Ulrich II of chapels
Ulrich II von Kapellen , the Tall One (* 1250 ; † 1301 ) was a district judge on the Enns .
Life
Ulrich II came from an originally Styrian family and was confidante of King Rudolf I of Habsburg .
In October 1276 Rudolf zu Enns commissioned him to contact all nobles, servants and corporations, and to win them over with gifts and promises for the cause of the new king and against Ottokar II. Přemysl , who was sovereign as King of Bohemia at that time present-day Upper and Lower Austria , but should be ousted again after the imperial ban of 1275.
Ulrich received Mitterberg Castle as a princely fief and the Machland district court as early as 1277 .
In August 1278 Ulrich led the royal reserves and rearguard for King Rudolf in the battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut. With Konrad von Summerau and Popo von Reichenstein he succeeded in bringing about the decisive turning point. King Rudolf thanked him later with lands, pledges and the granting of rights and freedoms. In 1279 he became a captain on the Enns . In 1281, the king pledged Ulrich's district court in Machland.
Ulrich also maintained excellent relationships with Albrecht I , the son of King Rudolf, who had been appointed by the king as a feudal man as Duke of Austria . As a confidante and advisor, he carried out delicate diplomatic assignments for Albrecht and was appointed district judge ob der Enns . For his rule in Steyregg he was also granted lower regional jurisdiction and also secular immunity .
Ulrich II was buried in the Gumpendorfer parish church near Vienna.
Possessions
In 1280 Ulrich II bought the village and castle of Steyregg as well as "everything that is within a radius of 2 miles", the old fiefdom of the Passau monastery from the brothers Luitold and Heinrich von Kuenring . He subsequently also acquired Ruttenstein , Prandegg , Münzbach and St. Thomas am Blasenstein .
Outside Upper Austria, Ulrich acquired the wineries near Drosendorf , Spitz and Krems in 1293 , as well as the Gumpendorf rulership, including the castle and numerous vineyards (today the 6th district of Vienna).
In 1295 Ulrich bought all their property north of the Danube near Steyregg from the brothers Gundacker and Ulrich von Losenstein . In 1295 he also acquired the Reichenstein dominion in the Mühlviertel as well as goods around Marchtrenk , Wels , Steyr and the parishes of Wolfern and Garsten .
family
Ulrich II descends from three marriages:
- ∞ I) 1276 Gertraud von Lonsdorf
- ∞ II) 1281 Elisabeth von Zelking
- Leutgard ∞ Otto II. (Von Zelking)
- ∞ III) Margarete von Falkenstein
- Elisabeth (1291–1334), ∞ Otto I. von Zelking
- Hans / Jans († 1354), ∞ Kunigunde von Walsee
literature
- Leopold Josef Mayböck , Alfred Höllhuber : The market sword mountain and the castle Windegg. Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. Schwertberg 1987, pp. 156-158.
- Peter Grassnigg: 700 years of the market - 500 years of the city of Steyregg . City of Steyregg. Steyregg, 1982. pp. 25-29.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Leopold Josef Mayböck : Eberhard I. von Capellen and his time 1330-1386. In: Windegger events. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. 2007, p. 3 (entire article p. 1–17, online (PDF; 4.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
- ↑ Jodocus Stülz : On the genealogy of the family of the Lords of Capellen. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 6th year, Linz 1842, p. 99 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- ↑ Stülz 1842, p. 101.
- ^ Kurt Holter : History of Schlierbach to 1355. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 116a, Linz 1971, p. 217 (family tree), entire article p. 213–248, PDF (2.8 MB) on ZOBODAT .
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SURNAME | Ulrich II of chapels |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Captain and chief judge in Austria on the Enns |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1250 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1301 |