Eberhardinger

The Eberhardinger were a family of Swabian nobility, the 889 I. Graf Eberhard in Zürichgau first time is mentioned.

The relationships within the family have only been partially clarified; it is clear above all that members of the family repeatedly appeared as counts of the Zürichgau and Thurgau and bailiffs of the Einsiedeln monastery .

In 1050 the Eberhardinger owned the newly built Nellenburg , after which the family called themselves Counts of Nellenburg from 1096 . Already three generations later, the male line of the Eberhardingers died out, whereby the Landgraviate of Nellenburg passed to the Counts of Veringen .

The most important Eberhardingers are:

• Eberhard I. (attested in 889), Count in Zurichgau
• Regelinda († 958), wife of Dukes Burchard II ( Burchardinger ) and Hermann I ( Konradiner ) of Swabia
• Eberhard I the Blessed († 1076/79), builder of the Nellenburg, relative of Pope Leo IX.
• Udo / Uto (X 1078), his son, 1066 Archbishop of Trier
• Burkhard III. († probably 1106), his brother, first Count of Nellenburg