Wilhelm I of Pernstein

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Wilhelm I. von Pernstein (also Wilhelm I. von Bernstein ; Czech Vilém I. z Pernštejna ; * around 1360 ; † 1422/1426 ) was a Moravian nobleman. As a confidante of Margrave Jobst, he held several state offices, including governor of Moravia . For the year 1398 he is also documented as Burgrave of Znojmo .

Life

Wilhelm I von Pernstein came from the Moravian noble family Pernstein , whose ancestors called themselves "von Mödlau" or "z Medlova", after the town of Medlov south of Brno , until the second half of the 14th century .

Wilhelm is documented for the first time for the year 1381, when he was of legal age. It is very likely that he was the youngest son of Emmeram / Jimram V. von Medlov or von Pernstein, who is recorded for the years 1358-1383. In 1383 Wilhelm and his brothers Bohuš, Emmeram / Jimram and Smil undertook to support the Margrave Jobst of Moravia politically and militarily. Before 1385 Wilhelm married Agnes von Pottenstein ( Anežka z Potštejna ), a widow after an Adalbert / Albert whose origin is unknown. He probably settled with her first at the fortress in Dalečín and later at the Pernstein Castle . He probably came to this through a mutual inheritance contract, which he concluded with his relatives in 1390. The contract also shows that Wilhelm's brothers were no longer alive in 1390.

In the 1380s and 1390s Wilhelm was an assessor at the Brno Regional Court. For the years 1397 to 1398 he is recorded as governor of Moravia and for the year 1398 also as burgrave of Znojmo . Since the Znojmo fort due to its border location had a special strategic importance for the margraviate, it can be assumed that Wilhelm enjoyed a special trust of the margrave Jobst, which enabled him to expand his property. In 1398 his distant relatives Atluš and Žibřid von Pernstein transferred the rule of Jakubov to him by agreement . Even after the death of Margrave Prokop in 1405, Wilhelm was still in the diplomatic service of Margrave Jobst. In 1406/07 he took part in the peace negotiations with the Austrian regent Leopold IV and in 1408 and 1409 he held the office of Chamberlain at the Brno court.

In 1414 Wilhelm led armed conflicts with the city of Iglau , the causes of which are not precisely known. In 1415 he stood with numerous other Moravian and Bohemian nobles on the side of Jan Hus and thus against the Council of Constance and the Bohemian sovereign Sigismund . The information about the year of Wilhelm's death fluctuates between 1422 and 1430. Since the eldest son Stephan / Štěpán died while Wilhelm was still alive and the second-born son Bavor left no heirs, Wilhelm's extensive inheritance passed to the youngest son Johann . He also held influential state offices in Moravia and later supported the Bohemian King George of Podebrady .

family

Before 1385 Wilhelm married Agnes von Pottenstein ( Anežka z Potštejna ). This marriage presumably came from

In his second marriage, Wilhelm married Katharina von Sternberg ( Kateřina ze Šternberka ). The son presumably came from this marriage

  • Johann († 1475), Chief Chamberlain of the Brno Regional Court and from 1473 one of the four governors of Moravia; ⚭ 1. before 1437 Barbara von Waldstein ( Barbora Brtnická z Valdštejna ); ⚭ 2. before 1445 Bohunka from Lomnica ( Bohunka Mezeřícká z Lomnice ); ⚭ before 1475 Margaret / Markéta of Vranov

After Katharina's death before 1407, Wilhelm married Anna von Sternberg ( Anna ze Šternberka ). She probably gave birth to the daughter

  • Anna (around 1408 – after 1447), ⚭ Heinrich von Waldstein ( Jindřich z Valdštejna )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from family tree on p. 384; on the other hand, in the index on p. 315 the year of death is given as “after 1427” and on the hypothetical family tree on p. 32 the year 1430.
  2. ↑ In the genealogy web link she is referred to as Magdalena .
personal data
SURNAME Pernstein, Wilhelm I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernstein, Wilhelm I. von; Pernštejna, Vilém I. z
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1360
DATE OF DEATH around 1425