Christof David von Graben zum Stein

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Coat of arms of the Von Graben in Carniola, Carinthia, East Tyrol and a branch in Styria, Scheibler's Wappenbuch
Stein Castle in the Drautal

Christof David von Graben zum Stein (also incorrectly called Hans Christof von Graben zum Stein ) († 1664 in Innsbruck ) was a Tyrolean nobleman of Carinthian descent. He was the last of his family to freely own the Stein estate and Stein Castle in Carinthia .

Life

Christof David's parents were Hans Christof von Graben zum Stein († 1628) from the second Tyrolean line of the Lords of Graben and Magdalena von Katzenloher-Fraburg. His father was a grandson of Barthlmä von Graben and a great-grandson of Virgil von Graben . About the legacy of his mother came into the possession of David Christof Fragsburg in Villanders .

A document says that Christof David was considered noble since November 20, 1571 [it is probably meant here that he belonged to the Tyrolean nobility in 1571]. Christof David was an office clerk and master stinger in Innsbruck. In Innsbruck he came into possession of several townhouses, in 1608 he came into the possession of the Weinhart house at Stiftgasse 11. From 1609 to 1614 he owned the Fieger houses at Maria-Theresien-Strasse 35. Furthermore Christof David acquired the town house Czichna-Haus in Stiftgasse 23 in 1639 .

Christof David left two or three daughters, including probably Anna Juliana von Graben zum Stein, who married Baltasar von Wohlgeschaffen , the sub-captain of Tyrol. Christof von Graben litigated his stepbrother Hans Vasoldt for the surrender of silver jewelery and in 1655 acquired the Pintergut in Oberlienz .

Inheritance disputes over the rule of Stein

After the death of Christof David, an inheritance dispute broke out over the Stein dominion, which had high tax debts , because Von Graben of the Third Tyrolean Line , descended from Georg von Graben, a son of Virgil von Graben , and the Lords of Lamberg made inheritance claims on Stein. Christof David's great cousin Hans [Johann] Karl von Graben, husband of Helene von Mörl and captain (head) of the Tyrolean militia , had tried to acquire the inheritance from Innsbruck while he was still alive. When Hans Karl inquired about the exact relationship to the Von Graben von Stein remaining in Carinthia, he (I have to) had to hear the most painful, it was said that von Graben who lived in Tyrol were bastards who had emigrated from Carinthia . Hans Karl therefore set up an exact family tree in which he could clearly be viewed as a descendant of Virgil von Graben. After careful research, he realized that at that time, as reasons of age, he did not seem to have acted as a fiefdom recipient, but his son Lukas, the older brother of Hans Karl's father Georg von Graben. Thus, Hans Karl was only a side relative of the first fief recipient and, according to the succession, was not entitled to inheritance, since only direct descendants of Lukas von Graben zum Stein, but also those of his brother Bartlmä von Graben, were entitled to inheritance. The inheritance fell back to the Habsburg sovereigns, since the Lamberger were only related to the Von Graben zum (von) Stein through the female line.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google books: Kärntner Burgenkunde: References to sources and literature on the historical and legal position of castles, palaces and residences in Carinthia and their owners. P. 142
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva (1948): "Brixen - Reichsfürstentum und Hofstaat". Digitized in: Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Graben von Stein (registration required)
  3. ↑ Granichstaedten-Czerva, Rudolf - "Old Innsbruck town houses and their owners", 4 vols., Sensen-Verlag, Vienna 1962–1966.
  4. ↑ Der Schlern - Volume 62, Part 2, 1988, page 501
  5. ↑ Kärntner Burgenkunde: References to sources and literature on the historical and legal position of castles, palaces and residences in Carinthia and their owners , p. 142. By Franz Xaver Kohla, Gustaf Adolf von Metnitz, Gotbert Moro (Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, 1973)
  6. ↑ Carinthia I., volumes 163-165
  7. ↑ Carinthia I., volumes 163-165
personal data
SURNAME Digging for the stone, Christof David von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grabenstein, Christof David Graben von; Digging to the stone, Hans Christof von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. von Stein
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1664
Place of death innsbruck