Vojtěch Ignác (Adalbert Ignatius) Týřovský of Einsiedl (died 1695) and the end of the family at Chříč

Vojtěch Ignác inherited the Chříč estate with the town of Kožlany, burdened with considerable debts, while still a minor; his mother Eva Eurosina, née of Klenové, remained his guardian. As early as December 1652 she asked the archbishop that the parish priest of Kralovice, Alanus Folkner, might also administer the parish of Kožlany, which was then without a priest, reminding him of her husband's bequest of 500 schocks for a monthly sung mass. How devastated the estate she was taking over was is shown by the official survey of 1653–1655: in Kožlany there were forty occupied and sixteen deserted holdings, 441 strychs of deserted fields, buildings in a wretched state and a deserted parsonage; in Hedčany not a single farmer was in residence and eleven holdings lay deserted, and in Holovousy two occupied holdings stood against six deserted ones. In 1655 she sent the archbishop a certificate that her entire family and all the subjects in Kožlany were of the Catholic religion and that on Easter Monday they had attended divine service and the sermon delivered by the parish priest of Čistá, Jan Procerius, who also administered the parish of Kožlany.

He came of age in 1662 and took possession of his father's inheritance himself. Oto Jiří of Helversen, lord of Krakovec, at once secured on his estate 3,000 guilders which the young Týřovský owed him for gold objects, diamonds and rubies. In 1676 he additionally bought the village of Třímaný – from Norbert Miseroni, who sold it off from the Krašov estate – and in the same year dismissed from his service the burgrave Daniel Vlašimský, formerly a Prague burgher, to whom he remained in debt for 500 guilders.

Like his father he held the office of captain of the Rakovník district. The chronicle of the Plasy monastery records him in this capacity on 13 November 1681, when together with Count Štampach, captain of the Plzeň district, he was royal commissioner at the election of Abbot Ondřej Trojer. The same chronicle states that the Plasy monk Leopold Miškovský was in March 1688 given to “mladým pánům baronům Týřovským” (the young lords, the barons Týřovský) as prefect in Prague, where he himself studied law; another Plasy priest, Kandid Ungar, spent seventeen years with Vojtěch Ignác at Chříč as domestic chaplain.

He attempted to bring the people of Kožlany into complete subjection: he asked them to hand over all their privileges for inspection, and when after several years he did not return them, the burghers saw through their lord's ruse and complained to the Bohemian chamber. On the order of the regional captain he returned their charters to them in 1680. During his rule seven Kožlany subjects abandoned their holdings and fled. When the people of Čistá claimed annual fairs and a toll in 1680, the people of Kožlany opposed both the fairs and the toll, and their hereditary lord maintained that Břežanská hora belonged to him, since his ancestors had bought it from Albrecht Jindřich of Kolovrat.

To the church at Milíčov, where his grandfather lay, he had a tower added in 1665 and provided an altar.

He died in 1695 and was buried in the church at Milíčov. He left behind a widow, Kateřina Magdalena, née Countess of Brandenburg, the sons Jan Vilém, Michal Antonín and František Pavel, and the daughters Anna Barbora and Polyxena Lidmila. Chříč was inherited by Michal Antonín, who was not of age and therefore remained under the guardianship of his elder brother Jan Vilém. The widow at once dismissed Jan Kautský, who had been burgrave there for thirteen years; when Kautský secured a position with Diviš of Helversen at Krakovec, Jan Vilém refused to release his sick wife Barbora with her two children and had them imprisoned.

Because of their great debts the Týřovský brothers sold the Chříč estate in 1701 to Count Václav Josef Lažanský of Buková at Manětín for 211,000 guilders and 300 guilders of key money. The deed of sale names the village of Chříč with the manor house and two farmsteads, a brewery, a granary, the town of Kožlany, the villages of Studená, Hlince, Třímaný, Holovousy, Hedčany, Milíčov, Slatina and Lhota, the manors with sheepfolds of Ptíč, Březsko and Dubjany, and a mill with a powder house and a vineyard near the town of Louny. Each of the brothers reserved five persons for himself, and all of them agreed to pay their mother Kateřina Magdalena 300 guilders a year. Sedláček adds that at that time debts of 69,450 Rhenish guilders were secured on the estate, and enumerates what it then comprised: the manor house and village of Chříč with a farmstead, the villages of Slatina, Lhota, Holovousy, Hlince and Studená, the manor and village of Březsko, the manor at Ptíč, the manor of Dubjany, Milíčov with the patronage, Hedčany, Třímany, Bělbožice, the town of Kožlany with the patronage and the deserted village of Dolany. “Tak Týřovští po stu letech Chříč opustili.” (Thus the Týřovskýs left Chříč after a hundred years.) That the new lords were already residing at Chříč by the end of 1701 is shown by the Plasy chronicle: from 19 November 1701 a chaplain served there “u hraběnky Lažanské na Chříči” (with Countess Lažanská at Chříč).

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