Trčka z Lípy, Jan Rudolf

     
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Trčka z Lípy Trčka z Lípy
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Jan Rudolf Jan Rudolf
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Jan Rudolf Trčka z Lípy
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DD.MM.1557
DD.MM.1557
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29.09.1634 Havlíčkův (Německý) Brod
29.09.1634 Havlíčkův (Německý) Brod
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Syn Buriana III. Trčky z Lípy.
Otec Adama Erdmana Trčky z Lípy.
Po jeho smrti rod vymřel po meči.
Son of Burian III. Trčka z Lípy.
Father of Adam Erdman Trčka z Lípy.
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Hanzlík, M. 2004: Hrad Lipnice. ISBN 80-86644-53-7 Gloriet. ISBN 80-86752-27-5 NPÚ-ÚOP, v Brně.
https://www.smirice.eu/usedlosti/rodokmen1.htm
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Jan Rudolf Trčka from Lípa

He was born in 1557 to parents Burian III. Trcka z Lípy and Kateřina of Gutštejn, he also had a sister Markéta (no other siblings are known) who survived him by about 10 years. He became one of the most prominent members of the family, but was also the last male of the family, although he did provide for a successor. His wife was almost 12 years younger, Mary Magdalene of Lobkowitz. With her he had four sons and two daughters. One of them was Vilém Trčka of Lípa, whose date, let alone year of birth we do not know, but it is clear that he died in 1632. In 1590 his wife gave him a son Burian Jaroslav Trčka of Lípa, but he died at a young age of about 8 years in 1598, another son Jan Rudolf Trčka of Lípa was born two years later than his brother Burian Jaroslav, but already in 1596, so he died not older than 4 years. We do not know when his two daughters Elisabeth Magdalena and Johanna were born. Elisabeth Magdalena died four years after her father in 1638, whereas Johanna died in 1651. Finally, the (apparently) last son was Adam Erdman Trčka of Lípa, born in 1600, who became the great hope of the family and in at least some respects surpassed his father and certainly could have achieved more. He married 8 years younger Maria Maxmiliana of Harrach, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. However, both of his sons, Albrecht Adam Trčka of Lípa and Burian Maxmillián Trčka of Lípa, born in 1631 and 1632, died at an early age before 1634. The daughter Marie Isabella was born as the first child in 1630 and was the only one to live to adulthood, even to an age very rarely seen at that time, when she died in 1702. Nevertheless, Adam Erdman linked his career with the imperial army and was an important companion, perhaps even a really close friend of Albrecht von Wallenstein, and so eventually shared his fate when he was murdered in Cheb on 25 February 1634. Thus, the only surviving male member of the family became the nearly 77-year-old Jan Rudolf. He had already become a widower a year earlier, when his wife Maria Magdalena died, he lost his only surviving son and both of his grandchildren. Apart from his sister, the family was left with only his two daughters and a granddaughter. And not long after that, on 29 September 1634, Jan Rudolf Trčka of Lipa, who was very old for his time, died. This was the end of the Trčka family of Lipa by the sword.

