Goths
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Rozmberk Castle
Rožmberk, founded in the middle of the 13th century, lies on the banks of the Vltava river. It developed on a trade route from Český Krumlov to Linz in Austria. While owned by the Bohemian aristocratic House of Rožmberk.
Perchta of Rozmberk /Perchta z Rozmberka /Perchta von Rosenberg (c.1429-1476)
Perchta was the fourth of the six children of Ulrich II (Oldrich), lord of Rozmberk (in German, Rosenberg), in southern Bohemia (the western part of what is now the Czech Republic). Her mother died when Perchta was about seven years old. Her three brothers were educated in Prague, Perchta and her two sisters at home. The eldest sister, Anezka, never married, and lived first at Rozmberk and later at her own estate; the youngest sister married, had at least one child, and is not heard of again.
It was Perchta who would be heard of. In 1449 she was married to John of Lichtenstejn, in the neighboring state of Moravia (now the eastern part of the Czech Republic). Neither had any desire to marry the other, but the match united the Rozmberks with a powerful Moravian family. The dowry that Ulrich agreed to pay would establish Perchta as the mistress of Lichtenstejn, allowing her to supervise the household, pay her servants, and meet her other obligations. For the Lichtenstejns, the fact of the dowry would help them get credit, which they badly needed.
Unfortunately, Ulrich paid nothing of the dowry for four years, and the whole debt wasn't met for ten years. In Ulrich's defense, it should be noted that during the 1450s he was fully involved, diplomatically and militarily, in opposing the Hussites who controlled Prague. Ulrich was a Catholic supporter of Austrian Hapsburg control of the area; the Hussites were Protestant and nationalist. The Hussite leader George of Podebrady had occupied Prague in 1448; ten years later he would be elected as Czech king. Ulrich perhaps felt that the dowry money was better spent defending his church and country. The Lichtenstejns did not agree; they had been cheated and felt no desire to make Perchta and her servants feel at home (nor, in fact, to feed or clothe them).
The 41 letters written by Perchta that have survived are fascinating. During her first year of marriage, the 20-year-old believed that her beloved father would rescue her or at least make her husband be kinder to her. For the next three years, she turned to her eldest brother, again looking for intervention which at first didn't come. In 1454 part of the dowry was paid, and she wrote one of her few happy letters. By then she had learned, in part, how to deal with her husband. Nine years later, she pawned her jewels to cover her husband's debt; only then did she finally realize that his affection was measured only by her money.
In 1465, after 15 years of marriage, with the help of another brother, Perchta was permitted to leave her husband, allowed to take her daughter but not her son. For seven years she lived at her old home, Rozmberk, with her younger brother (her father had died in 1462). When that brother died, she went to live in Vienna. In 1472, her husband died. During all this time Perchta was writing letters asking for help from men in all those things a woman could not do --- first to get the income her husband had agreed to pay her after 1465, and then to get what was owed to her on his death in 1473.
The letters that Perchta dictated to her secretaries, mostly in Czech but occasionally in German, over a period of 25 years, show a naive girl growing gradually into a skeptical woman, one who had learned how to survive.
HISTORY OF THE GOTHS
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