Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg

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Calendar sheet June, from the Psalter of Anna von Bolanden , with Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg's death note

Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg , also Albrecht I von Löwenstein († June 11, 1304 ), was Count von Löwenstein from 1283 and founder (1288) of the city of Murrhardt .

Life

Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg was the oldest illegitimate son of Rudolf von Habsburg I and accompanied him on his campaign against Ottokar . His maternal ancestors were probably the barons and taverns of Schenkenberg , based at Schenkenberg Castle in the canton of Aargau, in the Schenkenberg rule (see under literature). He married Mechthild von Württemberg (before 1264 to June 24, 1284, parents : Ulrich I von Graf Württemberg, the founder, (1226-1265) and Mechthild von Baden (1225-1258)). His father, Rudolf I, acquired the county of Löwenstein from the bishop of Würzburg, Berthold von Sternberg on August 15, 1281 and converted the county into an imperial fief . He then handed it over to his son Albrecht along with the castle near Wolfsölden . From 1283 he called himself Albrecht Graf von Löwenstein and adopted the coat of arms of the old Counts of Calw-Löwenstein, the striding lion on a mountain of three. In 1284 he married Luitgard von Bolanden and thereby acquired large estates on the Rhine, where he then stayed regularly in winter. In 1291 he received the Magenheim Castle and the town of Bönnigheim from his father . In a legal dispute that Eberhard von Landau led against him on the basis of inheritance claims of his wife because of the Grafschaft Löwenstein, Adolf von Nassau decided in his favor. In 1298 Albrecht I von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg fought with his younger half-brother Albrecht I von Habsburg in the battle of Göllheim . The victory, the death of Adolf von Nassau and the subsequent election of Albrecht I as Roman-German king strengthened his back. Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg was buried as Vogt in the monastery church of the Murrhardt Monastery in the newly chosen family burial place in the east choir in front of our frouwen altar .

On November 11, 1301, Euphemia Schenkin von Schenkenberg gave the Dominican convent Tulln (Lower Austria), founded by Rudolf I von Habsburg - where the half-brother of Löwenstein-Schenkenberg, Albrecht I (HRR), nine children who had died immediately after their birth Dreikönigskapelle was buried - for the salvation of her deceased husband Wilhelm, her daughter Agnes and granddaughter Gertrud, a courtyard and accessories.

Albrecht's sister-in-law, the Worms nun Anna von Bolanden († 1320), has noted the day of his death in her prayer book, which is now Codex Lichtenthal 37 in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.

family

He was 2. married to Luitgard von Bolanden, (2. ∞ Rudolf IV. Von Baden ) and had the children:

  • Luitgard von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg ∞ (before 1309) Ulrich von Asperg
  • Anna von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg ∞ Ulrich II († 1341) Count of Asperg and Beilstein
  • Albert (Albrecht) von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg (presumably)

literature

  • Otto von Alberti :  Löwenstein, Albrecht Graf v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 316 f.
  • Gerhard Fritz: Murrhardt Monastery in the Early and High Middle Ages. An abbey and the nobility to Murr and Kocher in: Württembergisch Franken 18 (1982)
  • Gerhard Fritz: On the history of the Counts of Löwenstein-Calw , in: Research on Württembergisch Franks 75
  • Gerhard Fritz: The history of the Grafschaft Löwenstein and the Counts Löwenstein-Habsburg , in: Researches Württembergisch Franken 29 (1986)
  • Gerhard Fritz: City and monastery Murrhardt in the late Middle Ages and in the Reformation period in: Researches Württembergisch Franken 34 (1990)

to Schenkenberg:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Maria Lichnowsky: History of the House of Habsburg Online Google Book Search
  2. ^ Otto von Alberti: Löwenstein, Albrecht Graf v .. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 316 f.
  3. ^ Gerhard Fritz: The history of the Grafschaft Löwenstein and the Counts Löwenstein-Habsburg , in: Württembergisch Franken 29 (1986) p. 260 f
  4. ↑ Ulrike Plate: The former Benedictine monastery of St. Januarius in Murrhardt Archeology and Building History 1996, p. 125
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht I of Löwenstein; Albrecht von Schenkenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Löwenstein
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1304