Wolf Niklas von Grünthal

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Wolf Niklas von Grünthal (also Wolfgang, Wolf Niclas, Grünthaler, Grienthaler in Kremsegg; * 1565 - † December 6, 1630 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Protestant nobleman , Lower Austrian regimental councilor and imperial court councilor of Emperor Ferdinand II.

Life

Wolf Niklas was the son of knight Wolfgang von Grünthal (around 1500–1576), imperial. Council and Upper Austrian Vizedom and his second wife Ursula Kölnpöck († 1601). Jakob conducted his studies in Tübingen in 1582, in Padua in 1585, and finally in Siena and Bologna in 1587. He fought for Emperor Rudolf II against the Turks in Hungary . He improved (with a diploma from October 9, 1603 in Prague) the coat of arms of him and his brothers Julius, Johann Jakob, Erhard and Johann Joachim and the sons of Philipp Jakob (Wolf Dietmar, Hans Andreas and Georg) and confirmed the old nobility. In 1609 he became a regimental councilor in Lower Austria, in 1613 he was ordained a knighthood and in 1619 the imperial court counselor of Emperor Ferdinand II. The emperor also appointed him Count Palatine and Court .

Wolf Niklas paid homage to Duke Maximilian of Bavaria in Linz in 1620 , to whom Upper Austria was pledged. In 1625/26 he was involved in the suppression of the Upper Austrian peasant uprising . Together with the Lilienfeld abbot Ignaz Krafft , Karl von Fuchs and the rector of the Vienna University Martin Hafner, Grünthal was the imperial envoy to the rural insurgents and was temporarily imprisoned in Steyr Castle until they were freed by Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim .

Wolf Niklas von Grünthal was Mr. zu Kremsegg , Achleiten and Dietach , Mr. Zeillern , Reinsberg, Wang and Windtern.

  • Kremsegg Castle

  • Achleiten Castle

  • Zeillern Castle

On February 2, 1592 he married Apollonia von Oed (1574–1621), daughter of the Lower Austrian hunter Heinrich Freiherr von Oed zu Oedenthal and Reinsberg on Rapoltenkirchen and Sitzenthal, and Margaretha (Marusch) von Zinzendorf. The wife brought Mr. Reinsberg and Mr. Wang into the marriage. The couple had 16 children, eleven sons and five daughters.

(see master list of Grünthal )

literature

  • Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities ”Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 201–220, especially 207f. Digitized
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordly and knightly class from the 11th century on, except for the present time , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 416-428, especially 421.
  • Oswald von Gschlusser: The Reichshofrat. Significance and constitution, fate and occupation of a supreme Reich authority from 1559-1806 (= Commission for the Modern History of Former Austria 33), study, Vienna 1942. PDF 43.5 MB
  • Susanne Gmoser: Chronological list of the Reichshofräte according to Oswald von Gschliesser (summary by Gschießler) PDF 1.2 MB
  • Wolf Niklas von Grünthal's register is in the Kremsmünster Abbey Library catalog entry

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene M. Weiß: Community coat of arms in the Scheibbs district, self-published, Wieselburg, 2004 (quoted by Prof. DI Leo Prüller) pp. 53–54 [1]
  2. ↑ G Closer: Der Reichshofrat , p. 189; or Gmoser: Chronological List ... , p. 54
  3. ↑ Historical and topographical representation of the parishes, monasteries, monasteries ... in the Archduke Austria , Volume 6 Vienna 1825, p. 176 f restricted preview

Remarks

  1. ↑ Data based on Oswald von Gschlusser: The Reichshofrat ...; at Wißgrill * 1556 and † December 1626
personal data
SURNAME Grünthal, Wolf Niklas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruenthal von Kremsegg, Wolf Niklas von; Wolf Niklas Grienthaler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman, Lower Austrian regimental councilor, Reichshof councilor of Ferdinand II.
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1565
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1630
Place of death Vienna