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See also: German knight, was See also: born at the See also: castle of Jagsthausen now in See also: Wurttemberg
.
In 1497 he entered the service of See also: Frederick IV., See also: margrave of See also: Brandenburg-See also: Ansbach, and in 1498 fought for the emperor See also: Maximilian I. in See also: Burgundy, See also: Lorraine and See also: Brabant, and next See also: year in See also: Switzerland
.
About 1500 he raised a See also: company of freelances, and at their See also: head took See also: part in various private See also: wars
.
In 1505, whilst assisting See also: Albert IV., duke of See also: Bavaria, at the siege of See also: Landshut, his right See also: hand was shot away, and an iron one was substituted which is still shown at Jagsthausen
.
In spite of this " See also: Goetz with the iron hand " continued his feuds, their See also: motive being mainly booty and ransom
.
In 1512 an attack near See also: Forchheim on some merchants returning from the See also: great See also: fair at See also: Leipzig, caused him to be put under the See also: ban of the See also: empire by Maximilian, and he was only released from this in 1514 upon a promise to pay 14,000 gulden
.
In 1516 he made a See also: raid into Hesse and captured See also: Philip IV., count of Waldeck, whom he compelled to pay a ransom of 8400 gold gulden, and in 1518 was again placed under the ban
.
He fought for
See also: Ulrich I., duke of Wurttemberg, when he was attacked by the Swabian See also: League in 1519, and after a spirited resistance was compelled, through want of See also: ammunition and provisions, to surrender the See also: town of Mockmuhl
.
In violation of the terms of the capitulation he was held prisoner, and handed over to the citizens of See also: Heilbronn, but owing to the efforts of See also: Sickingen and Georg von See also: Frundsberg was released in 1522, upon paying 2000 gulden, and swearing not to take vengeance on the League
.
When the Peasants' War broke out in 1525 Goetz was compelled by the rebels of the See also: Odenwald See also: district to See also: act as their See also: leader
.
He accepted the position, according to his own account, partly because he had no choice, partly in the hope of curbing the excesses of the insurgents; but, finding himself in this respect powerless, after a See also: month of nominal leadership, he took the first opportunity of escaping to his castle
.
For his part in the See also: rebellion he was called to account before the See also: diet of Speier, and on the 17th of See also: October 1526 was acquitted by the imperial chamber
.
In spite of this the Swabian League seized the opportunity of paying off old scores against him . Lured to Augsburg, under promise of safe conduct, to clear himself of the charges made against him on behalf of the League, he was there treacherously seized on the 28th ofSee also: November 1528, and kept a close prisoner for two years
.
In 1530 he was liberated on repeating his See also: oath of 1522, and undertaking not to leave the neighbourhood of his castle of Hornberg on the See also: Neckar
.
He appears to have remained there quietly until 1540 when the emperor See also: Charles V. released him from his oath
.
In 1542 he fought against the
See also: Turks in Hungary, and in 1544 accompanied Charles when he invaded See also: France
.
He returned to Hornberg, where he passed his See also: time until his See also: death on the 23rd of See also: July 1562
.
He was twice married and See also: left three daughters and seven
sons
.
The See also: counts von See also: Berlichingen-Rossach, of Helmstadt near See also: Heidelberg, one of the two surviving branches of the See also: family, are his descendants
.
The other branch, that of the Freiherrn von Berlichingen-Jagsthausen, is descended from Goetz's See also: brother Hans
.
Goetz von Berlichingen " is the title of Goethe's See also: play, which, published in 1773, marked an epoch in the See also: history of German drama (see GoETHE)
.
See R
.
Pallmann, Der historische Goetz von Berlichingen (Berlin, 1894) ; F
.
W . G . Graf von Berlichingen-Rossach, GeschichteSee also: des Ritters Goetz von Berlichingen and seiner Familie (Leipzig, 1861)
.
Goetz's Autobiography, valuable as a record of his times, was first published by Pistorius at See also: Nuremberg (1731), and again at See also: Halle (1886)
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