Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Count Botho zu Stolberg and Wernigerode Lord, called the Blissful, ( born January 4, 1467 Stolberg (Harz), † June 22, 1538 ) was a German Regent. He ruled over the county of Stolberg Wernigerode the county and the county Hohenstein.
Life
He was the son of Count Heinrich of the elders of Stolberg and his first wife Matilda, the daughter of the Count of Mansfeld Volrad. Was born in the same time with him, his twin brother Henry the Younger.
Part of his early youth years spent Botho in southern Germany, where he was at the court of Duke, then Duke Eberhard of Württemberg, the brother of his stepmother, educated. From April 16 1493 to the February 9, 1494, he took a 26 -year-olds participated in a trip to Jerusalem and performed in recent years several princes knight services. He developed into a skillful diplomat. Already around the year 1491/92 he experienced a debt management offered by the extraordinary transformation of the administration, in which on a unified management of the finances rested by the stolbergischen bailiff of Reproduction and studied officials came to the fore. Because of his ability as an economist and negotiator, he was also an extraordinary degree of emperor and empire, but still far more taken by his lords and larger stands in claim. Both bonds than by transfer of offices and shops At first this was done by the Duke George of Saxony, which he served from 1501 to 1505 as a captain in Coburg, but his claims as suzerain further expansive than was previously usual, mustered him to the state legislatures and some specialty shops. But not herein and not in the many individual services that made the Busy this or that prince, the count is historical significance, but in the first row in the relationship he to the greatest prelates in the kingdom, the Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz and Cardinal Albrecht, occupied. From 1515 to the end of his life he was the Cardinal's advice or tutor for the pins Magdeburg and Halberstadt, ie, he was its representative or Administrator in the very many and important matters which were entrusted to the cardinal. The count occurred during the Reformation, its nature and also that of his Lord accordingly, usually mild and mediating on. He enjoyed so sure confidence of the cardinal, while the Count asked quite a few years after his first order to be relieved of his duties. Since, however, be too prolonged service of the court and, accordingly, the long absence from his family, country and people, he was too much in the long run, he insisted in 1524 on the discharge from enlisted service and was limited from then on the position of the Council of house.
Behind his busy work for Cardinal Albrecht came his services back as the Council of the Emperor Maximilian I and Charles V, although this recognition and thanks were in special ceremonies in 1518 and 1521. The suggestion of Charles V, to take the place of one of the four councils in the imperial government to Nuremberg in the latter years, he refused.
Family
Botho was with Anna, the sister of the last representative of the Eppsteiner noble family, Eberhard IV of Eppstein and since 1505 Graf von Königstein, married. After the childless death of Eberhard 1535 in succession to inherit his sister's sons Ludwig of Stolberg († 1574 ) and Christoph († 1581), the rule Eppstein including the county Königstein.
Botho had several children, among them the Count Heinrich and Ludwig of Stolberg, Countess Juliana of Stolberg, who is regarded as ancestress of the House of Orange -Nassau and Countess Anna of Stolberg, the 28th abbess of Quedlinburg Reich pin.