Vojtěch von Pernstein (1532–1561)

Vojtěch von Pernstein (German Adalbert von Pernstein ; * October 7, 1532 , † July 17, 1561 ) was a Moravian-Bohemian nobleman and chief chamberlain of the Brno regional court. He came from the noble family of the Lords of Pernstein .

Life

Vojtěch / Adalbert's parents were the Moravian governor and Count von Glatz , Johann von Pernstein and his second wife Hedwig von Schellenberg ( Hedvika z Schelmberka ). He still had the older brothers Jaroslav and Vratislav . He got his first name after his uncle Vojtěch / Adalbert .

At the age of thirteen, Vojtěch / Adalbert was given by his father to the Viennese imperial court, where he and Wilhelm von Leipa were to learn the German language and court ceremonies and to get to know court life. Since his father intended him for a courtly or sovereign career, he stayed at the Prague court of Archduke Ferdinand from April 1548 , who was the royal governor of his father Ferdinand I in Bohemia .

After their father's death in September 1548, Vojtěch and his two brothers inherited his property, which they initially managed together. Although their father had been in debt for a long time, they belonged to the wealthiest magnates in Bohemia and Moravia at the time with their inherited property. They were able to repay the debts they left behind from the sale of the County of Glatz , whose pledge was raised by the Bohemian sovereign Ferdinand I in 1549. Despite this, Vojtěch's brothers decided to continue serving in court. Presumably because of this, they both converted to Catholicism soon, while the younger Vojtěch / Adalbert did not convert. He gave up the planned political or diplomatic career and returned to Pardubitz , where he was to take care of asset management at the request of his brothers.

Since Vojtěch and his brothers did not have the necessary experience and knowledge to economically manage their inherited lands due to their young age, they entrusted this task to the knight Peter Hamza von Zábědovice, who also ruled their land in 1550. The property remained undivided until 1552. In 1552, however, Adalbert / Vojtěch demanded the surrender of his inheritance and received about a third of the Moravian possessions with Plumlov , Tobitschau , Křižanov and Proßnitz as well as Ingrowitz from the Pernstein domain. The other lands continued to be administered as a whole by the two older brothers. When the division took place in 1555, the eldest brother Jaroslav received the Bohemian possessions with the dominions of Pardubitz and Pottenstein and the second-born Vratislav received the remaining two thirds in Moravia with the center of Seelowitz .

In 1555 Vojtěch / Adalbert married Katharina / Kateřina, who, unlike the wives of his brothers, came from the local noble family of Kostka von Postupitz . Like her father Bohuš, she supported the Bohemian Brothers , while Vojtěch continued to stand firmly on the side of the Kalixtines and was accordingly theologically active.

In 1556 Vojtěch exchanged some lands with his brother Vratislav. For the reign of Pernstein, he handed over to Vratislav Křižanov and Tobitschau with Prerau . Just five years later, Vojtěch died at the age of only 29. Since his eldest brother Jaroslav had already preceded him in death a year earlier, the now heavily indebted brother Vratislav became heir to Vojtěch's estates due to a mutual inheritance agreement. As a result, Vratislav came in turn to the rule of Pernstein as well as Plumlov and Proßnitz, where he moved his residence. Vojtěch's only five-year-old daughter Hedwig / Hedvika received cash compensation.

literature

• Petr Vorel: Páni z Pernštejna. Vzestup a pád rodu zubří hlavy v dějinách Čech a Moravy . Praha 1999, ISBN 80-86182-24-X , pp. 186-189, 199-201, 204f., 210-213 and 246.

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