Filip Fabricius
Filip Fabricius, later of Rosenfeld and Hohenfall was a Bohemian Catholic officer best known for being thrown out of the Prague Castle window during the Third Defenestration of Prague with two Czech Catholic noblemen, Count Jaroslav Bořita of Martinice and Count Vilém Slavata of Chlum and Košumberk.
Early life
Filip Fabricius was born in Mikulov, Moravia. In later records Georg Fabricius, a German poet and humanist, was considered his grandfather. He studied at Prague Jesuit Academy and became a Bachelor in 1588 and Master a year later. He wrote ceremonial speeches and interpreted. In 1598 he got profitably married to Judita Podmanická, the only living descendant to a rich Prague trader. He became a citizen of the Old Town and there is a later record that he might have been a secretary to Adam of Šternberk. Supported by Zdeněk Vojtěch Popel, Prince of Lobkowicz he became the second and then the first secretary of the German expedition of the Bohemian Court Chancery, the highest office in Bohemia. In 1608 he got the predicate of Rosenfeld from Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.Defenestration
On 23 May 1618 Filip Fabricius was present in the offices of the Bohemian Court Chancery on Prague Castle together with Catholic Lords Regent Jaroslav Bořita of Martinice, Vilém Slavata of Chlum and Košumberk, Adam of Šternberk and Děpolt of Lobkowicz when armed Protestant Lords arrived and required confessions of guilt for the anti-Protestant policies of the king. Slavata and Martinice were found guilty and thrown out of the windows. Since the hated royal secretary Pavel Michna was not present, the Protestant Lords decided to punish the other secretary – Filip Fabricius. Only Slavata was seriously wounded by the fall; Martinice and Fabricius escaped with light injuries. Fabricius left Prague immediately and went to Vienna.Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title Baron von Hohenfall.