William of Roggendorf
Wilhelm Freiherr von Roggendorf (* 1481; † 25 August 1541) was an Austrian military officer, commander and Hofmeister (official).
He was the son of Kaspar von Roggendorf, and therefore a member of the old von Roggendorf family of Styria, which ruled Lower Austria from the middle of the fifteenth century.
Wilhelm von Roggendorf served in the Habsburgs from 1491 onwards. He was Statenus of Friesland between 1517 and 1520, and in the second half of the 1520s he was preceptor of the then Archduke Ferdinand. During the Siege of Vienna in 1529 by the Turks, he served as commander of the heavy cavalry under the command of his brother-in-law Nicholas of Salm (1459-1530). In the following years it played an influential role in the Austrian court like Obersthofmeister (Greater Butler). He resigned in 1539, but returned as commander of the imperial forces in Buda during his siege (1541) by the Turks, which ended in disaster, falling the city into their hands. Von Roggendorf was wounded during the battle and died two days later as a result of his wounds.
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