Brandis (Swiss noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Brandis from Scheibler's book of arms 1450–1480
Brandis Castle (Canton of Bern)
Brandis Castle in Maienfeld (Canton of Graubünden)

The Barons von Brandis came from the Emmental in today's Canton of Bern . Their headquarters was Brandis Castle near Lützelflüh .

history

The von Brandis family had been wealthy in the upper and middle Emmental since the 13th century and held the bailiwick of the Trub and Rüegsau monasteries . The first representative of the family known by name was Konrad von Brandis. In the 14th and 15th centuries, his descendants succeeded in acquiring extensive estates in what is now the canton of Bern, in eastern Switzerland, in Liechtenstein and in Vorarlberg, thanks to a clever marriage and credit policy .

Thuringia von Brandis married Katharina von Weissenburg and received the rule of Simmenegg. He established the connection of the family to Bern by entering into a castle law with the regionally dominant city in 1337 . While the prince-bishopric of Constance was in the hands of Bishop Thuringia von Brandis, he pledged the rights of the prince-bishopric in the Landgraviate of Burgundy as well as those of Burg Bischofszell and those of the rule of Küssaberg in the Black Forest to his relatives. Eberhard von Brandis , Abbot of Reichenau Monastery , sold all goods and rights of his monastery to his family in 1367.

As a result of Wolfhart I's marriage to Agnes von Montfort-Feldkirch , the widow of Count Hartmann von Werdenberg-Sargans , a large part of the property of the Werdenberg-Sargans family in the Rhine Valley and Vorarlberg passed into the hands of the von Brandis (Herrschaft Blumenegg with the Ansitz Burg Blumenegg , Sonnenberg with the Burg Sonnenberg and Schellenberg with the Upper and Lower Castle Schellenberg and the County of Vaduz with Vaduz Castle ). Wolfhart V. von Brandis last bought the Maienfeld estate in 1437 , where the castle built by the Toggenburgers is still known today as Brandis Castle , as well as the neighboring Marschlins Castle , and at the same time gradually sold his Bernese possessions to the city of Bern.

In 1477, Count Alwig X. von Sulz , aged 60, married Baroness Verena von Brandis, 35 years his junior. They had two daughters and a son Rudolf V. von Sulz , he is also called Rudolf III in various sources. called.

At the end of the 15th century, the von Brandis family came between the fronts of the Habsburgs and the Confederates . In 1499 the Confederates occupied Maienfeld during the Swabian War and captured Sigmund and Thuringia von Brandis there. The last offspring of the family, Johannes von Brandis , had to sell the Maienfeld dominion to the Drei Bünde in 1509 due to financial difficulties and in 1510 Schellenberg, Vaduz and Blumenegg to Rudolf V. von Sulz . With him, the family died out in 1512.

In the choir of the St. Mamerta Chapel in Triesen there was originally a late Gothic carved winged altar, which Ludwig von Brandis donated for the chapel in 1492. The altar is now in the Triesner parish church of St. Gallus.

  • Coat of arms in the cathedral of Chur

  • Sulz – Brandis alliance coat of arms at Tiengen Castle

There are still two other (unrelated) noble families of the same name, the Counts of Brandis in South Tyrol and the Barons von Brandis from Lower Saxony, who were ennobled in 1769 .

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