Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs 52. (2007)
LINDQUIST, Thea: Clement von Radolt (1593–1670): A Multifarious Career in the seventeenth-century Imperial Service
Thea Lindquist clearly show that Radolt lent generously to the government over the years and that he received payments from various incoming sources of revenue to help pay off these loans.33 The government assigned the annual toll revenue levied at the Lange Brücke over the Danube to Radolt and Count Traun to settle their loan of 200,000 florins.34 During his many years as a Hofkammer councilor, Radolt did not spend all of his time poring over accounts in the Hofkammer offices in Vienna. He traveled widely throughout the Habsburg lands in connection with financial business, making trips to Innsbruck, Pressburg, and various places in Hungary. In 1654, for instance, he served as principal commissioner for the visitation of Gmunden.35 In addition to his customary responsibilities, Radolt also accepted special appointments and commissions that were a natural extension of his work in the Hofkammer. Particularly, he held several posts in the last half of the 1640s and throughout the 1650s in the Obristproviantamt, including Obristproviantmeister and Feldproviantdirektor,36 The Obristproviantamt, based in Vienna, was the central authority responsible for army provisioning, which involved obtaining, storing, delivering, and distributing the provisions necessary to support army operations in Einflusses der Wittelsbacher [hereafter: BA], n.s., pt. 2, vol. 8, Januar 1633-Mai 1634, ed. Kathrin Bierther, Munich 1982, p. 653: 15 March 1634, Johann Stiicklin, Bavarian agent in Vienna, to Maximilian I). 33 Examples are found throughout the Hofzahlamtsbücher dating from the later 1640s, such as in HKA, Hofzahlamt, Rechnungsbücher [hereafter: HZAB] 96 II (1650), ff. 236-237, HZAB 98 II (1652), f. 410, HZAB 100 (1654), ff. 459-463, HZAB 102 (1656), ff. 197-198, HZAB 104 (1658), f. 418, and HZAB 105 (1660-1661), ff. 209-210; also d’Elvert, Christian: Beiträge zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder, insbesondere Mährens, im siebzehnten Jahrhunderte, Schriften der historisch-statistischen Sektion der k. k. mähr.-schles. Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Akerbaues, der Natur- u. Landeskunde, vol. 16, 17, 22, 24, Brünn 1867-1878, vol. 4, p. 198: 28 Feb. 1642, Imperial communication to Radolt regarding his loan to help cover war expenses. 34 Bergenstamm, Alois: Geschichte des unteren Werds oder der heutigen Leopoldstadt, Vienna 1812, p. 135. Radolt’s will shows he also held claim to debts at the Roter Turm. (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv [hereafter: HHStA] Oberstmarschallamt, cart. 625: original will of 5 Nov. 1668, revised and corrected on 5 Sept. 1670, published on 7 Dec. 1670). 35 HKA, HZAB 100(1654), f. 452. 36 Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Kriegsarchiv [hereafter: KA], Hofkriegsrat, Protokolle, Registratur and Expedit, 1646-1659, vols. 294-320 (Obrist Proviantmeister); d’Elvert: Geschichte der böhmischen Länder, vol. 4, p. 278: 26 Jan. 1647, Imperial notification investing Radolt with the „Directorium uber das Veldt Magazin und Proviandtwesen in Oesterreich unter und ob der Ennß”; Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv [hereafter: WStLA], Grundbücher [hereafter: GB] 1/15, f. 273 (General Feldproviantwesen Direktor). In 1670, after his death, Radolt’s family received a monthly payment of 50 florins from the army. (KA, Hofkriegsrat, Protokolle, Registratur and Expedit, vols. 337-338). Radolt was also involved in other provisioning activities before the mid-1640s; however it is not clear if he was functioning formally as a provisioning official, (d’ Elvert: Geschichte der böhmischen Länder, vol. 4, p. 47: 24 Dec. 1632, Commission for the Hofkammer councilors Schellhart und Radolt to fulfill provisioning duties for the Hungarian border that Christof Eggstein, a provisioning officer, had left over for two years). 16
