Egino V. (Urach)

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Count Egino V of Urach, as Count Egino I of Freiburg, had the red eagle of the Zähringer in his coat of arms instead of the Urach lion

Egino V. (* around 1185; † 1236/37) was Count von Urach , son of Count Egino IV (~ 1160–1230) and Agnes von Zähringen .

Life

After the Zähringers died out in 1218, Egino IV von Urach, married to Bertold V's sister , Agnes, took over the part of the inheritance on the right bank of the Rhine, while the Zähringen possessions in Switzerland and Burgundy fell to his brother-in-law Ulrich von Kyburg . Then the Staufer King Friedrich II intervened and reduced the Urach and Kyburg inheritance claims by withdrawing the imperial fiefs of the Zähringer. In addition to Zurich, Rheinfelden, Bern, Breisach, Neuchâtel, Solothurn, Freiburg im Üchtland and Villingen, the ancestral castle Zähringen also fell back to the empire. The Zähringian duke title did not fall to the Counts of Urach and so Egino V called himself after the death of his father Egino IV in 1230 Egino I (1230–1236) Count of Freiburg.

Fight for the Zähringen legacy

In agreement with his son Egino the Younger (Egino V, from 1218 co-regent with the title of lord of the fortress of Freiburg ), Egino IV did not put up with this. “There was a fight between the king and Egino, which involved the city of Freiburg in particular.” Father and son succeeded in asserting themselves in the dispute over the Zähringer inheritance. Although the Zähring duchy and with it the title of duke expired in 1218, the former Zähring southern Black Forest also largely fell to the Staufers , who were also represented in the central Black Forest along the Kinzigtalstraße ( Ortenau , St. Georgen , Villingen ), but Egino V reached against the Overpowering Staufer King in Hagenau on September 18, 1219, a peaceful agreement that confirmed some of the Urach claims on both sides of the Black Forest in return for a (largely unpaid) compensation of 25,000 marks and at least did not rule out further claims of the Count.

Supported by his brother, Cardinal Bishop Konrad von Urach († 1227), Egino reached an agreement in 1226 with King Heinrich (VII.) (1224) and Emperor Friedrich, who recognized the Urach bailiwick over St. Peter in the Black Forest by the former Zähringische House monastery followed (1226).

The Zindelstein Castle (near Wolterdingen ) was the focal point for the Urach people in expanding their territory into the Black Forest, creating a connection from Breisgau via St. Peter to Baar.

Forerunner of a Freiburg constitution: the city toboggan of 1218

The change of rule to the Urachern made the citizens of Freiburg suspicious, and so, as a precaution, they wrote down the rights granted to them under the Zähringer in a constitutional document, the city toboggan of 1218. Among other things, the citizenship was bound to a property within the city walls. According to the original market law of 1120, 24 merchants formed the town council.

It was not the count who determined the fate of the city, but the noble “24 Rathmanns may make statutes about wine, bread, meat and other things, depending on what they think will be useful to the city. And those who swear by this and do not keep it have lost their honor and their goods will be proclaimed ”. The twenty-four also chose the mayor, "who judges umb own, inheritance and monetary debt, umb fornication, murderous and bloody slag, umb thieves and outrage and umb all other things as geneant are."

Division of the Zähringen inheritance

Tomb of Eginos I of Freiburg in Tennenbach Monastery

Despite his unsuccessful intervention in the Pfirter feud (1227/1228) and his proximity to King Henry (VII), the Count of Urach and Freiburg had politically asserted himself in Heinrich's fall (1235). Although Egino had a solid income from the silver mining rights, when he died in 1236/1237 his rule was hopelessly over-indebted. His widow Adelheid pledged the ancestral castle of Urach as guardian for her sons . Egino was buried in an orchard of the Tennenbach Monastery.

When Egino's son Konrad shared the inheritance with his youngest brother Heinrich , Egino V, “the heir of the Zähringer” became the ancestor of the Fürstenberg family . As Count von Fürstenberg, Heinrich received power in the Black Forest and in the Baar. The second son Eginos I. Gebhardt, however, went empty-handed as papal chaplain and parish rector in Freiburg.

For the Lords of Freiburg, the division of the estate turned out to be fatal, because in the long run, Breisgau and Ortenau were too small as an economic base to cover the counts' increasing financial needs. The Fürstenberg line was also constantly in need of money. In 1254/1265 Heinrich sold Urach Castle and parts of the Achalm to Württemberg and the property near Balingen to the Zollern .

progeny

Egino was married to Adelheid von Neuffen († 1248), the daughter of Count Heinrich I. Graf von Neuffen and Adelheid von Winnenden. He had several children with her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the original caption is misleading. On the following pages Adelheid von Neuffen is named as the wife of this Egon II, which means he is counted as Egino V. von Urach after Kindler von Knobloch
  2. ↑ a b genealogie-mittelalter.de
  3. ↑ Hansjakob, page 6
  4. ^ Heinrich Maurer, The constitutional upheaval in the city of Freiburg i. Br. In 1388, journal of the Society for the Advancement of History, Antiquity and Folklore 10 , 43, 1891.
  5. ↑ s. Schulte p. 380.

literature

  • Eva-Maria Butz: Noble rule in the field of tension between empire and region. Vol. 1: The Counts of Freiburg in the 13th Century , Vol. 2: Source documentation on the history of the Counts of Freiburg 1200-1368. (= Publications from the archive of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. 34 ). Freiburg 2002.
  • Mathias Kälble: Between rulership and civil liberty, municipality and urban leadership groups in Freiburg im Breisgau in the 12th and 13th centuries. Freiburg im Br. 2001.
  • F. Neininger: Konrad von Urach († 1227). Zähringer, Cistercian, cardinal legate. (= Sources and research from the field of history, NF. H.17 ). Paderborn 1994. online in the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
  • Peter Thorau: Yearbooks of the German Empire under King Heinrich (VII.). Part I, Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1998, pp. 95-97, 106, 109, 110 A, 113, 119, 121-123, 357, 359.

Older literature

  • Heinrich Büttner : Egino von Urach-Freiburg, the heir of the Zähringer, ancestor of the Fürstenberg family (= publications from the Fürstlich Fürstenberg archive. H. 6). Morg-Verlag, Donaueschingen 1939 PDF on thz-historia.de - accessed on February 18, 2013
  • Sigmund von Riezler : History of the Princely House of Fürstenberg and its ancestors up to 1509 . Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 1999, ISBN 3-89557-082-6 (unchanged reprint of the Tübingen edition 1883).
  • Heinrich Hansjakob: The counts of Freiburg i. B. in the fight with their city or how did the city of Freiburg i. Br. To the House of Austria . Edo Verlag, Freiburg / B. 2006, ISBN 3-86028-097-X (unchanged reprint of the Zurich 1867 edition).
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Heidelberg 1894, Volume 1, pp. 388-389 online with the family tree of the Counts of Freiburg
  • Anna Kempf: The burial place of Count Egino d. J. von Urach-Freiburg. A source investigation. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Vol. 70, 1950, pp. 57-75.
  • Aloys Schulte: The tomb of Count Egino V. of Freiburg and Urach. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 42, 1888, pp. 379-381.
predecessor Office successor
Title not used yet; Egino IV as Count of Urach Count of Freiburg
1230–1236 		Konrad I.
personal data
SURNAME Egino V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urach
DATE OF BIRTH around 1185
DATE OF DEATH 1236 or 1237