At the same time Jan Rudolf was a very important nobleman of the second half, and rather the last quarter of the 16th century and the more significant part of the first half of the 17th century. He held the position of imperial councillor. After his cousin Kryštof Jaroslav Trčka of Lipa died in 1601, he merged part of his estate with the Smiřice and Opočen estates. In 1603, he was already the richest or rather the wealthiest nobleman in the Bohemian lands. In 1605, he asked for his family to be included among the ancient families of Bohemian lords, thus gaining the right to sit in Bohemian assemblies. In 1615, he was the second largest noble owner after Albrecht of Smiřice. In 1617 Jan Rudolf made his first will, which was valid until a new will was made. When in 1618 the rebellion of the Estates broke out, Jan Rudolf did not join either side. Yet he belonged (or at least his family is considered to belong) to the Protestants. It seems that the Trčka family secretly supported the revolt and only signed the Estates Confederation. In 1620, the most estates of Jan Rudolf are found in the tax registers in the Hradec and Čáslav regions. After the White Mountain, Jan Rudolf's wife wrote a letter to the Emperor that was partly congratulatory (but rather flattering) and partly apologetic about her husband. However, on 6 February 1621, her husband was placed under house arrest. She therefore wrote yet another letter to the Emperor in which she had to humiliate herself. After all, she also had to intercede on behalf of her father, who in the end got off with life imprisonment, which was probably a great victory compared to some other gentlemen who did not fare so well at the hands of the executioner Mydlář in the Old Town Square. After all, the letter alone in the matter of her husband would probably not have been sufficient, the main reason that neither Jan Rudolf nor the property of the Trčků of Lípa was persecuted was the loan to the Emperor of 24,000 kopecks, certainly a considerable sum. Together with Albrecht von Wallenstein, they gained a lot from the confiscated estates of the Bohemian nobility. The wife of Jan Rudolf, Maria Magdalena, who was considered in her time to be politically and commercially very talented, often even ruthless, had a great share in this. She was generally not very popular among the people. In 1628, a peasant uprising took place in the part of the territory owned by the Trčků of Lípa. The insurgents, or rather rebels, occupied Náchod, Nové Město nad Metují and Opočno. Albrecht von Wallenstein also participated in the suppression. Otherwise, as part of the expansion and consolidation of their dominions, Jan Rudolf's wife and Albrecht von Wallenstein exchanged or sold various properties between them. And the Opočno estate became the seat of the Trčků of Lípa, especially of Maria Magdalena. The situation in the country, especially the strong recatholization, forced Jan Rudolf and his son Adam Erdman to convert to Catholicism on 4 November 1628 (they were Protestants), the other option would have been emigration. In contrast, Mary Magdalene, though Lutheran, did not have to convert (she was given permission, but only the most prominent noblewomen received it). In January 1629, John Rudolf received a letter from Pope Urban VIII, who expressed his satisfaction with the conversion of the Trčka family. It is questionable, however, to what extent this conversion was sincerely intended in the minds of the Trčks, since the option of emigration would have deprived them of a considerable part of their property. Adam Erdman received the hereditary title of count in the year, and his father received the same title a year later. On 6 July 1630, the title of Count was confirmed for the lands of the Bohemian Crown. He was appointed chamberlain to Emperor Ferdinand II and in 1633 became governor and provincial judge. This period was then rather the time of the rise of the new generation of Trčků, namely Jan Rudolf's son, Adam Erdman. However, his mother's important role in the development of the family was far from over. It is undoubtedly documented that the family maintained contacts with various emigrants. Mary Magdalene certainly played a large part in this, but her death in 1633 was the first blow to Jan Rudolf. The death of his son William a year earlier certainly affected him, but he had long been in exile because of his religion. This further blow was followed shortly afterwards by the trial of the so-called traitors to the Emperor, and it was decided that all the property of the Trčks would be confiscated. There was not much to be done on the part of Adam Erdman (rather nothing) and thus the forfeiture of his possessions and fortune was clear, but there was still property belonging to Jan Rudolf. He therefore decided to make a new will, which he signed on 2 July 1634. Since he had no male heir and probably already felt the end approaching himself, he decided to at least redistribute the estate to his two daughters, his granddaughter Maria Isabella, and Adam Erdman's widow Maxmiliana. After his death on 29 September 1634 in Havlíčkův Brod, the estate was administered for some time by a number of administrators. This estate concerned especially the Hradec Králové region, especially the Opočenský estate (but also other estates). However, in 1636, Jan Rudolf, who had been dead for two years, and even his wife, who had been dead for almost a year longer, were convicted of conspiring against the emperor in 1619-1620 and of aiding Wallenstein's anti-emperor rebellion. The judgment forfeited all the family's property to the crown. The memory of the family was declared cursed and their kshafts were erased from the land records. The administrators of John Rudolph's inheritance tried to defend him and fought for the rights of the heirs in every possible way, but mainly out of fear of the emperor they finally capitulated. The estate of Jan Rudolf Trčka of Lipa was estimated at 3,107,865 guilders. For example, the Opočen estate, which initially came under the control of Rudolf Colloredo, Count of Walsee, as early as December 1635, so before the verdict, was valued at 394,885 riel. But as early as 9 January 1636 it was valued at 406 613 gold riels. However, already in October of the same year the estate was valued at 351,456 gold riels. This price was then to be paid by the Collorado family, but in the end they received the estate for only 5,456 riel, as they received a reward of 300,000 riel for fighting the Wallenstein conspiracy. Other property of the Trčks also came into the possession of many smaller and larger noble families, making the Trčk Dominion definitively their own, as well as this family.



Pavlovec, O. 2008. Olomouc.
Family tree of Trčků z Lípy
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