Ulrich Khevenhüller
Knight Ulrich Khevenhüller (* around 1430 , † 1492 ) was the youngest son of Hans II. Khevenhüller, but at the time of the issue of the certificate that his grandfather Hans I had not yet completed the poor foundation by his brother Hans III. on May 10, 1439 still a boy and therefore does not appear in the documents of his brothers before 1456.
From the chronicle
It only comes to the fore when Hans III. has already died and Rudolf is lying seriously ill at Aichelberg Castle, as he informed Niklas von Liechtenstein , chief treasurer in Styria and marshal in Carinthia , in a letter of November 17, 1463 , and asks him, with his Liechtenstein fiefs , for which he had already received one year of fiefdom leave (after the death of his brother Hans III.), to want to enfeoff his brother Ulrich in his place and as the fiefdom holder of the children after his deceased brother Hans.
When Rudolf Khevenhüller had died, Niklas von Liechtenstein later, on December 23, 1466, granted the knight Ulrich Khevenhüller, who was unable to come to Murau in person to receive his fiefdom , fief leave for his Liechtenstein fiefdom . Ulrich is officially referred to as a knight here for the first time and is not only in 1467, as the Khevenhüller history of Count Franz Christoph claims, but by Emperor Friedrich III as early as 1466 . been knighted . Whether the news about his brothers are true is not clear from their documentary mentions, however, only with Ulrich! The fact that the Khevenhüller - Freiherrnbrief of October 16, 1566 claims that Maximilian I did this is not possible chronologically on the part of the emperor, who was born in 1459. If it goes on to say that Ulrich served Maximilian I honestly and honestly for many years in war and political matters, primarily against the Turkish hereditary enemy, so that he was entrusted with fortifications and border houses in the area of the later military border, then there is apparently one Confusion with the never-existent "Ulrich II., Rudolf's son", of whom Baron Georg von Khevenhüller also speaks in his Khevenhüller biography of 1583/84 and whose marriage to Anna von Kellerberg takes place in 1494. The Khevenhüller chronicle of 1625 then claims that Ulrich shared the captivity with Maximilian in Ghent , which should correctly be called Bruges , so that in 1488 he would have been one of Maximilian's followers in Flanders , even before the death of Frederick III. in 1493. However, Maximilian himself was only engaged against the Turks in Croatia in 1493 , especially since from 1480 to 1490 the main battle of the Habsburgs in the southeast was between King Matthias Corvinus and his Hungarians , and it is also reasonable to assume that Ulrich Khevenhüller had the time in 1492 Blessed, because Augustin, son of Hans III., who had been a seal since 1494 and who led the Khevenhüller family, had the year 1492 carved into his seal as the beginning of his Khevenhüller representative office.
On the other hand, knight Ulrich Khevenhüller, according to Khevenhüller history, on May 8, 1461 from Emperor Friedrich III. the reign of Falkenstein in Mölltal , which is also confirmed by the inscription on his picture from around 1550, but given it back a few years later when he took over all Khevenhüller fiefs after the death of his brother Rudolf (1466) and now in 1468 Georg Skodl as imperial keeper Falkenstein with the usual castle hat and the office of Obervellach got. From 1472 to 1488 Ulrich is often attested in Carinthian documents, mostly as a co-sealer in legal transactions in his circle of friends, and had his magnificent knight's seal affixed to a document dated November 28, 1473 in Bamberg . He managed to finally settle the dispute between the Bishop of Bamberg and his late brother Hans III. because of his idiosyncrasy, so that he was legally enfeoffed by Bishop Philipp on February 25, 1478 with the Bamberg Khevenhüller fiefs in the Villach area including the castle seat under Federaun Castle , and by Bishop Heinrich on May 25, 1488. Through his marriage (around 1470) to Anna von Kellerberg, the heiress to her father Kaspar von Kellerberg, he enlarged the Khevenhüller estate. In a document dated November 30, 1505, Anna is attested as his widow, as well as in one of December 27, 1510.
Description of the painting
In the picture, the knight Ulrich Khevenhüller is wearing a blackened armor with rich gold decoration, which, however, only corresponds to the middle of the 16th century. The arm tiles and the lower edge of the armor protecting the upper body are also equipped with red velvet lugs. The somewhat fantastic helmet bell has red ostrich feathers. The commander in his right hand is apparently supposed to emphasize his oversight of the border fortresses. Ms. Anna wears a white-ground gold brocade dress decorated with blue rosettes, which reveals a green insert above the deep round neckline framed by a gold border and the high-necked, pleated white shirt above it. The sleeves are puffed twice and have blue nubs on the tight spots. The petite woman wears a coral necklace around her neck and a gold chain with a pendant below. A multi-link gold chain is looped around the waist, the end of which, which the lady has grasped with her right hand, hangs down low and ends in a heart-shaped pendant. This chain is a typical hallmark of the Renaissance . In her left hand Mrs. Anna is holding her family coat of arms on a gold cord, the shield split by white and red with two golden flights in each half. A green, gold-bordered cap sits boldly on the blond hair, from which a tuft of red ostrich feathers with black peacock feathers grows teasingly. The picture is also valuable due to the oldest surviving depiction of Mörtenegg Castle, which Siegmund Khevenhüller built around 1546 on the Khevenhüller Meierhof in St. Martin west of Villach . On April 28, 1622, the noble seat of Mörtenegg was bought from Khevenhüller to Urban Freiherrn von Pötting. The building is still preserved today in a very similar form, as is the parish church of St. Martin, which peeks out between the upper arm and the left hand of the knight Ulrich. Part of the western city wall of the city of Villach can be seen with a small wall tower, the parish church of St. Jakob on the right edge of the picture and a town hall tower in the middle of the city silhouette.
The Burg Wernberg , the Church of Sternberg and part of the castle of the same name, the castles Aichelberg and Landskron dawn only dimly in the distance, but want but the scope khevenhüllerischen possession in space east indicate Villach, but half a century after the time Ulrich Khevenhiiller . The view is clearly taken from height 592 above St. Martin.
Among the pictures that Governor Christoph Khevenhüller had painted by the old Khevenhüllers around 1550, we also meet the knight Ulrich Khevenhüller, who was Falkenstein's imperial servant from May 8, 1461 to 1468. Like almost all Khevenhüller in this series, he is an old man with a white beard, dressed in a glittering armor , of which only the helmet is not shown. Even the feet are in spurred iron, gold-adorned pointed shoes. The coat of arms on his side indicates his wife Anna von Kellerberg, who incorrectly bears the first name Margarethe in the inscription.
literature
- Karl Dinklage: Carinthia around 1620 - The pictures from the Khevenhüller Chronicle , Edition Tusch, Vienna; ISBN 3-85063-066-8
See also
- Khevenhüller (noble family)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khevenhüller, Ulrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Khevenhüller, Ulrich Ritter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1430 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1492 |