Eberhard IV of Eberstein

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Grave slab of the monastery founder, Count Eberhard IV. Von Eberstein, Rosenthal Monastery, Palatinate

Eberhard IV. Von Eberstein , old census Eberhard II. Von Eberstein (* around 1190; † March 18, 1263 ) was a count from the south-west German noble family of the Ebersteiner , owner of the Stauf rule and founder of the Cistercian convent Rosenthal .

Origin and family

The family of the Lords of Eberstein was first mentioned in a document in 1085. Their ancestral castle Alt-Eberstein was in the area of ​​today's district Ebersteinburg of the city of Baden-Baden .

Eberhard IV of Eberstein was the son of Eberhard III. von Eberstein and his wife Kunigunde von Andechs .

The mother belonged to the Andechs-Meranians . About her, Eberhard IV was a cousin of St. Hedwig , as well as a cousin of Queen Gertrud of Hungary , whose daughter in turn is St. Elisabeth of Thuringia .

In the 12th century, the family came to large estates in the Ufgau and Kraichgau and built up an important rule in the northern Black Forest. Part of their property were fiefdoms of the Speyer diocese . The Cistercian monastery in Herrenalb (founded in 1148 by Count Berthold III, grandfather Eberhard IV, on the occasion of his return from the crusade) and the Benedictine convent Frauenalb (donated by father Count Eberhard III in 1180/85 ) existed as house monasteries .

Live and act

Eberhard IV shared his father's county of Eberstein with his brother Otto I. He inherited the North Palatinate rule of Stauf from his mother's marriage property, where the castle of the same name served as his residence. His first wife is not known by name. In his second marriage, Count Eberhard joined forces with Adelheid von Sayn , the widow of Count Gottfried III, who perished in the fifth crusade in 1218 . from Sponheim .

Both Ebersteiner brothers initially belonged to the following of the rebellious King Henry VII , but renounced him and supported his father Frederick II , with whom they stayed in Lombardy in 1236. From 1237 to 1239 Eberhard IV appears as governor in the Duchy of Styria and imperial governor in the Duchy of Austria . In the autumn of 1237, Emperor Friedrich II sent him with 200 knights to secure Vienna . Later, in the conflict between Wilhelm von Holland and Conrad IV , Eberstein stood up for the latter.

In 1241, Count Eberhard IV and his wife founded the Rosenthal nunnery on the territory of their Stauf rule and left him generous income.

In 1258 he donated the half of the village Rüppurr that belonged to him to the Herrenalb monastery .

Eberhard IV von Eberstein died in March 1263 and was buried in the Rosenthal monastery that he founded. This was dissolved in 1572 during the Reformation and it fell into ruin. There, the historian Johann Friedrich Schannat (1683–1739) discovered his no longer known and damaged grave slab on the Gospel side of the old altar of the church. Today it is attached to the inner north wall of the church ruin.

The widow Adelheid von Eberstein geb. von Sayn confirmed in May 1263 all spiritual gifts from her two spouses and is said to have died at the end of the year. She was buried in the Himmerod monastery.

children

Your daughter Agnes III. von Eberstein married Heinrich II. von Saarbrücken-Zweibrücken , whereby the rule of Stauf and monastery Rosenthal fell to this family. Their daughter Kunigunde († before 1283) became the first abbess of Rosenthal, who also joined the convent to the Cistercian order .

The son Eberhard V. von Eberstein, married to Elisabeth, the daughter of Margrave Hermann V. von Baden , died in 1253, before his parents.

Grave slab Raugraf Heinrich I († 1261), Monastery Rosenthal, Pfalz (nephew of the monastery founder)

Siblings and environment

Eberhard's brother Konrad von Eberstein († 1245) officiated as Bishop of Speyer .

His sister Hedwig married Raugraf Rupert I. Their sons were Raugrafen Eberhard I († 1277) and Friedrich I († 1283), both bishops of Worms , and Heinrich I († 1261), founder of the Neu Baumburg family line . Bishop Eberhard I. consecrated the monastery church in Rosenthal, founded by his uncle, on May 22nd, 1261. When Heinrich I died in October 1261, he was buried in the newly consecrated church. His grave slab is preserved there. According to the Regensburger Chronicle of Carl Theodor Common he was the knight with Duchess Maria of Brabant held an exchange of letters, which is why these out of unfounded jealousy, 1256 on the orders of her husband Ludwig the Severe of Bavaria was beheaded.

Agnes, another sister of Eberhard IV von Eberstein, married Count Friedrich II von Leiningen . Their children were Friedrich III. von Leiningen († 1287), builder of Neuleiningen Castle , Emich IV. von Leiningen († 1281), founder of the city of Landau in the Palatinate , Berthold von Leiningen († 1285), Bishop of Bamberg and Heinrich von Leiningen , Bishop of Speyer ( † 1272).

literature

  • Rainer Hennl: Gernsbach in the Murgtal. Structures and developments ... , Stuttgart 2006
  • Cornelia Renger-Zorn: The Ebersteiners , Rastatt 2011
  • Adolph Köllner: History of the rule Kirchheim-Boland and Stauf , Wiesbaden, 1854, pp. 133-138; (Digital scan)
  • Georg H. Krieg von Hochfelden: History of the Counts of Eberstein in Swabia , Karlsruhe, 1836, pp. 31–36; (Digital scan)
  • Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836, pp. 275–279; (Digital scan)
  • Thomas Bohn: Countess Mechthild von Sayn (1200 / 03-1285): a study on Rhenish history and culture , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2002, p. 55 u. 56, ISBN 3412109010 ; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver von Wegele: Eberstein, Otto in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 5, 1877, pp. 583-584; Online version
  2. ↑ Hannes P. Naschenweng, Kurt Roth: The governors of Styria 1236-2002 , Styria Verlag, 2002, p 34, ISBN 3222129967 ; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Opll: News from medieval Vienna: Zeitgenossen reports , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 1995, ISBN 3205983726 , p. 28 u. 29; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg: Eberstein, Grafen von , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 4, 1959, p. 251; Online version
  5. ↑ Chronicle of Rüppurr ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tus-rueppurr.de
  6. ^ Adolph Köllner: Geschichte der Herrschaft Kirchheim-Boland and Stauf , Wiesbaden, 1854, p. 89; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Eberstein, Eberhard IV of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Eberstein and Stauf, founder of the Rosenthal Monastery (Palatinate)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1190
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1263