Lamottové z Frintroppu na Návarově
The Lamotte von Frintropp at Návarov

Summary/Abstract: In the first half of the 17th century, tens of noble families from all over Europe arrived in Bohemia. Their arrival was primarily connected to political events. The immigrants included the members of French families Frintropp and de Lamotte. The first was Joachim Erhard von Frintropp, the Wallenstein army’s officer. His wife was Gertrude, née Schivelberg or Schinelberg von Schnellburg, originally from the Low Countries. The couple had a son, Vincent, and daughters Margaret, Maria Magdalene, and Maria Angela. After Joachim died, not known when, Gertrude married Pierre de la Croix, sieur de la Motte. Pierre then adopted her first-marriage children who then used the predicate de Lamotte von Frintropp. Pierre was Wallenstein’s officer as well; for his military merit, Wallenstein granted him the estates in Poustka and Boleslav in the Frýdlant Region in 1624. After Pierre’s death before 27 January 1627, Albrecht von Wallenstein admitted his debt of 30,000 Rhenish guldens to Gertrude, in which he sold her the Návarov domain. The widow Gertrude de Lamotte ran the property together with her son Vincent but the Thirty Years’ War strongly affected their lives. In the 1640s Návarov Castle was conquered by the Swedish troops who took Vincent captive and imprisoned him for eight months. The fortress was then besieged several times and conquered, eventually falling into the hands of the imperial troops. Since the castle served as the enemy’s strongpoint during the Swedish invasion, the emperor ordered its demolition on 29 June 1644. It has remained in ruins ever since.In 1651 Gertrude and Vincent concluded their long-term dispute with Nicholas Des Fours, the owner of the neighbouring Semily domain. Gertrude wrote her testament on 3 February 1654, bequeathing Boleslav and Poustka estates together with Návarov and Jesenný castles to her children. Vincent and Maria Angela received Návarov and Jesenný, while Maria Magdalene acquired Poustka and Boleslav. When the siblings split in 1664, Maria Angela kept Návarov; she married Johan von Nounckel and their descendants retained the castle up to 1873.Vincent’s departure for Jesenný terminated the short period of the Lamotte ownership of the Návarov castle and homestead. They owned Návarov for 37 years, from 1627 to 1664. During this short period, many significant events occurred. The uncomfortable medieval castle remained permanently desolate. The owners built a new comfortable palace on a courtyard below that became a new centre of the domain. The time of the Lamotte von Frintropp thus remains a significant milestone in the Návarov history.

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