Sňatek Zikmunda z Tiefenbachu a Kateřiny Meziříčské z Lomnice v kontextu sňatkových aliancí evangelické šlechty na předbělohorské Moravě
The marriage of Zikmund of Tiefenbach and Kateřina Meziříčská of Lomnice in the context of marriage alliances of evangelical nobility in pre-White-Mountain Moravia

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the study offers an overview of marriages arranged between evangelicalnoblemen and noblewomen owning estates in Southern and South-Western Moraviaduring the last quarter of the 16th and first two decades of the 17th centuries. These weremostly members of five lordly families three of whom participated in forming evangelicalchurch code passed in October 1576 during a diet of Moravian evangelical nobilityand clergy from their manors held in Velké Meziříčí. The overview reveals that exactlythe marriages served to consolidate inner solidarity of this fraction in which the noblefamilies of Meziříčský of Lomnice, Brtnický of Valdštejn were together with the familiesof Hardegg, Thurn and Tiefenbach. The second part of the text analyses the wedding performedbetween Zikmund of Tiefenbach and Kateřina Meziříčská of Lomnice in September1607. Since this marriage was arranged in spite of the ban of the sovereign, whopreferred a catholic suitor in struggle for the bride and her inheritance after the family ofMeziříčský of Lomnice, there followed a thorough investigation of circumstances underwhich the preceding engagement had been taken and also the marriage ceremony of bothprotestant spouses itself at the turn of years 1607 and 1608. Together with the proceduralaspects of the litigation, which was terminated by the peace treaty of Libeň between RudolfII and Mathias of Habsburg in June 1608 and the death of Kateřina Tiefenbach ofLomnice during the following year, the attention is further drawn to the argumentationwhich both sides used during hearings at the Royal Council.

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