Ulrich von Hardegg

Ulrich zu Hardegg (also Ulrich von Hardeck ; Ulrich zu Hardegg on Glatz and in Machlande ; * after 1483 ; † 1535 ) was the younger son of Count Heinrich zu Hardegg (before Prueschenk, Freiherr zu Stettenberg; * 1460 † 1513) Family line of the Prüschenk of the Counts of Hardegg . From 1501 to 1524 he was pledge master of the Bohemian county of Glatz . In 1503 he and his family were given the title of Count von Glatz .

Origin and family

Ulrich's father, Count Heinrich von Hardegg (previously Prueschenk, Freiherr zu Stettenberg ; † 1513) was in imperial service and was temporarily imperial governor in Italy. From 1495 he held the title of Count of Hardegg, and in 1499 he was raised to the rank of imperial count as Count of Hardegg and in the Machlande . Ulrich's mother was Elisabeth (* 1466), a daughter of the Bohemian nobleman and governor of Silesia, Johann II von Rosenberg . Ulrich had the brothers Julius I († 1557) and Johann († 1533).

1515 Ulrich married with Sidonie / Zdeňka, a subsidiary of Münster Berger Duke Heinrich d. Ä. and granddaughter of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady .

Life

In 1501 Ulrich von Hardegg acquired the County of Glatz, which at that time directly belonged to Bohemia, from his later brothers-in-law Albrecht I , Georg I and Karl I for 70,000 Rhenish guilders . The Kłodzko Land had only been raised to a county by the Bohemian King George of Podebrady in 1459 and was intended to serve as a domain for his descendants. His son Heinrich d. Ä. was the first Count von Glatz to reside at the castle there, but when he died in 1498 he left his three sons in high debts, which is why they were forced to sell the county to Ulrich von Hardegg.

The purchase contract was approved by the knights Hans von Pannwitz , Melchior von Donig , Georg von Bischofsheim and Heinrich von Kauffung , while the Glatzer estates and free judges paid homage to Ulrich von Hardegg personally. In addition, the consent of Heinrich's widow was Ä. Ursula von Brandenburg , which the county had received as a morning gift on the occasion of their marriage . After the conclusion of the contract, Ulrich von Hardegg confirmed the previous privileges of the Glatzer nobility and the royal cities. Ulrich subsequently resided in Glatz, where he donated a baptismal font for the parish church that bore his coat of arms.

In 1507, the future Emperor Maximilian I granted Ulrich von Hardegg the right to mint in his capacity as the Bohemian sovereign . The coins minted in his Glatzer coin were allowed to contain the coat of arms of the Hardegg family in addition to the coat of arms of the county. During his reign, a general assembly of the Crown of Bohemia was held in Glatz in 1512 , at which, among other things, the fight against robber barons was decided.

In 1524 Ulrich von Hardegg, who also had the Bergregal , issued a new mountain order for his country . In the same year, on December 29th, he sold the county to his brother Johann von Hardegg. This resided mainly on the Heinrichsburg in the lower Mühlviertel .

literature

• Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer Land . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006, ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 59–62 and 96 (as Hardeck ).
• Franz von Krones:  Brüschenk, Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 455 f.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Podiebrad (Adelsgeschlecht) #Genealogie the Silesian line of the Dukes of Miinsterberg (progeny George of Podiebrad)
3. ↑ [2]