Adam Jindřich (Adam Henry) Týřovský of Einsiedl (died 1652)

Adam Jindřich was a minor at his father's death in 1618, which probably saved him. In 1621 he was indeed summoned before the confiscation commission, but because he was not of legal age he did not appear to a twofold summons; only in 1629 was he acquitted before the commissio tractationis, since he had not personally taken part in the revolt, and his father's estates of Chříč, Hřebečníky, Broumy and Kožlany were left to him. The commission did find his father guilty, but left the estates to the under-age son. The Chříč property then comprised the villages of Chříč, Slatina, Lhotka, two subjects in Holovousy, Hlince, Studená, Milíčov and Hedčany, the manors of Březsko and Dubjany and the deserted villages of Dolany and Bělbožice.

In the meantime his guardian Bohuslav Jiří Krakovský managed Chříč badly. In 1624 Dorota Týřovská sued him for impoverishing the orphans, for carrying off and selling grain, cattle and other things.

In 1627 Adam Jindřich came of age and took possession of the indebted estates; he managed them with his official Václav Kulíšek. In order to be able to cultivate the devastated estate, he borrowed 2,800 schocks from Vilém of Klenové at Zvíkovec. When the term expired in 1631 and he could not pay, the creditor took possession of the Chříč estate. Týřovský rid himself of the debt by taking Vilém's daughter Eva Eurosina of Klenové as his wife; she bought from her father the town of Zvíkovec and the village of Chlum. According to Sedláček, Vilém of Klenové bought Zvíkovec in 1633 from Václav Heraklius of Blizivo in fact already for his married daughter.

In the same year 1631 the Saxons burst into Rakovník, and Týřovský was subsequently accused of having welcomed Captain Ploskovský on the square, of having engaged himself to him as a cavalry captain, of riding about the district with his wife, supplying the Saxons with news, skirmishing with the imperial troops and threatening Catholic Plzeň. The burghers of Rakovník, on the contrary, testified that he had not been in the town and that his subjects had merely brought things there from Chříč and hidden them from the enemy. Because of the uncertainty of the evidence he was pardoned in 1638 and sentenced only to a fine of 3,000 Rhenish guilders, of which 2,000 were given for the building of Prague Castle and 1,000 for the building of the Jesuit college in Klatovy. The money was lent to him by the Prague burgher Martin Leibinger, to whom he ceded the manor in Holovousy in settlement. Bílek dates the whole procedure: the royal procurator accused him before the Friedland confiscation commission on 15 November 1632, the revision commission proposed a pardon on 12 August 1638, and the imperial resolution confirmed it on 14 December 1638 on condition that he “místo pokuty, za provinění své zasloužilé, 3000 zl. rýn. na hotově složil” (paid down 3,000 Rhenish guilders in cash in place of the fine deserved for his offence); 2,000 guilders were allotted to the building of Prague Castle by a resolution of 30 December 1638 and the remaining 1,000 were given to the Jesuits on 10 January 1639.

In the meantime Chříč bore the burden of supplying the army. From the end of January 1638 his petition for a reduction of the contribution for the estates of Chříč and Zvíkovec has survived: he had already handed over to the soldiers 3,131 guilders 14 kreuzers, 44,929 pounds of meat, 740 strychs of rye, 451 strychs of wheat and 1,661 strychs of oats, while he owed 394 guilders 45 kreuzers on the Budějovice contribution. The district commissioner Skuhrovský recommended remitting four fifths of the arrears, and so it was decided on 4 May 1638.

From 1640 to 1644 he was himself captain of the Rakovník district, together with Jan Ferdinand Renšperger of Renšperk. On 26 December 1640 the two of them wrote from Rakovník “cito, cito, citissime” to the vice-regents that the commissioner Rossi de Dateli had brought four infantry regiments into the war-ravaged district without their knowledge; in June 1642 they reported nine of Suys's regiments with artillery and three regiments of Croats in Rakovník.

The war rolled over Chříč twice more. In 1637 enemy armies were ranging through the neighbourhood and burned Chříč, so that Adam Jindřich stayed in Prague, where he bought a house from the tax registrar Kačerovský. In March 1640 the imperial colonel Václav Zahrádecký marched with two regiments to Podmokly, burned everything and pressed on across the ford towards Chříč; Týřovský raised 300 guilders for the fire ransom and thus rid himself of the enemy.

The burden of war did not end there. In 1641 sixteen imperial regiments were concentrated in the Rakovník district, and Chříč, along with Libyně, Šípy and Podmokly, had to supply 512 pounds of bread each for their subsistence, as many pints of beer and 256 pounds of meat, while Kožlany supplied 320 pounds of bread, as much beer and 160 pounds of meat. The following year the captain of Zbiroh reported to the Bohemian chamber that some peasants, driven by hunger, were attaching themselves to the soldiers quartered in Kožlany – leading them to the manorial strongholds and threshing grain for them to keep starvation at bay.

He died towards the end of May 1652; he had drawn up his last will on 29 April 1652, calling the estate in it “na nejvýš zruinirovaný” (ruined to the utmost). In it he directed that his body be clothed in unmangled white linen and buried without any pomp in the church at Kožlany, to which he bequeathed 500 schocks so that a sung mass might be celebrated every month for the salvation of his soul. At the funeral all the poor subjects were to receive alms of six kreuzers each and a piece of meat for dinner, ten poor men a suit of cloth and another ten a suit of black linen. The greatly ruined Chříč estate went to his son Vojtěch Ignác, the widow Eva Eurosina received 20,000 schocks, and should she not be paid out, she was meanwhile to take over the manor of Ptíč, the Lejskov mill and the villages of Hlince and Studená; his daughter Kateřina Dorota was allotted a dowry of 6,000 guilders and a trousseau. The debts amounted to 11,500 guilders.

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