Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt
Heinrich Wenzel von Oels and Bern city (also: Heinrich Wenzel von Podiebrad; Heinrich Wenzel von Bern city; Heinrich Wenzel von Münsterberg, in Czech: Hynek, Václav z Minstrberka; * October 7, 1592 probably in oil; † August 21, 1639 probably in Bernstadt ) was 1617-1639 Duke of Bernstadt. He also led the title of duke of Münsterberg and the title of Count of Glatz. From 1629 to 1639 he was chief governor of Silesia.
Life
Heinrich Wenzel came from the Münster Berger family branch of the Bohemian noble family Podiebrad. His parents were Charles II of Münsterberg and Elisabeth Magdalena (1562-1630), daughter of Duke Georg II Brieger
1608 was appointed Heinrich Wenzel rector of the University Viadrina Frankfurt ( Oder). After an educational trip through Europe he was imperial army Commissioner for Silesia and Imperial Council. After the death of his father in 1617 he took over the government over the Duchy of Bernstadt. At the same time he inherited along with his younger brother Karl Friedrich Moravian gentry Sternberg and Jaispitz.
Together with his brother Karl Friedrich Heinrich Wenzel welcomed in February 1620 in its North Moravian town of Sternberg in 1619 the newly elected King of Bohemia Friedrich V., who was at the homage trip to Wroclaw. 1625 Heinrich Wenzel called the composer and hymn writer Matthew Apelt to Bern city and appointed him in 1631 to the Secretary of his Chancery.
1627 lived Heinrich Wenzel of the coronation of the future Emperor Ferdinand III. King of Bohemia in Prague at. Following the withdrawal of Legnica Duke Georg Rudolf 1628, the Office of the Silesian provincial governor ( chief official ), the political influence of the future provincial governor was weakened by imperial decree. Against the promise of the free exercise of religion for his country rendered King Ferdinand III. 1629 the Office of the Chief 's Heinrich Wenzel. When in 1632 the Protestant princes of Silesia in 1632 sought a rapprochement with the Swedish- Saxon conquerors, leaning Heinrich Wenzel, who wished to remain loyal to the Emperor, the convening of a prince from the day and left the country temporarily. Unlike his brother, Charles Frederick, who in 1633, together with the dukes Johann Christian von Brieg and Georg Rudolf of Legnica and the Council of the city of Wroclaw an alliance (conjunction ) joined, which placed itself under the protection of Saxony, Brandenburg and Sweden lost Heinrich Wenzel not the imperial favor.
1637 Heinrich Wenzel gave the city Medzibor the municipal law. After his death in 1639, he was buried in oil. When Duke of Bernstadt was succeeded by his brother Karl Friedrich.
Family
- On November 7, 1617 he married Anna Magdalena von Wittelsbach, Countess Palatine of Veldenz ( 1602-1630 ). This marriage remained childless.
- After Anna Magdalena's death Heinrich Wenzel married on August 26, 1636 Anna Ursula von Reibnitz († 1648). This marriage came from the daughter of Anna Elizabeth, who was born in 1637 and died in 1642, and two sons who died in infancy. Anna Ursula von Reibnitz was in Regensburg on January 16, 1637 from the Roman-German King Ferdinand III. raised to the Princess of Bernstadt.