Metadata: Country-royal Court Chancelleries - Fridericiana
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Tyrolean Regional Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tiroler Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Michael-Gaismair-Straße 1; 6020 Innsbruck
- Phone number:
- 0043 512 508 3502
- Web address:
- https://www.tirol.gv.at/kunst-kultur/landesarchiv/
- Email:
- landesarchiv@tirol.gv.at
- Reference number:
- Landesfürstliche Hofkanzleien - Fridericiana
- Title:
- Country-royal Court Chancelleries - Fridericiana
- Title (official language):
- Fridericiana
- Creator/accumulator:
- Country-royal Court Chancelleries
- Date(s):
- 1395/1439
- Date note:
- ca. 1400-1439
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 2 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Country-royal Court Chancelleries” is a non-Jewish collection with a small number of Jewish-related documents. The collection comprises three series, called “Fridericiana”, “Sigmundiana” and “Maximiliana”. These are the oldest series of the Tyrolean Regional Archive, created in the 19th and 20th century. The collection contains records which were created during the reign of the Tyrolean princes Friedrich IV. (1406-1439), Sigmund (1439-1490) and Maximilian I. (1490-1519) respectively. These documents are chronologically sorted by the reign of these Tyrolean princes. These three collections also include documents of other provenances, for example records originating from the archives of the counts of Görz, which were transferred to Innsbruck after 1500. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 66-68.)
The series “Fridericiana” comprises records and deeds of Friedrich’s Chancellery and its archive. The deeds, made of paper, primarily consists of correspondence about political matters. One may find concepts and transcripts as well as account books and chancellery books covering the period from 1406 to 1439. “Fridericiana” comprises 582 records and deeds, which are divided into Group A and B. Group A is composed of records with various topics and sorted into “positions” from 1 to 39 covering the period from 1401 to 1439. Position 40 (also part of Group A) contains undated records. Group B is divided into positions 41 to 44 and includes documents with a similar connection. It contains, for example, pay receipts of the counts of Görz and disagreements between Tyrolean counts concerning matters of heritage. Furthermore, there are different trial records and complaints of subjects and lords as well as deeds of the period before 1400 and transcripts of the period from 1400 to 1440.
In this collection, Jews are only mentioned in passing. There are two references in the documents of positions 34 and 44. The record of position 34, dating from 22 August 1434, is a letter from Albrecht V duke of Austria addressed to Friedrich IV with the request that the Jew Josef should come immediately to Albrecht V for a conversation. Further information about the meeting is not recorded. The second document (from position 44) is a complaint of the subjects of the city of Tann addressed to duchess Katharina of Austria (of Burgundy) with various requests concerning city matters, such as those relating to the city moat, questions of duties and estates for the city hospital as well as complaints about Jews who stayed in Tann. The document consists of three long strips of paper which are attached to each other. Another document mentions a Jew who was captured in Innsbruck for unknown reasons. He was able to escape in the year 1415. (Cf. Albrich (ed.), Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol, Vol. 1 Vom Mittelalter bis 1805, 43.)
NB: Most of the catalogues of the Tyrolean Regional Archive include not only content registers but also subject indices. These can be searched for terms such as “Juden” (“Jews”), “Judentum” (“Judaism“), “Judenschaft” (“Judaism”), “Israeliten” (Israelites) and “Hebräer” (Hebrews). Usually there are numbers next to the entries concerning Jewish matters, which are needed to find the records in the register. The next step is to look up the number in the content registers to get a first impression of the written sources. Documents of interest can be ordered with their reference number for further consultation.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the Tyrolean Regional Archive as part of the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The series “Fridericiana” was part of the extensive collection “Maximiliana” but was separated in 1936-37. The collection “Maximiliana”, which was created by the archivists in the year 1840, was composed of records from the surroundings of the territorial Serenities Friedrich IV (1406-1439), Sigmund (1439-1490) and Emperor Maximilian I (1490-1519) and was stored in the Territorial Treasury Archive.
“Maximiliana” was divided into 14 subject groups, numbered from I to XIV. In 1885, the files from Sigmund’s reign were extracted and combined into a separate collection called “Sigmundiana”. Further files concerning the reign of Friedrich IV which were part of “Sigmundiana” were separated in 1936-37 and became the collection “Fridericiana”. Currently the Tyrolean Regional Archive subordinates these three series to the extensive collection “Country royal Court Chancelleries”. The reduced collection “Maximiliana” is incomplete, as the records of subject group XIV went missing and group III was dissolved and its contents added to the collection “Aristocratic records”. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 66-68.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Frederick IV, Duke of Austria
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519
- Sigmund, Archduke of Austria, 1427-149
- Subject terms:
- Nobility
- Residency issues of Jews
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into Group A and Group B. Group A covers numbers 1 to 39, Group B from 41 to 44.
- Access, restrictions:
- Public access
- Finding aids:
- Finding aid: Rep. B 14a (Register, Index).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec, July 2017
