Anna (Waldburg House)

Truchsessin Anna von Waldburg (* after 1362 , † around 1429 ) was a member of the lower Swabian nobility. She was the daughter of Johannes II von Waldburg († 1424) and belonged to a family that successfully managed to maintain and expand her position in the 15th century.

family

The Waldburg Truchsesse has been documented since the middle of the 12th century. Originally a ministerial , in the late Middle Ages they managed to rise to the lower Swabian nobility and, through clever economic and marriage policies, later also to rise to the high nobility.

Anna came from her father's first marriage, which he had entered into with Countess Elisabeth von Habsburg-Laufenburg around 1362 . She was a half-sister of the Truchsess Jakob I von Trauchburg (called the Golden Knight ), Eberhard I. zu Scheer and Friedberg (the later Count of Sonnenberg (1424–1479)) and of Georg von Waldburg-Zeil . One of her half-sisters was Ursula von Starkenberg , who married into one of the most powerful noble families in the County of Tyrol. Another half-sister Verena von Waldburg married the well-known " feud entrepreneur " Hans von Rechberg .

Through the marriages of her half-brothers and other half-sisters, Anna was related by marriage to some other important Swabian noble families (Counts of Werdenberg and Montfort , Lords of Klingenberg ).

Anna was married twice. Her first husband was Heinrich von Montfort-Tettnang , a son of Count Heinrich V von Montfort-Tettnang, the brother of Count Rudolf von Montfort-Tettnang, whose mother Adelheid, like her mother, was also a Countess of Habsburg-Laufenburg. From this marriage she had at least two children:

• Clara (* around / after 1393 ), she later entered a monastery
• a son whose name has not been recorded

Her second husband, whom she married in Konstanz in 1397 (or, according to some internet information, not until 1408) , was Stephan von Gundelfingen (Niedergundelfingen line), called von Derneck (around 1385 - June 13, 1428), who was owned by the Count of Hewen descended. From this marriage, too, she had several children, including sons Wilhelm and Degenhart. One of them married a woman from the family of Count von Lupfen . Wilhelm von Gundelfingen (her son or grandson) belonged to the guardianship council of the Urach line of the county of Württemberg in 1450 .

Life

Anna married count Heinrich von Montfort-Tettnang in 1393 (that year she was given 1,500 guilders as a morning gift, a morning gift that was topped up later). After his death, she married Stephan von Gundelfingen-Derneck, whose family belonged to the great Swabian noble houses. In 1408 Anna and her children were raised to the baron status by King Ruprecht .

Stephan von Gundelfingen-Derneck bought the village and castle Neufra in 1399 , which subsequently became the family's headquarters. Around 1414 he brought Hohengundelfingen, the ancestral castle of his family, which had been sold to the Habsburgs in the 13th century , back into his possession as pledge. The sons Wilhelm and Degenhart also succeeded in buying back the town of Hayingen, which had also belonged to the original Gundelfinger property, in 1442.

literature

• Joseph Vochezer: History of the Princely House of Waldburg in Swabia , 1888, Vol. 1, pp. 379–496