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奥斯瓦尔德·冯·沃尔肯施泰因（Oswald von Wolkenstein）意大利作曲家，诗人与外交官。小时候便离开家庭成为了一名游侠骑士的随从，之后的14年时间，他周游了许多地方：克里特、普鲁士、克里米亚、土耳其、法国、隆巴蒂、西班牙等。父亲去世后与兄长争夺城堡遗产的所有权，并因拒绝支付某些款项而得罪了一个叫马丁·雅戈尔的骑士。1414年奥斯瓦尔德短暂在蒂罗尔担任奥地利的腓特烈四世的随从，之后成为了一名外交官，服务于神圣罗马帝国皇帝西吉斯蒙德与匈牙利国王。1417年后他返回蒂罗尔，腓特烈四世因在康斯坦茨大公会议支持约翰二十二世，被西吉斯蒙德颁下皇室禁制。奥斯瓦尔德遂在当地加入反抗腓特烈四世的组织，却不幸中了旧情人设下的圈套被抓，抓住他的人正是马丁·雅戈尔，在承诺递交赎金并许诺不再复仇后奥斯瓦尔德被腓特烈四世释放。马丁·雅戈尔本期待在城堡与奥斯瓦尔德了清之前的遗产欠款以及这次的赎金，没想到奥斯瓦尔德骑马逃回了匈牙利。由于西吉斯蒙德同时交战的敌人过多，他最终与腓特烈四世选择停战。奥斯瓦尔德过上了几年安稳的日子，他在一家修道院整理他自己的作品手稿。随着蒂罗尔被平定腓特烈四世又想起了奥斯瓦尔德，他设法再次抓住了奥斯瓦尔德并将他关押在因斯布鲁克城堡，这一次奥斯瓦尔德只能妥协，他赔偿了马丁·雅戈尔的欠款并保证不与任何外来贵族接触。不过奥斯瓦尔德又食言了，他再次离开了蒂罗尔，回到了西吉斯蒙德的身边，成为了西吉斯蒙德龙骑士团的一员，并亲身参与了胡斯战争。腓特烈四世死后其独子（也叫西吉斯蒙德）只有12岁，堂兄奥地利大公腓特烈五世摄政并约定成人后将权力交回西吉斯蒙德手中，不过腓特烈五世食言了。蒂罗尔的民众准备起义，而奥斯瓦尔德再次出马，组织领导军队准备抵御腓特烈五世的进攻。不过腓特烈五世最后回心转意，经过在梅拉诺的谈判，最终将权力交还给了西吉斯蒙德，这场纷争最终以和平收场，而奥斯瓦尔德却由于高烧去世。他的坟墓在1973年被再次发现。
The late Mediaeval singer, composer and poet, usually portraied with a closed right eye, is connected to the Trostburg castle of Ponte Gardena.
Oswald von Wolkenstein was born around the year 1377, most probably in the Val Pusteria valley, and grew up at the Trostburg in Ponte Gardena, at the entrance to the Val Gardena. Oswald was a singer, composer and poet, who lived in the late Mediaeval era and was known far beyond the regional borders. He descended from the noble family of Villanders, who later on named themselves after Castel Wolkenstein in the Val Gardena valley. At the age of 10, he started an adventuresome vagrant life and travelled to the Near East, but returned to Tyrol in 1400.
As highly educated and widely travelled person, he was assumed at the Concil of Constance in the retainers of Siegmund von Luxemburg and was henceforth mediator between the kind and the aristocrats of Tyrol. Oswald inherited one third of the Castel Vecchio in Siusi, but he snagged all the incomes and was therefore involved in serious struggles. When these problems finally were resolved, he married a woman gave birth to his seven children. His life became a little more calm, but from time to time he was still involved in different quarrels.
In the years 1423/25, Oswald worked out his first booklet with more than 100 songs, today known as the “Handschrift A”. In the years to follow, there were the “Handschrift B“ as well as the “Innsbrucker Liederhandschrift”, all written on parchment. In 1445 Oswald von Wolkenstein died in Merano as highly estimated knight and one of the most significant aristocrats of Tyrol. In Selva Gardena, Wolkenstein in German, today there is a library named after Oswald von Wolkenstein. In Siusi, Fiè allo Sciliar and Castelrotto, every year there is the famous Oswald von Wolkenstein horse parade.
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