Hieronymus Makowsky

Portrait of Hieronymus Makowsky (1603), engraved by Aegidius Sadeler

Hieronymus Makowsky (born circa 1565) was a Bohemian knight and a gentleman of the privy chamber to Emperor Rudolph II.[1] He is thought to have had a homoerotic (although not necessarily sexual) relationship with the emperor.[2]

In 1598 he sat in the Bohemian Estates as a member of the knighthood.[3] In 1601 the emperor awarded him the hamlet of Vřesce, in the parish of Ratibořice (Tábor District), and its associated mining rights.[4] In 1603, when he was 38 years old, his portrait was engraved by Aegidius Sadeler.

In 1604 he was imprisoned in Křivoklát Castle after being accused of neglecting his duties, taking bribes for access to the emperor, intercepting the emperor's letters, betraying the emperor's secrets and boasting that he held the emperor's life in his hand.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Henry Carrington Bolton (1904). The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II, 1576-1612. Milwaukee. p. 110.
  2. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, ed. (2010). Mann für Mann: biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte von Freundesliebe und mannmännlicher Sexualität im deutschen Sprachraum. 2. Münster. p. 1001.
  3. ↑ Böhmischen Landtagsverhandlungen und Landtagsbeschlüsse. 9. Prague. 1897. p. 496.
  4. ↑ F. C. Watterich von Watterichsburg (1845). Handwörterbuch der Landeskunde des Königreiches Böhmen. Prague. p. 473.
  5. ↑ Ferdinand B. Mikowec (1860). Malerisch-historische Skizzen aus Böhmen. Vienna. p. 82.
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