Wolfgang (Ortenburg)

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Coat of arms for Count Wolfgang in the St. Laurentius Church in Steinkirchen near Ortenburg.

Wolfgang († July 29, 1519 at Neu-Ortenburg Castle ) was the only son of George II von Ortenburg and Anastasia von Fraunberg . He comes from the Lower Bavarian noble house of the Ortenburgers . Some historians refer to it as the ornament of the Ortenburg Count's House. After the death of his uncle Sebastian I in 1490 he took over the reign of the imperial county of Ortenburg .

Live and act

Wolfgang appears for the first time in a document in 1474 together with his siblings Barbara, Sibylla and Heinrich.

After the death of his uncle Sebastian I in 1490, Wolfgang became the eldest of the family as the reigning imperial count. Officially he was on October 3, 1491 by Emperor Friedrich III. enfeoffed with the county.

During Wolfgang's reign, the Landshut War of Succession, triggered by the death of George the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut , took place from 1503 to 1505 between Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich and Count Palatine Ruprecht of the Palatinate . Previously, in 1496, Duke Georg appointed his daughter Elisabeth , who had been married to the son of the Count Palatine of the Palatinate since 1499, as heir. One of the witnesses to this will was Count Wolfgang von Ortenburg.

After Georg's death in 1503, the Lower Bavarian estates of the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut established a temporary reign of 16 nobles. At its head was Count Wolfgang von Ortenburg.

During the War of Succession, Wolfgang stood on the side of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich and thus campaigned against the will he testified. On June 9, 1504, he signed a contract with the ducal house of Munich for three years of aid for 200 foot soldiers and 80 riders. Wolfgang rightly hoped to gain more Bavarian support for himself and his gender in the following years. The broken relationship between Bavaria and Ortenburg, as it had existed for 100 years, was forgotten.

During the war, both the Ortenburg market and the Alt-Ortenburg ancestral castle were sacked in 1504. The castle was almost completely devastated. Later, however, Wolfgang had it repaired again.

Immediately after the end of the war, Wolfgang had a lengthy feudal dispute with Andreas Wiells, from whom the count had withdrawn the Rainding feud . Wiells had participated in the looting of the festivals and the market during the war. This dispute was not settled until 1512.

1506 Wolfgang is in the state parliament in Munich. There he heads the large committee of the nobility that negotiates the dispute between Dukes Wilhelm and Ludwig von Bayern-Munich, sons of Albert IV, over the Primogeniture Act passed by their father .

Wolfgang was on the road in the service of the emperor and the empire. So he not only visited the imperial and state parliaments, but also supported the emperor militarily, on campaigns, but also in executions.

Wolfgang was not married and died childless, the possessions fell to his cousins ​​and were divided among them. He was buried in the count's hereditary burial in the Passau Sixtus Chapel. His successor as Imperial Count was his eldest cousin Ulrich II , the eldest son of Sebastian I.

literature

  • Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their branch lines . In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde. No. 36, Passau 1994, pp. 9-62.
  • Walter Fuchs: Steinkirchen, from the beginnings to the present In: Steinkirchen - The grave monuments in the Protestant burial church of the former imperial county of Ortenburg / Lower Bavaria (= Ortenburg home history - contributions to the Ortenburg history. Issue 1). Vilshofen 1991, pp. 8-28.
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house of Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. Vilshofen 1932.
  • Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 . Landshut 1863 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and countial general house of Ortenburg: edited from the sources . Sulzbach 1828 ( digitized in the Google book search).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Fuchs: Steinkirchen, from the beginnings to the present , p. 24.
predecessor Office successor
Sebastian I. Count of Ortenburg
1490–1519 		Ulrich II.
personal data
SURNAME wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Ortenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1519
Place of death Neu-Ortenburg Castle