Půta II of Častolovice

Puta the Elder of Častolowitz ( first name also: Puota, Puotha; surname also: Czastolowitz; Tschastolowitz; Czech: Půta starší z Častolovic, † 1397 ) was a nobleman ostböhmischer. He came from a noble family in the Kingdom of Bohemia Častolowitz and held high office.

Career

Puta Elder. is first detected for 1342, when King John of Luxembourg, the village Častolowitz, which was owned Putas, got to town. Emperor Charles IV appointed him in 1352 to the Viscount of pot stone. 1350-1369 he had the Burgliebenau in Waldburger Bergland. After working at the royal court in Prague, he held from 1368-1377, the Office of the Regional Governor of Frankenstein and 1366-1378 by the Regional Governor of the Glatzer country. In addition, he managed the 1372-1380 Lower Lusatia and in 1377 a part of Brandenburg. Under Charles' successor Wenceslas Puta 1384-1386 was captain of Luxembourg and from 1395 until his death, in turn, captain of Lower Lusatia.

1387 he acquired along with Boček II of Podiebrad by the brothers Jan and Jaroslav Meziříčí of the gentlemen Skuhrov and Rychmberk in the foothills of the Eagle Mountains. Since 1396 he and his wife Anna wrote about these two gentlemen, they must have been this year in his sole possession.

Puta Elder. He married Anna († 1440/54 ), daughter of Duke John II of Cieszyn Auschwitz. The marriage was descended from the same son of Častolowitz Puta this year.