Die Großbotschaften Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallersteins und Elçi İbrahim Paşas (1699–1701)

@incollection{QHOD_o:owip.l.hbg.17000318.1, url = {https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:owip.l.hbg.17000318.1}, doi = {}, title = {Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallerstein an Kaiser Leopold I., Konstantinopel, 18. März 1700}, author = {Wolfgang IV. Oettingen-Wallerstein}, editora = {Mayer, Manuela}, booktitle = {Die Großbotschaften Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallersteins und Elçi İbrahim Paşas (1699–1701)}, series = {Digitale Edition von Quellen zur habsburgisch-osmanischen Diplomatie 1500–1918}, number = {Projekt 7}, editor = {Strohmeyer, Arno and Dandachi, Laila and Grigoriou, Dimitra and Kurz, Stephan and Mayer, Manuela and Yılmaz, Yasir}, editorb = {Strohmeyer, Arno}, editorc = {Sonnberger, Jakob and Kurz, Stephan}, editorctype = {data modelling}, editoratype = {redactor}, editortype = {editor}, editorbtype = {project lead}, date = {2026}, origlanguage = {de}, origdate = {1700-03-18}, annote = { ÖStA, HHStA Wien Staatenabteilungen, Türkei I Kt. 174-1, fol. 27r-v, 30r-32v, 34r-v, 47r-49v, 52r-v, 57r-v }, publisher = {Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg {and} Balkan Studies}, location = {Wien}, title_translation_de = {Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallerstein an Kaiser Leopold I., Konstantinopel, 18. März 1700}, title_translation_en = {Wolfgang IV zu Oettingen-Wallerstein to emperor Leopold I, Constantinople, March 18, 1700}, booktitle_translation_en = {The Grand Embassies of Wolfgang IV zu Oettingen-Wallerstein and Elçi İbrahim Paşa (1699–1701)}, booktitle_translation_de = {Die Großbotschaften Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallersteins und Elçi İbrahim Paşas (1699–1701)}, series_translation_de = {Digitale Edition von Quellen zur habsburgisch-osmanischen Diplomatie 1500–1918}, series_translation_en = {Digital Scholarly Edition of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Sources 1500–1918}, series_translation_tr = {Habsburg-Osmanlı Diplomasisi Kaynakları Dijital Edisyonu 1500–1918}, keywords = {Oettingen-Wallerstein describes how his embassy is increasingly being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of Christian prisoners and slaves from Constantinople seeking refuge with them and that he worries, if he can manage to feed, supply and bring them all home. The grand ambassador reports that the flight of an increasing amount of these slaves angered their owners and he that even worried about the safety of his residence. The janissary guards depatched for his residence were substituted and even sentenced to be strangled to death for profiting off of the desperate slaves pleading for refuge, which Oettingen-Wallerstein could prevent for at least one of the trusted guards. To safe face with the Ottomans as grand ambassador, Oettingen-Wallerstein had to express his regret for the whole situation, while simultaneously rejecting further preventive measures such as additional janissaries, who, in his opinion, might have been dispatched to return some of the slaves. All slave owners or patrons who stepped forth and complained about their loss were compensated with money by Oettingen-Wallerstein to ease the tension and to afford this he had to borrow money from the accompanying priest Trinitarius' church money and from a local merchant. Oettingen-Wallerstein requests more money from the emperor to free even more Christians, especially the ones designated to be galley slaves, and wants to preemptively protect himself from any complaints made to the emperor by stating his motivations.}, abstract = {Oettingen-Wallerstein describes how his embassy is increasingly being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of Christian prisoners and slaves from Constantinople seeking refuge with them and that he worries, if he can manage to feed, supply and bring them all home. The grand ambassador reports that the flight of an increasing amount of these slaves angered their owners and he that even worried about the safety of his residence. The janissary guards depatched for his residence were substituted and even sentenced to be strangled to death for profiting off of the desperate slaves pleading for refuge, which Oettingen-Wallerstein could prevent for at least one of the trusted guards. To safe face with the Ottomans as grand ambassador, Oettingen-Wallerstein had to express his regret for the whole situation, while simultaneously rejecting further preventive measures such as additional janissaries, who, in his opinion, might have been dispatched to return some of the slaves. All slave owners or patrons who stepped forth and complained about their loss were compensated with money by Oettingen-Wallerstein to ease the tension and to afford this he had to borrow money from the accompanying priest Trinitarius' church money and from a local merchant. Oettingen-Wallerstein requests more money from the emperor to free even more Christians, especially the ones designated to be galley slaves, and wants to preemptively protect himself from any complaints made to the emperor by stating his motivations.}, urldate = {2026-05-08}, },