Troilo (noble family)

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The noble family Troilo (also Troylo or Troulo , Latin Troilus ) came from the county of Tyrol . In the last third of the 16th century, Johann Franz von Troilo moved his sphere of activity to Silesia in the principalities of Breslau and Neisse . As other nobles from the Habsburg Tyrol came to Silesia over the years, this could be due to the fact that both the Wroclaw Cathedral Chapter and the Bohemian rulers wanted to encourage the ruling class to return to the Catholic faith. The Breslau Curia pursued the goal of systematically recatholizing the ecclesiastical principality of Neisse and its landed gentry .

history

The Troyburg in Bozen's Silbergasse 16

The Troilo family originally came from Rovereto , which fell to Emperor Maximilian I after the end of Venetian rule in 1509 and then came under the influence of the County of Tyrol. On the right bank of the Adige , the Troilo between Trento and Rovereto is said to have belonged to the town of Ischia . The first "Troulo", who was ennobled in 1557, acquired citizenship in Bozen in 1563 , where a year later the family owned the "Troyburg" house in Silbergasse . In 1613 the Bolzano branch of the family was included in the Tyrolean registers, with which the rural estate was also connected. This branch of the family probably died out in the 17th century.

Before 1572 Johann Franz von Troilo emigrated to Silesia for unknown reasons. It could be that he joined the entourage of Emperor Rudolf II when he returned to the empire via Bolzano . In Silesia he lived and worked in Breslau , where he soon rose. In 1572 he married Katharina von Freund from Polish Weistritz in the Principality of Schweidnitz , whose family belonged to the Silesian landed gentry. Presumably in 1577, Emperor Rudolf II took Johann Franz and his family under his protection with a letter of grace when he received the homage of the Silesian princes and estates in Breslau . His ascent was promoted by both the emperor and the Breslau bishop Andreas von Jerin . In 1591 Johann Franz had acquired the rule of Lassoth , then Lest , also Löst , with the Jeutritz estate in the episcopal principality of Neisse . A year later, Bishop Jerin left the episcopal subjects in Lassoth to him and his eldest son Nikolaus. In 1594 Johann Franz built a mansion there . He then arranged for the medieval church to be rebuilt and refurbished. In 1596 a richly decorated pulpit , a patronage box and a bell followed. Johann Franz von Troilo and his descendants were among the most influential families in Wroclaw and the Principality of Neisse. He and his wife Katharina were buried in the Lassother church. The years of their death are not known.

Descendants of Johann Franz von Troilo ( incomplete )

  1. Helena von Troilo (1573–1631), married the Wroclaw patrician Christoph von Poley (1561–1637) at the age of 25 , who rose to the Wroclaw Council in 1612. In 1607 Helena donated a precious chalice with the alliance coat of arms of the Troilo and Poley families, as well as the inscription "Helena Polein geborne Troylin von Lest". The chalice later came to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.
  2. Catherine of Troilo (around 1575 – after 1619). In 1595 she married the widowed Johann Matthäus Wacker von Wackenfels in Neisse .
  3. Nikolaus von Troilo (1582–1640), imperial councilor , resident canon in Breslau , most important member of the Troilo family.
  4. Franz Gottfried von Troilo (* around 1583 – around 1648). He was enrolled at the Prague Clementinum in 1597 together with his brother Nikolaus . In 1605 he attended the universities of Siena and Padua one after the other . Emperor Matthias appointed him imperial council, in 1617 he was accepted into the Bohemian nobility. He was married to Ursula Juliane von Strachwitz . He gained fame as a collector and connoisseur of important manuscripts . The most valuable manuscript in his collection was the "Hedwigs Codex" from 1353, which Duke Ludwig I of Lüben had made in honor of his ancestor. Today the manuscript is in the J. Paul Getty Museum . With a legacy , he decided on the “Troylic Altar s” for the parish church in Rovereto. Joannis alda “a benefice for the local chaplaincy.
    1. Franz Ferdinand von Troilo (around 1635 – around 1648), Knight of the Holy Sepulcher , Palestine driver, wrote an oriental travel description.
  5. Franz Friedrich von Troilo , Lord of Lassoth, Nieder-Jeutritz and Steinsdorf in the Principality of Neisse. He is said to have belonged to the Silesian Chamber and left several descendants.

More family members

Possessions

  1. In Breslau: house on Neumarkt
  2. In the Principality of Neisse: Lassoth, Jeutritz and Jungferndorf .
  3. In the Principality of Neisse: Goods from Freund's related family: Steinsdorf , Markersdorf and Giersdorf

literature

  • Norbert Conrads : The Rise of the Troilo Family. On the cultural profile of the Catholic nobility in Silesia between late humanism and counter-reformation . In: Jörg Deventer, Susanne Rau , Anne Conrad (eds.): Turning of times - rule, self-assertion and integration between Reformation and liberalism , Festgabe for Arno Herzig , Lit-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, London, Zurich, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-6140-6 , pp. 279-310: ( online ) at books.google.de

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitized version of the Oriental travel description
  2. ↑ Years of life not known.
  3. ↑ Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality of Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , p. 307.
  4. ↑ Order Province of Bohemia
  5. ↑ Troilo's coat of arms cup with illustration
  6. ^ Rector of the University of Wroclaw and others
  7. ↑ Joseph Jungnitz : The Breslau Germanicists . Breslau 1906, GP Aderholz 'Buchh., Pp. 307 and 321.