1/5/2024 0 Comments Hora svat helenyAll of his property was confiscated in 1622. He took part in the Uprising of the Estates against Ferdinand II. In 1610 Zikmund Matěj Vencelík of Vrchoviště, the Commissioner of the Bechyně Region, became the demesne owner through his marriage with Anna Magdalena Malovcová. Under their rule the Chateau was reconstructed (mainly in 1580-1583). In 1545 the Malovec Family became masters of Kamnice nad Lipou, which they held for 76 years. Another branch of this family is the Wentzl or Wentzel von Sternbach zum Stock und Luttach Family. See here the beautiful Smíšek Gradual, commissioned and owned by Michal Smíšek and now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Václav Vencelík of Vrchoviště had two brothers, Jan Smíšek (died c.1497) (progenitor of the Smíšek z Vrchoviště family, a wealthy ore and copper merchant, owner of mines, owner of Hrádek (now the Czech Museum of Silver and Silver Mining) and several urban houses in Kutna Hora) and Michal (1483 - 1511) (progenitor of the Libenicky z Vrchoviště family, Hofmeister of Kutná Hora and also an owner of Hrádek). Other properties in Bohemia that once belonged to the Venceliks included Nová Včelnice and Stráž nad Nežárkou. Vaclav died in Třešť in 1515, but was buried in Žirovnice. Knap obtained the status of 'říšských pánů' (Barons of the Holy Roman Empire, styled Reichsfreiherr von Sarabitz ze Sarabie) from Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III. In 1492, Václav Vencelík and his brothers Michal and Jan II. Václav Vencelík bought Žirovnice Castle in 1485, and subsequently the family reconstructed it significantly. The family came to the Kutné Mountains region with its flourishing silver mining industry (see Kutná Hora) and soon members of the family became Masters of the Imperial Mint (and managers of their own silver mines). The first records concerning the Vencelik barons of Vrchoviště, kin of the Smíšek family (see below), with whom they also shared the basic heraldic symbol in their coat-of-arms - the charge of a white unicorn in an azure field - date to the era of the last Přemyslid Kings of Bohemia. The Polish Wentzl Family is a branch of an old Bohemian family of wealthy nobles, mine owners, merchants and bankers, the Venceliks, humanists and generous donors of fine arts during the Renaissance period and subsequently. Their descendants and heirs are alive and well today. The Wentzl’s (derived from Vencelík or Wentzelickh (meaning descended from Wenceslaus or in Czech Václav), other derivations include Wentzel, Wentz’l, Wenzlick, Wanclik) and their relations played distinguished parts in commercial, banking, academic, literary and other affairs.
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