Falkenstein (Harzgrafen)
Falkenstein was a dynastic family in the southeastern Harz .
Egeno II of Konradsburg had killed Adalbert II, who was wealthy in the vicinity . In atonement , his ancestral home was converted into a monastery. The Falkenstein (today Falkenstein Castle ) became the new headquarters. His son Burchard II adopted the name as the name of the family.
Then they became counts in the Wolmirstedt area . This county was previously the North Thuringia , which had come to the Mark Brandenburg . The margraves had transferred the administration of the area as a fief to the house Ammensleben , which came to power there by marrying into the house Hillersleben . Bia von Ammensleben then married Burchard II von Falkenstein. Since Bia was co-heir of Otto von Hillersleben, Burchard II came to the County of Wolmirstedt, which was later called Billingsho and in 1343 as before under Bishop Burchard III. Wolmirstedt Castle already came to the ore monastery of Magdeburg , which was the laughing third party in a feud at Gardelegen between Otto the Mild and Ludwig V (Bavaria) .
Hoyer von Falkenstein became the most famous of this house because he had Eike von Repgow write the Sachsenspiegel , an important legal work . Konrad von Falkenstein became provost at Hildesheim Cathedral in 1305 . Volrad von Falkenstein married the sister of Bishop Burchard III. In 1291 the Counts of Falkenstein were involved in the successful siege of Harliburg . They bequeathed donations to the Walkenried and Aschersleben monasteries as well as the Church of Our Lady . Luitgard von Falkenstein married Gebhard III. from Mansfeld .
When it became extinct, the county went to the Halberstadt cathedral chapter , half of which it sold to the Asseburg house , which then also took care of the Konradsburg monastery , and half of it from Burgsdorf .
According to Annalista Saxo , Egeno I. von Konradsburg was the brother of Alvereich von Kakelingen, who became the progenitor of the County of Plötzkau . The latter, now Margrave of the Nordmark , thus became an area neighbor of the County of Wolmirstedt. When it came to the feud between the two, the two lines of Ammensleben / Hillersleben fought each other. Konrad von Plötzkau fell, Albrecht the Bear was the successor through a donation from Lothar III. and so the Margraviate of Brandenburg came into being .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 3, 1861, p. 200.
- Adolph Friedrich Heinrich Schaumann: History of the Counts of Valkenstein am Harze: up to their exit in 1332 , 1847.
- Leopold Karl Wilhelm August Ledebur : The Counts of Valkenstein am Harze and their regular comrades , 1847.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener: State and Society Lexicon: new Conversations Lexicon 1861, p. 309