Wolfgang V. von Walsee

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Wolfgang V. von Walsee († October 4, 1466 ), from the ministerial family of the Walseer , was captain above the Enns from 1452 to 1466 with short interruptions and in 1454/55 the highest captain above and below the Enns . Wolfgang V. and his brother Reinprecht V. were the last male descendants of the Walsee family.

Life

After Reinprecht IV. Von Walsee died in 1450, Emperor Friedrich III. the main team on the Enns with Johann von Schaunberg († November 16, 1453) occupied. Wolfgang and his brother Reinprecht V therefore stayed mostly at the court of the emperor, who treated them benevolently. Emperor Friedrich bestowed certain privileges on the Walseeers, but in the Wiener Neustädter Agreement of December 6, 1450, he also secured the concession that the high court should revert to the sovereign prince on all their rulers if the two Walseeers should die without male heirs.

In December 1451, the brothers Wolfgang V and Reinprecht V von Walsee joined Emperor Friedrich III., Whose brother Albrecht VI. and King Ladislaus Postumus took the Roman procession and accompanied them to Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, where Christmas was celebrated. The two brothers returned home from there and allied themselves with Ulrich von Eyczing . While Reinprecht stayed with his sick mother in Niederwallsee Castle , his brother Wolfgang was very active politically and joined the Mailberger Bund . Wolfgang became captain ob der Enns in 1452 and besieged the imperial castle in Wiener Neustadt with his Bohemian mercenaries and the troops of Ulrich von Eyczing, Ulrich II von Cilli , the Schaunbergers , Kuenringern and others in the same year . On August 10, 1454, Ladislaus Postumus appointed Wolfgang V supreme captain above and below the Enns in Prague, which he remained until the end of 1455. In addition, Wolfgang V. held the Austrian Supreme Marshal's Office and the Styrian Truchessamt hereditary.

On March 16, 1462, Wolfgang V pledged his allegiance to Archduke Siegmund in the case of the death of the sovereign Duke Albrecht VI. When Albrecht died on December 2nd, 1463, Wolfgang, as governor of the Enns, immediately announced a state parliament for December 15th, 1463. Contrary to Wolfgang's pledge, however, the general mood was in favor of Emperor Friedrich III. When Wolfgang declared that he and the Linz Castle wanted to keep his promise, he was threatened with impeachment. Finally it was agreed to hold a second state parliament on January 2, 1464. In the meantime, Mathias III. von Spaur, as the emperor's emissary, gave the Walseer appropriate perks, so that Wolfgang V also changed his mind and the state parliament on January 2, 1464, almost unanimously approved the recognition of Kaiser Friedrich as sovereign. Wolfgang kept the main team above the Enns and obtained the emperor's forgiveness for his partisanship, who from then on remained a gracious sovereign to him.

When the civil war broke out again in Trieste in 1466 between the Habsburg and Venetian -minded parties, which also affected the neighboring Walsee possessions, Wolfgang V hurried south in the late summer of 1466, where he died on October 4th as a childless widower and presumably in Augustinian monastery in Rijeka was buried.

Possessions

The legacy that Reinprecht IV had left to his two sons Wolfgang V and Reinprecht V still comprised property that was one of the most important in the entire high nobility of Austria. Although the Lords of Walsee ranked behind the Counts of Schaunberg or Maidberg , they were initially even richer and more powerful than them.

Under the ambitious but economically unsuccessful Wolfgang, who also loved a lavish and lavish lifestyle, the people of Walsee suffered considerable loss of property. In 1456 they gave up next to Rosenberg and Viehofen also Gleichenberg , Riegersburg and Eibiswald . Half of the Walsee property in Styria was lost. At the instigation of his frugal brother Reinprecht, on August 20, 1456, property was distributed between Wolfgang V and Reinprecht V von Walsee.

Wolfgang bequeathed in his will of September 1, 1465 as "Lord of Duino and on the Karste, Supreme Marshal of Austria, Schenk von Styria and captain of the land above the Enns" Emperor Friedrich III. all of his castles, towns, markets and villages on the Karste and in Istria , namely St. Veit am Pflaumb ( Fiume / Rijeka ), Veprinac , Moschenitz , "Sabinach", Guteneck with all their accessories, according to the division of the estate with his brother Reinprecht V. had come to him.

family

literature

  • Max Doblinger : The Lords of Walsee. A contribution to the Austrian aristocratic history. From the archive for Austrian history (vol. XCV, second half, p. 235) printed separately. (= Archive for Austrian History. Volume 95, pp. 235–578, I-15103/95, ISSN  0003-9322 .) Vienna 1906, 344 pages (especially IX. Section “Wolfgang V. and Reinprecht V. von Walsee ( 1450-1483). "Pp. 222-265).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Doblinger 1906, p. 243.
  2. ↑ a b c Doblinger 1906, p. 223.
  3. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 225.
  4. ↑ a b Doblinger 1906, p. 226.
  5. ^ Alois Zauner : Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria . In: Society for regional studies - Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 128a. Linz 1983, p. 62, entire article pp. 45–83 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  6. ↑ a b Doblinger 1906, p. 228.
  7. ↑ Doblinger 1906, p. 229.
  8. ↑ a b Doblinger 1906, p. 241.
  9. ↑ Otto Friedrich Winter : The Lords of Spaur in Lower Austria (1454-1548). In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. Volume 38, 1970, p. 320, entire article p. 313–338, PDF on ZOBODAT
  10. ↑ a b Doblinger 1906, p. 242.
  11. ↑ a b Doblinger 1906, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfgang V. von Walsee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Captain above the Enns
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1466