Abensberg (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Abensberg
Scheibler's Wappenbuch 1450–1480

Remains of Abensberg Castle

Counts of Abensberg (also Abensberger ) were a Bavarian noble family from the 12th to the 15th century.

They are not to be confused with the Franconian Counts of Abenberg and the Austrian Counts of Abensperg and Traun .

history

They are presumably descendants of the Counts of Ebersberg on the paternal side and descendants of the Babones on the maternal side . They ruled Abensberg and the surrounding area as well as Altmannstein . In addition, the Counts of Abensberg had relationships with the dioceses of Bamberg and Passau . The Abensbergers were increasingly restricted in their power by the Bavarian dukes, and in 1485 the last Abensberger, Niclas von Abensberg , was murdered by Seitz the Frauenberger near Freising. Thus, the possessions of the Counts of Abensberg fell to the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich .

In 1653 the Upper Austrian lords of Traun were given over by Emperor Ferdinand III. Raised the status of imperial count under the name of Abensperg and Traun when the imperial chancellery expressly confirmed a genealogical link to the Bavarian counts of Abensberg, who died out around 1480, due to the similarity of the coats of arms. War Commissioner General Count Ernst von Abensperg and Traun (1608–1668) was therefore enfeoffed (briefly) with the rule of Abensberg by Emperor Leopold I during the time of the Austrian occupation during the War of the Spanish Succession .

Personalities

• Konrad I von Abensberg , Archbishop of Salzburg (1106–1147), belongs to the Abenberg family
• Theoderich von Abensberg , Bishop of Regensburg (1381-1383)
• Johann von Abensberg, founder of the Abensberg monastery
• Niclas von Abensberg (1441–1485), the last Abensberger, see also Abensbergerdenkmal

Tribe list

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Ulrich von Abensberg

1. Ulrich von Abensberg
2. Wernhart von Abensberg

literature

• Adam Rottler: Abensberg through the ages. Self-published, Abensberg 1972.
• Franz Tyroller:  Abensberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 17 ( digitized version ).
• Genealogical pocket book of the Count's houses 4th year, 1828, pp. 3–4
• Peter Dollinger and Nicolaus Stark (eds.): The counts and imperial lords of Abensberg . Landshut 1869. ( E-copy ).
• Joseph Ernst v. Koch-Sternfeld: The long-celebrated dynasty of Babo von Abensberg; in their ancestry, ramifications and general cooperative, in Bavaria and Austria . Regensburg 1837. ( e-copy )
• Karl Heinrich v. Lang: About the fable of Count Babo von Abensberg's thirty sons . Munich 1813. ( E-copy ).

Web links

Commons : Abensberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adam Rottler, Abensberg im Wandel der Zeiten, pp. 23–31, 353.