Henry's sons and the division of the family (1556–1578)

While their father was still alive, the brothers learned of a plot being prepared in their neighbourhood. Jiřík of Entenšlank, the revenue scribe at Křivoklát, and Jetřich Valečský at Hřebečníky offered fifteen schocks of groschen in 1555 to Jiřík Plocar and Jakub Pokner of Kožlany for murdering their kinsman Kilián. The Týřovský brothers learned of the agreement and summoned both lords to court over those fifteen schocks that had been agreed.

Jindřich died in 1556 and left four sons – Jan, Albrecht, Jobst and Jiřík. Hardly had the father died when Václav Mašťovský, to whom Lorenc Šlik had transferred his right of redemption in 1537, took possession of the Týřov property. The brothers resisted, because Mašťovský was unable to deposit the redemption money. Only in 1558, when Mašťovský died, did the court find in favour of the Týřovský brothers, and King Ferdinand issued them a charter that Týřov with its appurtenances could not be redeemed by anyone during their lifetimes. In doing so he reserved for himself all hunting of deer and wild boar. The list of royal pledges of 1590 dates the charter to the Monday after St Martin's, that is 14 November 1558, and sums it up in the words “Gebrüdern Teyrzowsken Ablösung des Schlosses Teyrzow auf vier Leibe” (to the Týřovský brothers, redemption of Týřov Castle upon four lives) – Týřov could not be redeemed as long as any of the four brothers was alive.

Because of their disagreement the brothers divided the property that same year, 1558. Albrecht took Týřov and Kožlany, Jan took Broumy, Hudlice and Kouřimec, Jiřík took Hřebečníky and Chmelištná, and Jobst took Skryje, Tytry, two settled peasants in Kožlany and the fishpond above the town. When Albrecht died in 1571, Kožlany passed to Jobst.

The brothers also took turns in the office of regional captain: according to the surviving list, the captain of the Rakovník district was in 1566 Albrecht “na Týřově” (at Týřov), in 1568 Jobst “na Týřově” and in 1570 Jiří “na Hřebečníkách” (at Hřebečníky). Jan took part in person in the campaign of Maximilian II against the Turks in Hungary in 1566, and on 7 October 1566 he received in the field camp a letter of safe conduct so that he might set out for home with the emperor's permission. In 1571 Jiřík was elected for the lordly estate of the Rakovník district to the commission that was to draw up, together with the regional captains, a register of all settled holders for the land tax. On 7 November 1572 Jobst bought from Eva Vršová of Lažany for 270 schocks of Bohemian groschen the Voříšek house on the Old Town Square in Prague; after his death his nephew Jan sold it in 1575 to Vilém Sviták of Landštejn for 300 schocks.

Jobst immediately afterwards evicted his subject Jiřík Zubr, called Trygl, and ordered him to move out of Kožlany; he settled the farmstead with another husbandman. Zubr disobeyed the order and complained about Týřovský to the royal chamber. The chamber called upon the burgomasters of Rakovník, Jesenice and Kralovice to appraise his property jointly, but Jobst was not satisfied with the appraisal and sent his officials and gamekeepers to evict Jiřík by force. In a bloody brawl Zubr was seized, thrown into the town gaol and delivered to Rakovník.

Zikmund Winter, who worked up the dispute from the Rakovník archives, describes its beginning differently. According to him the brawl between Zubr and the manorial officials took place in the week after St Bartholomew's 1570, and its cause was a debt: Jobst is said to have “pro nějaký dluh týral až k zoufalstvu a utiskoval velmi” (tormented Zubr to the point of despair over some debt and oppressed him greatly), and when the subject came to beg him to “zlehčil” (lighten) the debt, he sent him word that he would send him to the Rakovník gaol or “že mu dá na krk okovali těžký obojek železný, aby s ním chodil a robotil” (that he would have a heavy iron collar riveted round his neck, so that he would walk about and do his labour service in it). From the shed of the Kožlany reeve, where he had been locked up, Zubr escaped when his red-haired son Jiříček brought him a knife and a mattock, and by March 1571 he was already hiding in the Křivoklát forests.

