Barons of Wart
The barons of Wart were a noble family that lived in the 12th-14th centuries. Century lived in the area of today's Canton of Zurich . Their ancestral seat was the castle Wart in the area of today's community Neftenbach .
history
The most famous representatives were the minstrel Jakob von Wart and his brother Rudolf von Wart . The latter was involved in the murder of King Albrecht I and was probably beaten in the blood revenge of the Habsburgs in Brugg in 1309. The ancestral seat of the family was the castle Wart in the area of today's municipality Neftenbach .
The medieval castle was destroyed in the 14th century; today's neo-Gothic Wart castle in Neftenbach, owned by the barons of Sulzer-Wart, was not built until 1889.
Weitenau Monastery
The family also had estates in the Black Forest; Around 1100 the brothers Arnold, Erkinbold and Heinrich von Wart donated the church and land near Weitenau to the Benedictine monastery of St. Blasien , which built the Weitenau priory there. The bailiwick over the priory probably remained with the family for some time.
literature
- Kaspar Hauser: The barons of Wart . (= New Year's Gazette of the City Library in Winterthur; 233/234). Geschwister Ziegler book printing company, Winterthur 1896 ( digitized )
Web links
- Martin Leonhard: Wart, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum, Volume I, p. 250
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
