Count of Pfannberg

Coat of arms of the Counts of Pfannberg 1245

The Counts of Pfannberg , originally from Peggau (Peka, Peckach), are a Styrian noble family of the Middle Ages who named themselves after their Pfannberg castle (today a ruin south of Frohnleiten , a Pfannberger foundation around 1280), and were among the most powerful families in the country .

history

Pfannberg Castle (1681)

In 1218 documents mention Ulrich, a suitor from Peggau , who called himself Count von Phannenberch since 1237 . He was the first district judge among the Babenbergers .

In 1237 the Pfannbergers found themselves next to the noble Wildoners , Mureckers and other Styrians in Vienna with Emperor Friedrich II. , Who had just moved into the Austrian capital in the dispute with Duke Friedrich II .

In 1250, however, we find Heinrich von Pfannberg in the army of the Electen of Salzburg , Philipp von Spanheim , who at the head of the papal party conquered the Styrian Ennstal as far as Rottenmann . As early as 1253 we find Count Heinrich with other Styrian nobles, Dietmar von Weißenegg, Friedrich von Pettau , Wulfing von Stubenberg , Seifried von Mahrenberg and others, in opposition to Bohemia's Ottokar II Přemysl and his allied cousin Philipp von Salzburg .

In 1268 Bernhard von Pfannberg and Hartnid von Wildon were accused by Friedrich von Pettau of a conspiracy against Ottokar - since 1260 lord of the Duchy of Styria - and held prisoner for some time by the Bohemians (26 weeks according to Ottokar from der Gaal , the Styrian rhyming chronicler ); their castles were also confiscated or destroyed. (The Pfannbergers even lost five castles, including Peggau and Pfannberg.) In any case, a reconciliation with the Bohemian king did not take place much later. In 1270 the Pfannberger found themselves in the army of Ottokar, who after taking possession of Carinthia now also appropriated Carniola and the area as far as the Adriatic Sea .

In 1276 a new era began: Heinrich von Pfannberg, Ulrich von Heunburg , Friedrich von Pettau, Wulfing von Stubenberg, Herrand von Wildon , Hartnid von Stadeck , Otto von Liechtenstein (the son of Ulrich, who died in 1275 ) and many others gathered in the Rein monastery Noble and vowed as loyal vassals of the empire oath to King Rudolf and full support against Bohemia ( pure oath ). Soon the castles of Eppenstein , Kaisersberg , Neumarkt and Offenburg were in their hands. Heinrich von Pfannberg conquered the most important festival in the Oberland, Judenburg , and soon the Bohemians also had to evacuate Graz Castle and flee the country.

In 1291 the Styrians, under the leadership of Ulrich von Pfannberg and other nobles, rose up against their new prince, the Habsburg Duke Albrecht , but were defeated by him. Ulrich was married to Margarethe, a daughter of Count Ulrich von Heunburg († 1308).

The last Pfannberger ( Johann ) died in 1362/63 , followed by the Counts of Montfort until 1524. The first of these was Hugo von Montfort (* 1357; † 1423), the minstrel who married Margareta, Johann's daughter, and took over the Styrian possessions of the house with her. He took up residence on Pfannberg from 1401 and joined the Styrian gentry. In 1377 he accompanied Duke Albrecht III. on his Prussian march , probably fought with Sempach in 1386 , became bailiff in Aargau and Thurgau in 1388 and was governor in Styria from 1413-1415 . He died on April 4, 1423 at Pfannberg Castle, where a fresco painting and an inscription remembered him, and was buried with the Minorites in Bruck an der Mur .

Tribe list

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ancestors

NN, Count of Zeltschach

Wilhelm, probably ancestor of the Counts of Heunburg

Berthold von Zeltschach , Bishop of Gurk (1090–1106)

Poppo I. († after 1103), comes de Celsach ; persecuted Archbishop Thiemo of Salzburg in 1095

Poppo II. († before 1140, childless), comes de Celsach 1131, ⚭ Hemma († around 1157), donor of the chapel at Griffen in the Gurktal (1157 parish church); Heir to the Diocese of Gurk

Rudolf I († after 1138), "brother of the comes de Celsach " 1131, "de Peka" (from Peggau) 1136

Rudolf II. De Peka († before 1172)

Rudolf III. de Peka, 1173

Ortlieb de Peka, 1189

Poppo IV. De Peka, 1183
Poppo V. de Peka († 1250), mentioned in 1239
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Engelschalk de Peka, 1142

Poppo III. de Peka († after 1173), ceded the Celsach estate to Gurk in 1160 and received it again as a fief

Ulrich I. de Peka, 1175-1216

Leutold I. de Peka, 1175-1212

Leutold II. De Peka, 1214-1227
Leutold III. († 1258), Liber de Peka 1243, Abbot of St. Paul (1248–1258)

Ulrich II. De Peka († 1249), de Phannenberch 1219, then again de Peka, raised to the rank of count in 1237 - descendants see below

Wichard de Phannenberch, 1214