David Ungnad von Sonnegg

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David Ungnad von Sonnegg
Dominum Davidem Ungnad, Liberum Baronem de Sonnek, Præfečium Confili Bellici, qui pluribus Annis
Holy Roman Empire Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
In office
15721572
RelativesBrother Adam
Alma mater University of Tübingen inscritption disputed

David Ungnad von Sonnegg was the Holy Roman Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1572 to 1578. He was sent by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and accredited by Sultan Selim II. [1]

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Career

Sonnegg served Frederick II of Denmark during the Northern Seven Years' War from 1563 to 1570. He travelled to Constantinople in 1572 as envoy of Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian II, carrying a tribute to the Sultan. Sonnegg was accompanied by a retinue of 20, including the Flemish courtier and diarist Lambert Wyts, who wrote a book on his experiences in Turkey. [2] He retained the ambassadorship until 1578.

Ungnad was involved in an counterintelligence mission involving "reporting on, and attempting to prevent, an Ottoman spy mission" operated by a recent convert to Islam named Markus Penckner. [3]

In 1593 he became imperial Geheimrat and Hofkriegspräsident.

Sonnegg is buried in Horn, Austria. [4]

Stephan Gerlach the elder

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  2. M. Gachard, I. Notice des manuscrits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique qui existent à la Bibliothèque impériale, à Vienne, Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire Année 1863, 5, pp. 235-390 (in French)
  3. Graf, Tobias P. (2019-06-13). Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital. Brill. ISBN   978-90-04-40192-1.
  4. Österreichische Blätter für Literatur Und Kunst, Geschichte, Geografie p. 206
  5. Dorothea Wendebourg, Reformation und Orthodoxie, p. 31
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  8. DNB-IDN   12025509X
  9. Austrian National Library , Wie Rudolf H. W. Stichel in seinem Beitrag Der Istanbuler Palast des osmanischen Großvezirs Sokollu Mehmet Pascha (gest. 1579) in zeitgenössischen Abbildungen in architectura, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst Jahrgang 1996 Sonderdruck schreibt, handelt es bei Cod. 8615 um eine Kopie von David Ungnad´s „illuminierten Türkenbuch“,