Bichelsee (noble family)
The lords of Bichelsee were an important and wealthy noble family , especially in Thurgau . Their family castles were in Bichelsee , which is part of today's municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil .
origin
Bichelsee came to Anno Domini 894 in the Middle Ages as Pichelense through a donation from the Udalrichinger to the monastery of St. Gallen . The noble von Bichelsee functioned since 1262 as dinner table of the Benedictine abbey in St. Gallen . It is assumed that the nobles of Bichelsee were related to the gentlemen of Elgg.
history
The noble family of Bichelsee built before resp. owned the Alt-Bichelsee castle since 1209 . From then on they determined the rule of Bichelsee for over a century and a half. At the beginning of the 13th century, the Lords of Bichelsee commanded the present-day community of Bichelsee-Balterswil and Aadorf to Elgg . The brothers Walter I and Eberhard I, mentioned by name in 1209, subsequently founded the two lines of the Bichelsee family. Eberhard I. founded the line remaining in Bichelsee, while the line Bichelsee-Landsberg descended from Walter I. The sister of Walters I and Eberhard I, Euphemia von Bichelsee, is attested from 1237 to 1262 as the abbess of the Schänis monastery . The nobles of Bichelsee did not belong to the high nobility, but to the so-called service nobility, under which they held a very respected position.
Eberhard I. together with his son Eberhard II. Founded the Tänikon monastery in 1250 , which was given rich gifts by the Bichelseern. Guta von Bichelsee, the daughter of Eberhard II, ruled the Tänikon monastery as abbess from around 1285 to 1305. Around the time the monastery was founded, the Neu-Bichelsee Castle was built, but it was destroyed by the Habsburgs in 1273 and was never rebuilt.
Later, the nobles of Bichelsee suffered from considerable financial difficulties, which is why Walter IV was forced to sell goods, lands and serfs first. In 1358 he even had to sell the castle at Bichelsee to Hermann IV von Landenberg-Greifensee.
The Landsberg line fared no better, since Landsberg Castle, built around 1250, was destroyed by Albrecht, a son of King Rudolf von Habsburg , under Walter II von Bichelsee-Landsberg .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Alt-Bichelsee plate. (No longer available online.) Canton Thurgau, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hermann Specker: History of the Catholic Parish Bichelsee . Ed .: Catholic parish office Bichelsee. 1956, p. from page 12 .
