Joachim Andreas von Schlick

Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Count of Passaun and Weißkirchen (in Czech Jáchym Ondřej Šlik z Holíče, hrabě z Passaunu; 9 September 1569, Ostrov – 21 June 1621, Prague) was a Czech nobleman of the Schlick family in the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire. He was one of the one of the leaders of the Protestant estates general in Bohemia and was executed in Prague in 1621 during the Old Town Square executions. He now rests in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Most.

Youth

He studied at the University of Jena, where he worked for several years as its rector, and worked for nine years at the Dresden court as an educator Saxon princes (e.g., John George, who during the rebellion he served as Elector of Saxony).

Uprising

He was involved since 1608 in the negotiations between the rebellious Czech states, and it was he who convinced Silesia and Lausitz to join the Bohemian revolt. He was one of the leading representatives of the Lutheran wing of the rebel states. During the Battle of White Mountain he didn't commanded a regiment of Moravian German mercenaries, as is sometimes erroneously stated. In fact the Moravian Regiment was commanded by his relative, Colonel Count Heinrich von Schlick, who later had a great career as imperial Field Marshal, and president of the Vienna court war council and who died in the year 1650.

During the reign of Matthias of Habsburg in 1611, he became a royal marshal. Then from the "Winter King" Frederick V, Elector Palatine, to whose election he had contributed, he received the Office of High Court judge. He participated in the Second Prague Defenestration and was probably one of her executors.

Prior to execution

In troubled times before his execution he managed to write a letter to Saxon agent in Prague, Bartholomew Brunner, his old friend who had promised to deliver the Provincial Commissioner, Prince Charles of Lichtenstein. At that time, Schlick served as reeve or bailiff, as appointed by the fugitive King Frederick of the Palatinate.

The letter of 17 January 1621 is intended as a supplication to Lichtenstein, who was a relative of Schlick's wife, asking him to intercede with the Emperor in hopes that a public apology would save him. Moreover, he offered tp help to justify expulsion of Frederick. The whole prayer schedules Schlick mainly because of its zkonfiskovanému property. The confiscation was time for all immigrants. He knew that the policy can succeed only those who are able to "turn around" and admit a "mistake". Distanced himself from everything and made the innocent. To him it really believed, confessed that: "... the convening of Congress in addition to other Karolina sought a second apology of self-conceived and approval status to print it to me." In this letter to his defense handled Schlick to the brink of their own dignity. In particular, points out the injustice that children generals Thurn and Fels (also immigrants) was left property and not him, even though he had nothing against states and their arrangement. (Incidentally, this general Thurn also wrote a letter to his defense and the 16th ledna 1621st was addressed him Moravian estates, capitulated in it mainly because, to please the other.) Thurn and Fels indicates, among other things Schlick as troublemakers and purveyors of evil. Brunner, who got the letter in his hand as the first, he also himself had read a few comments regarding the false excuses. At the same time, however, praised the great idea for the pacification of Silesia, which could earn the lost emperor's favor. From another perspective, however, was the idea Schlick fiasco. Was it not Schlick, who half a rousing third year Silesians and Lusatians the rebellion? Bartoměj Brunner, however, will be happy to fully Joachim added to the Emperor's side (and his dignity the more buried). A series of letters in which more and more tangled in his alleged innocence and promised axles. He did not make tame Silesians, who already at that time were entrusted to the care of Duke John George. Probably the most famous one of his last letters, which refers to the justice of God and the Emperor to such an extent that the entire list be considered for irony and mockery. At the same time, however, drew attention to the court Catholics, and especially of Fame, which the state circumscribed in their memory.

Charles I of Lichtenstein had to send the proposal proskripční Vienna Declaration, but not write to it Schlick, despite these efforts are in very deed of 6 February 1621 Joachim Ondřej discovered, and it was in the first place.

Lausitz finally gave in Saxon elector, and therefore Schlick disappeared for a short period abroad and thus escaped a close call warrant. Secretly, however, he returned to Bohemia and his arrest in March 1621 had been hiding with his nephew Christopher of Redern to Frydlant. Saxon spies by encrypting "deer caught in Rederns" dragged Schlick in Dresden. While his wife to rescue his men tried to cut, even at the cost of that on this "journey" was robbed three times, but her attempts did not produce any fruit. Schlick was sentenced to loss of honor, throat and property.

Execution

Executed was 21 June 1621 at the Old Town Square, the first was beheaded, then cut off the right hand of his executioner. The original verdict, however, was quartering alive. This execution became known as the execution of 27 Czech lords. He was executed first. Executioner Jan Mydlář hung his head with his hand laid on his mouth at the Old Town Bridge Tower. Seized goods were Kurovodice at Munich and Fort Svijany at Turnova were sold in 1622, Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Body

In May 1622 allowed Charles of Lichtenstein for frequent pleas Countess Šliks and other relatives to Šlikova skull SNAT as all ceremonies buried the body in the crypt under the pulpit at St. Salvator in Prague Old Town - this gave his own expense to build, even her in 1613 alone proposed. Probably in the years 1631-1632 was his tomb emptied the Saxon invasion, the suspects were Pauline, a skull wrote in 1862 in the journal Mikovec FB Lumir, in 1913, it said clearly identified Josef Lukášek - according to the special lenticular protuberance on the top, the skull allegedly in possession of General Count Franz Schlick (1789-1862), before it was his own father Josef Slik, which it inherited from Leopold Antonín Schlick (1663-1723), but it is questionable why this so prized skull came into the possession of hauensteinské side branch of the skull was deposited in the chapel in Kopidlno, then transferred to the family tomb at the cemetery in Šliks in charge at Jičína. It is possible that the rumor about the Pauline exhume his own extended family to conceal the place of eternal rest deceased. In 1767 he wrote Jáchymov Dean Anthony Jäckel in the parish chronicle, that the construction of the sacristy of the local church are found undescribed coffin with a body without a head draped in purple velvet and had him be Slik - this was created in conjunction with the fact that Šlikův grandfather, Joachim, this The city was founded at a later investigation, however, it found, further speculation is the secret burial of the body in Plano, where he was to be buried in the family tomb in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This speculation, however, is not supported, so it is said in the literature, local history, church crypt was another branch Šliks and opened in 1828.