Anna von Graben

Coat of arms of the Styrian Von Graben on Kornberg, Johann Siebmachersche Wappentafel

Coat of arms of the Barons von Stadl on Kornberg and Obermarburg with the coat of arms of the Lords of Graben

Anna von Graben auf Kornberg († 1564 at Schloss Kornberg ) was a noblewoman from the ancient Austrian family of those von Graben von Stein . It came from the branch of Kornberg Castle that immigrated from Carniola to Styria and was the last of the Stein von Stein moats located there. After her death, the important lords of Kornberg and Marburg passed into the possession of their atonement, the lords of Stadl .

Biographical

Anna came from the marriage of the Protestant nobleman Wilhelm von Graben and Magdalena von Stubenberg . She was the youngest of four children and the last representative of both the Kornberger and the Styrian family branches of the Lords of Graben. Anna found her first husband in 1539 in Christoph Stadler (von Stadl) († 1552), a son of the knight Bernhard Stadler and Anna Graf von Schermberg and Rastatt . Christoph Stadler was by Emperor Maximilian I to Ritter been beaten. This marriage resulted in four children: Elisabeth, Maximilian, Wolfgang (all three died early) and Carl, who, still unmarried, died in 1576 and his goods, the Stadlerische and Grabnerischen [ explained in more detail below ], to his two cousins ​​Erasmus and Franz Stadler inherited. After Stadler's death, Anna married Wolfgang von Hohenwart (also Hohenwarter ) around 1556 ; he was appointed forest master of Styria by Emperor Maximilian and died at Oberradkersburg Castle.

When Anna's brother Andrä von Graben, the last male Kornberger Von Graben, died in 1556 , she inherited the entire estate, which she was able to assert vigorously against the inheritance claims of Andras brother-in-law Georg von Kainach. Anna died in 1564 and is buried in the parish church of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab . In the will drawn up a week before her death, she named her three sons Maximilian, Wolfgang and Carl as universal heirs. The Graben goods Kornberg , Marburg , Obermarburg and Marburg Castle , Oberradkersburg Rohrbach , Grabenhofen , Liechtenberg and Krottenhofen came into the possession of the Lords of Stadl in this way. Since Emperor Maximilian saw the lords of Stadl as the legal heirs of the lords of Graben in Anna's lifetime, in the same year he allowed the three lords of Stadl to combine their coat of arms with that of the lords of Graben (the funerary with the upright spade).

literature

• Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51. Jg., 1960, ISSN  0437-5890 , pp. 42-94, here pp. 82-84 and p. 93.