Noble free from Hohenhart

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The noble free von Hohenhart were a noble noble family, which is documented in the area of Wiesloch from 1127 to 1270. Ancestral home of the family was later Baiertal associated Castle Hohenhardtsweiler . Representatives of the family appear in the last third of the 12th century in connection with Count Palatine Konrad der Staufer , in the 13th century clerics are primarily mentioned. The coat of arms and seal of the noble family are not known. At Hohenhardt Castle, the nobles were followed by a family of ministers named after the castle .

history

The earliest known representatives of the family are Konrad I and Berthold I, who appear several times in prominent places between 1127 and 1196 as witnesses in the copy book of the Schönau monastery , in the Lorsch Codex and in documents from the Speyer and Worms churches . In the documents from 1160 to 1186 the Hohenharters always appear in connection with Count Palatine Konrad the Staufer . Hildebrandt concludes from the other witnesses of a document from 1165 that the von Hohenhart Untervögte were for the western Elsenzgau and the southern Lobdengau . From the 13th century onwards, the Hohenhart people appeared almost exclusively as clerics , presumably as a result of the Hohenstaufen power loss after the death of Heinrich VI. 1197. Berthold II. Von Hohenhart, who is mentioned from 1218 to 1245, was provost of the All Saints Monastery in Speyer . The family was last mentioned in 1270 with the mention of Gerhard as a witness of the Schönau monastery.

The family relationships of the well-known representatives can usually only be determined from the period of their mention and their names. Ludwig H. Hildebrandt addresses Konrad I, mentioned from 1127 to 1165, as the progenitor of the family. Conrad II, mentioned from 1165 to 1196, is documented as his son. His sons are probably Berthold I (mentioned from 1183 to 1196) and Rudolf (mentioned from the 1190s to 1229). Berthold II. (Mentioned 1218 to 1245) and Konrad III. (mentioned 1218 to 1232) were both clerics and usually appear together in a document, but are not referred to as brothers, so that they are probably about the same age as the sons of Berthold I and Konrad II. For the remaining known representatives, Gerhard I (mentioned 1216 to 1220), Gerhard II (mentioned 1267 to 1270) and Ulrich (mentioned 1240), there are no indications of any kind of relationship. In the case of the women Adelheid (around 1240), Mechthild and Werndrud, who are only vaguely dated, it is even questionable whether they belong to the family;

A relationship with the Counts of Lindenfels and the Lords of Schauenburg is conceivable via the leading names Konrad, Berthold and Gerhard, which are revealed according to the current state of knowledge . The von Lindenfels also testify in documents together with the von Hohenhart. With the exception of a guarantee from the late 12th century, no connections are visible to the noble freemen from Wissenloch , who also bore the name Konrad. Steinmetz suspects a relationship between the two Gerhard von Hohenhart and the von Erbach taverns.

The castle Hohenhardtsweiler their ancestral home of the family probably originated as part of the intensification of silver mining in Wiesloch in the 11th and 12th centuries, which has led to a high concentration of 23 castles within a radius of ten kilometers. From the structural findings of the castle, it could have been expanded in stone around the documented appearance of the important early Hohenharters in the early 12th century, the structurally documented early Gothic conversion could mark the transition to the subsequent ministerial family in the late 13th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, pp. 201/202.
  2. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, pp. 203/04.
  3. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, pp. 201/202.
  4. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, p. 202.
  5. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, p. 202.
  6. ↑ T. Steinmetz: Die Schenken von Erbach , Der Odenwald, special issue 3, 2000, p. 18ff., Quoted from Hildebrandt 2002.
  7. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, p. 207.
  8. ↑ Hildebrandt 2002, pp. 204-206.

literature

  • Ludwig H. Hildebrandt: The noble free family von Hohenhart , in: Kraichgau 17 , 2002, pp. 201-214.