Ulrich V. (Pfannberg)

Ulrich V. von Pfannberg (* 1287 ; † 23 October 1354 ) was Count von Pfannberg , from 1322 to 1337 Vogt of Obernburg , from 1330 Marshal of the Duchy of Austria and from 1335 Captain in Carinthia.

Live and act

He was the son of Count Ulrich IV and Margarete von Heunburg .

While his father had completely run down the wealth and reputation of his sex, Ulrich V tried to find a new style:

" ... in spirit, energy, bravery, participation in public affairs, striving for fame, honor and power and even for wealth, to work as the means of great things he resembled his grandfather Heinrich , whom he was in statesmanlike wisdom and moderation, as well as by always being the same loyalty to his sovereign princes. With these virtues he not only saved his family from the threat of degeneration, but raised them to a height of splendor, power and honor that even under Heinrich did not have. "( K. Tangl )

While still on the battlefield of Gammelsdorf (1313), Count Ulrich was knighted and betrothed to Agnes, a sister of Ulrich I von Walsee († 1329); the marriage took place in 1314.

From 1315 to 1323 Count Ulrich was captain of the Bamberg possessions in Carinthia - including Reichenfels , St. Leonhard , Wolfsberg , Griffen , Wernberg , Villach , Federaun , Arnoldstein , Tarvis and Pontafel - and Burgvogt von Griffen .

In 1316 Count Ulrich fought for his Austrian dukes Friedrich and Leopold in the battle of Esslingen and was distinguished by his bravery.

In 1320 (according to Johann von Viktring 1314) Count Ulrich and Ulrich II. Von Walsee got into trouble in front of Padua in the fight against the Veronese, but were freed by Ulrich I. von Walsee.

In 1322 the male line of Heunburg died out with Count Hermann, a brother of Ulrich's mother, and Count Ulrich followed his uncle as Vogt of Oberburg . As an inheritance Ulrich received the lordships of Heunburg, Mannsberg , Bleiburg , Trixen (these with restrictions, since Hermann's widow Elisabeth still asserted rights) and half the share in Cilli ; Friedrich von Sanneck inherited the lion's share .

In 1330 Count Ulrich was a member of an Augsburg court of arbitration that determined the attack from Carinthia to the Austrian dukes, and was honored with the Marshal's Office in Austria in the same year.

In 1331 Count Ulrich redeemed a number of pledges and thus came back into their possession: the forts Kaisersberg, Mildenberg, Murnau, court and tolls in Bruck, courts in Leoben and Kindberg and others. The year before, he had redeemed the Peilenstein Fortress. A year later, the Duke pledged the Pfannberg estate to Count Ulrich (it had been lost under his father Ulrich IV ).

In 1333 Count Ulrich was the head of an arbitration board that decided the dispute between Abbot Heinrich von St. Paul on the one hand and Ulrich II and Friedrich von Walsee and Count Heinrich von Hohenlohe on the other hand because of the court on the Remschnigg in favor of St. Paul.

In 1335, after the death of Heinrich von Kärnten, Duke Otto was appointed Duke of Carinthia and installed Count Ulrich instead of Konrad von Auffenstein as captain of Carinthia. In the same year he will have sold his half of Cilli to Friedrich von Sanneck.

Count Ulrich was among others from 1342 Rudolf the Founder's teacher .

In 1342 there was a conflict with Patriarch Bertrand , who refused to enfeoff Duke Albrecht II with Venzone . As the commander of the Austrian armed forces, Count Ulrich ensured a favorable comparison and was subsequently enfeoffed with the castle, town and district of Windischgraz , which he transferred to his brother-in-law Heinrich von Montpreis in 1351.

After Patriarch Bertrand's death, the newly elected Patriarch Nikolaus confirmed to Duke Albrecht II those fiefs that the earlier Carinthian dukes had owned, but which Patriarch Bertrand had refused: the city and district of Venzone, the forts of Oberwippach and St. Michaelsberg and the fortress of Clausen twelve years.

In 1354 there was between Count Ulrich and Ulrich III. von Walsee a dispute over the jurisdiction of the Weißeneck rule , which was neighboring the Heunburg rule . Weißeneck retained the regional jurisdiction, the blood spell over Weißeneck was awarded to Heunburg.

Last but not least, Count Ulrich was able to marry his son Johann in 1354 to Countess Margarete, daughter of the late Count Rudolf von Schaunberg .

Ulrich V. von Pfannberg is praised by Peter suchtwirt as homo perfectus , as a perfect man, who united all essential virtues: wisdom, justice, generosity, moderation and fortitude.

family

Ulrich was first married to Agnes von Walsee († 1329), the daughter of Ulrich I and Diemud von Rohrau, and the second (before 1331) to Margareta von Werdenberg , daughter of Count Hugo II and Eufemia von Ortenburg .

The three children probably come from the second marriage:

• Johann (* 1321, † November 1362), last Pfannberger in the male line ⚭ 1354 Margarethe († after 1380), daughter of Count Rudolf von Schaunberg (⚭ II. 1373, Count Wilhelm III. Von Montfort († around 1379))
• Katharina († after 1375) ⚭ 1347 Count Meinhard VI. from Gorizia
• Margarete († after 1374) ⚭ around 1347 Count Friedrich von Ortenburg

literature

• Karlmann Tangl: The Counts of Pfannberg II. In AÖG 18, 1857