Wolfgang von Polheim

Wolfgang Freiherr von Polheim (1458–1512)

Epitaph Wolfgang and his wife Johanna in St. Anna, Oberthalheim

Wolfgang Freiherr von Polheim (born October 31, 1458 - † November 11, 1512 ) was an Austrian nobleman and from 1501 until his death captain and regent in the Lower Austrian lands .

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Wolfgang von Pohlheim came from an Upper Austrian noble family ( Polheim-Wartenburg line ). Emperor Friedrich III. appointed him councilor and treasurer of his son Maximilian I , with whom he went to the Netherlands in 1477. On January 22nd, 1501 he was raised to the baron status ( Reichsfreiherr zu Polheim and Wartenburg ) and on the same day he was elected a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece . In April of the same year he was appointed Colonel Captain and Regent of "Austria under the Enns".

During a diplomatic stay at the court of the French King Charles VIII , he met Franz von Paula personally and then founded the first Paulan monastery in Germany in Oberthalheim near Timelkam .

Wolfgang von Polheim married Johanna von Borsselen (1476–1509), daughter of Count Wolfhart VI , in 1494 . von Borsselen and Charlotte de Bourbon (* probably 1449, † March 18, 1478), daughter of Ludwig III. , Count of Montpensier . His son Cyriak von Polheim and his descendants joined the Reformation .

Wolfgang is buried together with his wife in the former monastery church of St. Anna in Oberthalheim .

literature

• Zwiedineck:  Polheim, Wolfgang Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 821-823.
• Constant von Wurzbach : Polheim, Wolfgang in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 23rd volume, Vienna 1872, pp. 65–66.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 165. According to the Burgundian calendar, the new year only began at Easter, which is why the sources call it The year of recording was given as 1500, but according to today's calendar it is 1501.