Ulrich von Weißpriach

Family coat of arms of those of Weißpriach

Ulrich von Weißpriach (* before 1437; † 1503 ) was an Austrian nobleman, originally from a family from Salzburg , who was Obersterblandhofmeister in Tyrol and from 1501 to 1503 governor in Carinthia .

origin

Ulrich von Weißpriach came from a family of the Lords von Weißpriach originally resident in Lungau , whose ancestral seat of the same name was in the municipality of Weißpriach im Lungau (today in the Austrian state of Salzburg ), where the family with Ulrich von Weißpriach first appeared in a document in 1327. He comes from the younger branch of his house, which had acquired property in Lower Austria. Ulrich was a grandnephew of Burkhard von Weißpriach (1420/23, † * 16 February 1466 in Salzburg ), the 1448 Canon to Salzburg and Apostolic prothonotary , and in 1452 provost was to Salzburg. From 1461 to 1466 he ruled as Prince- Archbishop of Salzburg and thanks to his good relations with Enea Silvio de 'Piccolomini - Pope Pius II (1458–1464) - in 1460 "in pectore" (not public) and in 1462 officially cardinal priest of Sancti Nereo ed Archille appointed. Because of his diplomatic activity - including mediation between King Friedrich III. and his brother, Duke Albrecht VI. of Austria - Archbishop Burkhard had great influence at the royal and imperial court.

Schwarzenbach (Lower Austria) - Castle ruins (01)

This benefited his nephew, Ulrich's father - Johann Siegmund von Weißpriach - who was archducal, then royal and finally imperial councilor, was promoted to chief steward and was appointed captain of Forchtenstein . At the same time he was able to acquire dominions in Lower Austria , including Hernstein (in the Baden near Vienna district) and Schwarzenbach .

Ulrich's mother was Barbara von Schweinpeck. She came from the Upper Austrian nobility family originally named by Schweinbach, with the headquarters of the same name near Gallneukirchen, and was a daughter of the knight Georg Schweinpeck auf Haus and Dorothea von Egkh. Ulrich's older brother, Andreas von Weißpriach (cl. 1490), settled in Tyrol and rose to the position of Obersterbland- Hofmeister there, but fell out of favor and lost his possessions and offices in 1490. Ulrich's sister, Regina von Weißpriach, was married to Paul von Radl auf Sichtenberg for the first time and to Johann von Pottenbrunn for the second time .

Life

Ulrich von Weißpriach was, like his father, in the service of his sovereign as an archducal, later royal and imperial councilor. He initially served under Friedrich III. , who ruled as Roman Emperor from 1452 to 1493 and then his son and successor, Maximilian I (1493–1519). Ulrich, who was a younger brother, was ultimately able to take over the ownership of his branch of the family because of the political commitment of his older brother Andreas von Weißpriach. This, because his older brother, Andreas von Weißpriach in the armed conflict between Emperor Friedrich III. and Matthias Corvinus who was King of Hungary from 1458 to 1490 and also King of Bohemia from 1469 to 1490, who joined the latter - like many of his peers - because King Matthias had conquered large parts of the Habsburg hereditary lands . Among other things, Andreas von Weißpriach was one of the generals who supported Mathias Corvinus on his campaign in the Austrian hereditary lands in 1482. After the death of the Hungarian king in 1490, however, he had to atone for this political decision, as he fell out of favor as an opponent of the House of Habsburg and therefore not only lost his father's property, but also the court post of Obersterbland court master .

Landsee castle ruins

However, this development benefited his younger brother Ulrich von Weißpriach, who always belonged to Emperor Friedrich III. had held, and therefore after the ostracism of his brother by Emperor Friedrich III. was enfeoffed with the paternal goods and with the office of Obersterbland-Hofmeister in Tyrol. He therefore had extensive possessions, as, according to the will of his son Johann von Weißpriach drawn up on April 15, 1570, he also owned the lordships of Landsee (in the Oberpullendorf district in Burgenland ), Kobersdorf (in the same district), Lunga and, since 1474, Stickelberg (castle ruins in the municipality of Hollenthon in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in Lower Austria ). To express his pious sentiments, he founded the Franciscan monastery in Katzelsdorf , which today belongs to the Redemptorist Order .

Ulrich also proved himself in the service of the Roman-German King and later Emperor Maximilian I and was appointed Governor of Carinthia on January 19, 1501 . A function that Ulrich exercised from 1501 to 1503. Although it is not known whether or when Ulrich von Weißpriach was raised to the baron status, it can be assumed that he belonged to the Austrian gentry due to the possession of extensive lords and in view of his function as governor of Carinthia.

