyl .

biography

Thuringia III., Who came from an Alsatian line of the old Aargau noble family, was the only child of Thuringia II. Von Hallwyl (* around 1380/91; † 1460/61), who had been field captain of the Habsburgs from 1443 in the Old Zurich War (1439– 1446) was known, and Margaretha von Masmünster ( Munster ) (* around 1390; † 1427). Through his grandmother Katharina von Wolfurt (* around 1360, † around 1413) and his mother, he owned some property in Alsace. There he owned in Thann im Sundgau and with the lordship of Landser im Harthwald (from 1454) in the Old Habsburg area of ​​Pfänder and also after the federal conquest of Aargau in 1415 shares in the family property there, which, however, until 1437 through his father Thuringia II Berner Aargau was sold. He was married to Dorothea von Ratsamhausen zum Stein (* 1447–1462, † 1467); the marriage remained childless.

Thuringia III. followed a career similar to that of his father. In 1444 he was knighted at the age of 17 and made a name for himself in the same year during the Old Zurich War (1439–1446) in the raids of Hans von Rechberg against the 7 Alte Orte . In 1445 he and his father and a number of other aristocrats were permanently excluded from the right of residence in the city by the city of Basel due to their hostile attitude towards the Swiss. In 1447 he became councilor of Württemberg, in 1448 he and his father sold the Blumenegg estate to the Reichenau and St. Blasien abbeys . From 1448 to 1464, like his father before, he held the post of land and hereditary marshal in the Austrian foothills , an office that the Lords of Hallwyl had exercised since 1300 and was associated with some prestige.

1449 to 1450 he was by Duke Albrecht VI. von Austria (1418–1463), who also appointed him as governor of Ensisheim in 1450 , sent as captain to Freiburg im Üechtland to counter the growing influence of the city ​​of Bern and the Duchy of Savoy on the city due to the recently lost Freiburg War and the local one To maintain domination. There he headed a newly formed council, which was then replaced by the old council due to the influence of Bern. Due to the increasing opposition to the Habsburg population of Freiburg, he left the city with the occupying troops, apparently not without enriching himself at the expense of the citizens he had deceived when leaving. In 1452, against the will of Bern, Freiburg became the patron of Savoy.

Between 1455 and 1458 Thuringia was under Duke Albrecht VI. supreme captain in the foothills. In 1458 he was a member of the council of the Bishop of Strasbourg , Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern, and from that year was in the service of Duke Sigmund of Austria-Tyrol (1427-1496), through whom he again held the post of supreme captain between 1461 and 1463 dressed in the foothills.

In autumn 1460 he defended as commander in agreement with the city of Winterthur them successfully against the Confederates, when he was already in August this year, along with Duke Sigmund of Pope Pius II. With the excommunication was occupied. The city was able to hold its own during the two-month siege, then in 1467 it was finally pledged to the city of Zurich due to the notorious financial shortage of the Habsburgs. Thuringia remained in the service of Duke Sigmund and was bailiff in the county of Hohenberg in 1462 and between 1464 and 1468 he was bailiff in Alsace , Sundgau , Breisgau and the Black Forest . When the feud against Mulhouse broke out and the subsequent Waldshut War in 1468, he played an important role because of his office as a Habsburg servant.

Thuringia III. died in Thann in 1469 without direct descendants, so that the Thuringian branch of the family, which always avoided close ties to Bern and the Swiss Confederation, ended with him. The Hallwylers only came closer to the Confederation with the pledge of the Habsburg foothills to the Duchy of Burgundy in the Treaty of St. Omer on May 9, 1469 and through the castle rights treaty of Walter VII (* before 1450; † 1513) with Bern and Solothurn 1470.

genealogy

ancestors

John I of Hallwyl (* before 1302; † 1348)

Thuringia I. von Hallwyl (* around 1346; † 1386)

Verena von Kilchen (* before 1311; † 1344)

Thuringia II of Hallwyl (* around 1380/91; † 1460/61)

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Katharina von Wolfurt (* around 1360/1381; † around 1413)

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Thuringia III. von Hallwyl (* 1427; † 1469)

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Margaretha von Masmünster (* around 1390; † 1427)

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernese families: Thuringia III. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Bernese families: Thuringia II. Accessed on September 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Johann Sporschil: The Swiss Chronicle: From the Foundation of the Rütli Federation to the Eternal Peace with France (1840)
4. ↑ Bruno Meier: A Royal Family from Switzerland (2008)