Ulrich of Hardegg
Ulrich to Hardegg ( Ulrich of Hardeck; Ulrich to Hardegg Glatz and in March the country; * after 1483, † 1535) was an Austrian nobleman, chief Erbschenk of Austria and Steward in Steyr. He came from the tribe of the family of the Counts of Prüschenk Hardegg. From 1501 to 1524 he was Lord of the deposit Bohemian county of Glatz. 1503 him and his family the title of Count of Glatz was awarded.
Origin and family
Ulrich's father, Count Heinrich von Hardegg (previously Prueschenk, Freiherr zu Stettenberg, † 1513) was in the imperial service and was temporarily Empire Captain in Italy. Since 1495, he bore the title of Count of Hardegg, and in 1499 he was raised to the imperial counts as Count Hardegg and in March the country. Ulrich's mother was Elizabeth (* 1466 ), a daughter of the Bohemian nobles and provincial governor of Silesia Johann II von Rosenberg. Ulrich had the brothers Julius I ( † 1557) and Johann († 1539? ).
1515 Ulrich married with Sidonie / Zdenka, a daughter of Münster Berger Duke Henry the Elder. and granddaughter of the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad.
Life
1501 acquired by Ulrich Hardegg for 70,000 Rhenish guilders of his later -in-law Albrecht I, George I and Charles I at that time directly to Bohemia belonging County of Glatz. The Glatzer country had only collected in 1459 by the Czech King George of Podiebrad to the county and should serve as a territory for his descendants. His son Henry the Elder. resided as the first Count of Glatz on its castle, but left at his death in 1498 his three sons, high debt, which is why they were forced the county to Ulrich Hardegg to sell.
The purchase contract voted for the erbuntertänigen farmers to the knight Hans von Pannwitz, Melchior Donig, George of Bishop Home and Heinrich von purchase Fung, while the Glatzer stands and the free judges Ulrich von Hardegg paid homage in person. In addition, being the approval of Henry the Elder widow. Ursula of Brandenburg, required that the county had received on the occasion of her marriage as a wedding gift. Once signed up, Ulrich von Hardegg confirmed the Glatzer nobility and the royal cities their previous privileges. Below Ulrich resided in Glatz, where he donated a baptismal font for the parish church, wearing his coat of arms.
1507, Emperor Maximilian I in his capacity as the Bohemian ruler Ulrich von Hardegg mint money. The embossed in his Glatzer coin coins were next to the coat of arms of the county include the coat of arms Hardegg family. During his reign a general parliament of the crown of Bohemia was held in 1512 in Glatz, among other information, the fight against robber barons was decided.
1524 issued by Ulrich Hardegg who also had the mountain shelf, for his country, a new mining order. In the same year, on December 29, he sold the county to his brother John of Hardegg. This resided primarily on a Heinrichsburg in the Lower Upper Austria.