Hochosterwitz Castle

As proof of his special grace, King Maximilian I transferred the castle and the rule of Hochosterwitz to him at the same time as the governorate with all benefits, pensions, validities, the district court “and other accessories”, for “unpaid care”, ie with full fruit enjoyment. This rulership, which had been in the possession of the von Osterwitz taverns for several centuries, had reverted to the sovereign as a settled fief after the dynasty died out, and who now transferred it to his deserved follower Ulrich von Weißpriach for use. After Ulrich's death, the custody of the castle and rule of Hochosterwitz came to Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, Bishop of Gurk (1505–1522), who still held it in 1509, but later held it as a pledge, as he had lent considerable amounts to the emperor, who was always in financial difficulties . However, this famous castle came back into the possession of Ulrich's descendants, as his daughter Siguna († 1537) was married to Augustin von Khevenhüller zu Aichelburg on Landskron, whose son Georg von Khevenhüller obtained a pledge in 1541 and a lien with Hochosterwitz in 1571. To this day, Hochosterwitz Castle is owned by Ulrich's descendants, namely that of the Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch. Ulrich von Weißpriach died as the incumbent governor of Carinthia in 1503.

Marriages and offspring

Ulrich von Weißpriach married Anna von Starhemberg , a daughter of Georg von Starhemberg auf Sprinzenstein , Tegernbach and Grieskirchen and Katharina Herrin zu Stubenberg from the Sitzendorf family in 1471 . The latter was a daughter of Otto Herr zu Stubenberg auf Sitzendorf and Mittergrabern and Anna Herrin von Pettau . Through this marriage Ulrich was related by marriage to some of the most respected nobility families in Austria. After the death of his wife, Ulrich von Weißpriach married Gertraud von Hohenwart, who died as a widow after 1511: she was the daughter of the knight Erhard von Hohenwart (from a Krainer nobility family) and Anna Dorner.

Ulrich only had children from his second marriage:

• Sofia, † after 1523, buried in Vienna, in St. Stephen's Cathedral , ⚭ (I) 1510 Johann Herr zu Stubenberg on Kapfenberg , † 1523, ⚭ (II) 1523 Dietrich von Hartitzsch on Aggsbach , Dürnstein and Emmersdorf, † 1540
• Florentina, ⚭ Christoph von Blumeneck
• Siguna, † 1537, ⚭ Augustin Khevenhüller zu Aichelberg auf Landskron, † Vienna 1519, buried at St. Dorothea. He acquired half of the Hardegg fortress from the middle line of the Weißpriach, namely from Christoph von Weißpriach († 1514) in 1501 and the other half of this rule from his brother David in 1507, which remained in the possession of the Khevenhüller family for centuries.
• Margarethe, † 1521, ⚭ Moritz von Rohrbach auf Sandelshausen, † 1531
• Barbara † 1542, Aja (educator) of the Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, ⚭ Franz Graf von Sankt Georgen a. Bösing on Thebes, † 1534 as the penultimate of his house.
• Margaretha, ⚭ 1523 Stefan Freiherr von Zinzendorf on Ober- and Niederhauseck, Perwarth, Karlstetten, Toppel, Hausenbach u. Wasserburg, royal chamberlain, hereditary land hunter in Austria under the Enns , † 1548.
• Potenziana, ⚭ 1526 Gregor von Lamberg on Nieder-Absdorf, Savenstein, Schneeberg and Willengrain, † 1565
• Gregor, Ritter cl. 1532, ⚭ Margaretha von Hartenberg
• Johann von Weißpriach Graf von Forchtenstein , Freiherr zu Gobelsdorf, on Guntersdorf , Hernstein , Karlstein an der Thaya , Neudorf, Schöngrabern , Toppel, Wullersdorf and Landsee, pledge holder of the lordship of Eisenstadt and Güns , lordship ordinator in Lower Austria, certified on April 15, 1570, ⚭ (I) Barbara Lónyay from Nagy.Lónya, ⚭ (II) Barbara Teufel from the house of Krottendorf, † as a widow in 1589.

literature

• J. Siebmacher's large book of arms, volume 26; The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria Part 2, S - Z, reprint edition of the arrangement by Johann Baptist Witting (Nuremberg 1918), Verlag Bauer und Raspe, owner Gerhard Geßner, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1983, p. 282 f.
• Johann Christian von Hellbach: “Adels-Lexikon” Volume 2, pp. 705/706;
• JS Verlag and JG Gruber: “General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order”.
• Franz Karl Wissgrill: Scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility 5th volume S 101,
• Bernhard Czervenka: “The Khevenhüller - history of the sex with special consideration of the XVII. Century according to archival sources ", Verlag Braumüller 1867,

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch Niederösterreich, Volume 2, p. 530, but it is missing in the article there about pork pork on p. 115 f.
2. ↑ Bernhard Czervenka: “The Khevenhüller - history of the sex with special consideration of the XVII. Century according to archival sources ”, Braumüller 1867, p. 65
3. ↑ JS Ed and JG Gruber: "General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order" ( online )
4. ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch Niederösterreich, Volume 2, p. 201
5. ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Lower Austria, o. Cit. P. 531