He soon broke out of prison, roamed the forests, kept coming to Kožlany, robbed and killed his successor Kryštof Halík, and declared plunder and damage against the town and against Lord Jobst. He was therefore pronounced a dangerous declared enemy, and the people of Rakovník offered fifteen schocks for his capture. Zubr joined with several rogues; they caught eight cats, tied sulphur and powder to the back of each, carried them in a sack to Kožlany, set them alight and released them through the town – but the burghers kept watch and partly killed, partly caught the cats. The rogues then set fire to Týřovský's village of Broumy and to the sheepfold of Kryštof of Kolovrat in Všesulov, plundered the surrounding churches and attacked people on the roads. Two of Zubr's companions were caught and executed in Rakovník in 1573; Zubr himself was seized only in Leipzig, the Saxon elector had him transported to Ústí, and in August 1574 he was beheaded at Pohořelec. Winter closes the whole story sharply: “Nejčistěji ze všeho vyvázl pan Jošt Tejřovský, jenž všeho odpovídání Tryglova hlavní původ byl; jeho měšec neutrpěl nijakého ourazu. On nepodepsal nic, neplatil nic a zbrojné lidi musili poddaní jeho Kozlanští na svůj groš vypraviti sami. Moudrý pán!” (Lord Jobst Týřovský, who was the chief cause of all Trygl's feud, came out of it cleanest of all; his purse suffered no injury whatever. He signed nothing, paid nothing, and his subjects of Kožlany had to fit out the armed men themselves at their own expense. A wise lord!)

The church in Kožlany burned down in August 1430, when the Taborites were besieging Libštejn and half the town went up in flames. It then lay in ruins for some hundred and forty years – only around 1571 did Jobst have it repaired, and of the Gothic building only the presbytery and the walls in the foundations remained. He did not complete the work in his lifetime, the keystone above the altar kept a shield without the patron's coat of arms, and he was buried in the church in 1574, which thus became the burial place of the family.

Jan and Jobst died in 1574. Only the fourth brother, Jiřík at Hřebečníky, remained alive, together with his nephew Jan, Jobst's son, who resided at Skryje. Jan summoned his uncle to court to have the share after his deceased uncles assigned to him, and Jiřík ceded to him Hudlice, Broumy, Chmelištná, two hereditary men in Kožlany and one cottager. They were to stock the fishpond above the town jointly, and on the sale of the fish Jan was to take three parts of the money and Jiřík one part; should the Týřov estate come to be redeemed, they were to share the money between them. Jan was not satisfied, and so the agreement was amended in 1578: Jiřík assigned to him a further three subjects in Tytry and half a meadow below Čertova skála, and 1250 schocks were allotted to him from the redemption of the estate.

Kožlany remained in the family's hands even after the division: Jiřík held the town together with Hřebečníky. He died some time between 1578 and 1583, for in 1583 his nephew Jan already appears as the collator of the church at Kožlany, Hřebečníky and Kožlany having passed to him. The family lost the town only in 1588, when King Rudolf granted it hereditarily to Jan the Elder of Lobkovice in exchange for the ruined Týřov.

The family, however, never lived to see that redemption. As early as 27 September 1575 the diet gave its consent for the emperor to sell to Jan the Elder of Lobkovice “panství Tajřovské s jeho příslušenstvím … k dědictví prodati ráčil” (the Týřov estate with its appurtenances … as hereditary property), and in the same year King Maximilian registered the Týřov estate to Lobkovic at Točník for eight thousand thalers, on condition that he came to terms with Týřovský and that the Bohemian estates consented to the pledge. In January 1577 Jiřík was still among the lords of the Rakovník district who were summoned to the ceremonial ride out to meet the body of the deceased emperor, and he still wrote his name “na Tejřově” (at Týřov); in the same year, however, he sold his right to Týřov to Lobkovic for 1,250 schocks and kept only the village of Újezdec hereditarily and Týřovičky for life. In the division with their uncle Jan the brothers had moreover kept in joint possession the “hory rtuťové a cinobrové” (mercury and cinnabar mines). Lobkovic paid the money to Jiřík in 1577 and the estates gave their consent in 1578. After a hundred years the family thus lost the castle from which it took its name. By then no one had lived at Týřov for several years, and so the castle fell into decay.

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