Cobenzl, Johann

Kobenzl, Johann (Hans, in Russian acts Jan;? —1598) - Komtur of the German Order , imperial adviser and ambassador.

Johann (Jan) Cobenzl
him. Johann Freiherr Cobenzl von Prossegk
Ambassador of Austria to Russia 1576
Monarch	Maximilian II
Birth
Death	1598 ( 1598 )
Kind	Cobenzl (genus)

In 1575, together with Buchau and as his assistant, he was sent by Emperor Maximilian II to Moscow to Ivan Vasilievich . In 1572, the last of the Jagiellons died in Poland. The German emperor, wanting to grant the Polish throne to Archduke Ernst , decided to enlist the assistance of John IV for this purpose and sent ambassadors to him, who ordered him to put in a word to John for Livonia.

In January 1576, the ambassadors met the king in Mozhaisk , from where Kobenzl, having separated from Buchau, went to Vilna , where he worked in favor of Ernst's ascension to the Polish throne. Grozny at that time was at war with the Livonians, and he, in turn, was not averse to securing support from the emperor. At first he accepted Ernst's candidacy proposal amiably; but when he received refusal from them in relation to Livonia, he calmly allowed the occupation of the Polish throne by Stefan Batory .

The goal of the embassy, ​​therefore, was not achieved, but it was of another importance: Kobentsl, at the request of his friend, Archbishop of Koloch, Nikolai Drankovich, made a description of his trip in Illyrian; a Latin translation is published by Starchevsky, “Historiae Ruthenicae scriptores exteri” (B., 1841); Russian translation in the "Bulletin of Europe" Kachenovsky part CXIII and in the " Library for Reading " (1842, v. 35).