Friedrich I. von Graben

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The coat of arms of Otto I. von Graben's origin is that of the Krainer trunk line as well as the Konradinische line am Graben ( Graz )
The new coat of arms of Otto I. von Graben is that of the Kornberg line ( Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms)

Friedrich I von Graben , also Friedrich the Elder (* around 1300 at Alt-Grabenhofen Castle ; † before 1404 at Kornberg Castle ), descended from the noble lords of Graben , was a Styrian nobleman . Along with two brothers, he is considered to be the founder of the Kornberg line of the family, and he was named Herr von Kornberg, Burgrave of Riegersburg and Gleichenberg .

biography

Origin and family

Friedrich is first mentioned in 1300 (which could be his approximate date of birth) as the youngest son of burgrave Ulrich I von Graben and his wife Gertrud († both around 1325). At first he is still called Friedlein , later to distinguish his son of the same name from himself The Elder , and will outlive all of his siblings (according to the genealogy he reached an age of approx. 104 years). Friedrich married Catarina von Sumerau (also Catarina von Saurau, De Sommereck, von Somereck, von Summeregk , daughter of a Nicl von Sumerau or Niklas von Somereck, St. Sumerau). After the death of his first wife, Friedrich married Katharina (Kathrein) von Fürstenfeld, daughter of Peter von Fürstenfeld. From both marriages he had the following children:

  • Friedrich II. Of digging , led the Kornberger line continues
  • Anna von Graben (named 1415), married Balthasar von Idungspeug; Another source sees her as the wife of Dietmar von Peßnitz (a descendant of Hermann II von Peßnitz) in 1410
  • Agnes von Graben (called 1380–1447), married Dietmar Peßnitzer in 1380 and Ulrich von Saurau in 1424
  • Dorothea von Graben (called 1439), married to Leonhard Wolff, knight and captain in Gonobitz (Gonowitz)
  • N. von Graben (female) (called 1459), wife of Andree Wolff
  • N. von Graben (female) (called 1409), wife of Hans Wieffler
  • Leonhard (Lienhart, Linhart) von Graben (was mentioned in 1441), founder of the first Tyrolean line of the family
  • Andreas von Graben zu Sommeregg († 1463), founded the Sommeregger line in Carinthia and today's East Tyrol; Captain of the Ortenburg county and other possessions of the Counts of Cilli and Cillischer Burggraf on Ortenburg; Andreas was able to develop Sommeregg Castle, inherited from his mother, into his family home.

Friedrichs had two important grandsons; Ulrich III. von Graben from the Kornberg line , which under Emperor Friedrich III. was a high official and trusted councilor, as well as Virgil von Graben from the Sommeregger line , one of the most important nobles and officials in the county of Gorizia and in the Habsburg Empire of Frederick III. and Maximilians I.

coat of arms

Through the joint purchase of Kornberg by the brothers Otto I. , Ulrich II. And Friedrich I. in 1328 from Friedrich Kornberger, including the coat of arms and accessories , a new coat of arms was adopted, the one with the shovel, the spade; this could provide the explanation of the different gender coat of arms of the Kornberg line of the lords of Graben and their ancestry in Lower Austria, Tyrol and the Netherlands (but not in Carinthia and East Tyrol) to the family coat of arms with the sloping beam.

Annotation:

  • From his mother Gertraud von Graben (Gertravt Grabnerin) her coat of arms seal with the sloping beam from 1331 has been preserved.

Act

Before 1325, Friedrich von Graben and his brothers Veit, Otto I and Ulrich II. Von Graben donated an annual legacy to the Rein monastery . In 1325 he donated fifty marks of silver to the Rein monastery. Abbot Heinrich von Sonnenberg then committed to the Graben brothers to read an annual commemorative mass for their father Ulrich, who died in the same year.

Liebenau Castle in the 17th century

Together with his brothers Otto and Ulrich, in 1328 he came into the possession of the Kornberg lordship and the Kornberg Castle , a sovereign fiefdom , which they bought from Friedrich Chorenberger along with a new coat of arms. Kornberg became the headquarters of the Graben and gave its name to the Styrian line, the Kornberger line . In addition, the Graben brothers bought the villages of Edelsbach and Krottendorf and the Wetzelsdorf estate. Friedrich's descendants owned the rulership and Kornberg Castle until 1543, when this (Styrian) branch of the family with the knight Andrä von Graben in the male line died out.

In 1332 Eckel von Friedberg sold the March service to the brothers Friedrich I, Otto I and Ulrich II von Graben at 20 Hubs in Rassendorf, today's Ratschendorf.

In 1359 he was noted as the creator of the Styrian governor Ulrich von Walsee . By that he was in 1360 and 1387 with taxable subjects u. a. in Vatersdorf , Fischau , Obergnaß , Glatzental , Graschdorf , Jestmanndorf and Mermannsdorf . In 1377 Friedrich and his wife Katharina donated the Kornberg Palace Chapel. In the same year he also appears as the sole owner of Kornberg (ie that his brothers had all died). In 1387, as the sovereign fiefdom of Vatersdorf, Friedrich or one of his servants used the noble estate Liebenau as his seat. In 1383, Friedrich became his sole heir from his blood friend and brother-in-law Niclas von Roggendorf , the husband of his sister Catrey von Graben, upon an heirless death used. In 1354 Duke Albrecht II awarded him the post of lift master in Graz for 500 florins . Duke Rudolf IV enfeoffed him with the fortress Charnspach near Ybs, the diocese of Seckau with various estates in Auerspach and the diocese of Freising with fiefs at Kamersperg .

Friedrich also had a close relationship with the Konradinian line on the Graben , the branch of the family residing at Alt-Grabenhofen Castle; so sealed Reinprecht III. vom Graben contracts from his father Friedrich I and himself, a marriage certificate from Katrey von Graben, a daughter (?) of Friedrich and Niclas von Roggendorf, and in 1399 in a sales certificate from the two Friedrichs to Berthold von Wehingen, Bishop of Freising . It is interesting that all seals are well preserved and that the two Friedrichs have the newer coat of arms with the upright spade, while Reinprecht shows the old trench coat of arms with the sloping beam.

In a document from 1401, Friedrich von Graben appears as the Walsee administrator (burgrave) of Gleichenberg Castle . Furthermore, Friedrich was able to enlarge his seat at Schloss Kornberg considerably by taking subjects from Heinrich Otto von Hohenbruck and his wife Agnes as well as Otto's brother Gebhard Hochenbrucker to Gnieden and from Gabriel Pfundau and his wife Adelheid to Radolsdorf and also from Herant von Brandi's subjects related to Raning .

Friedrich von Graben died before 1404.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 62 and p. 92
  2. ^ Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 62
  3. ^ Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 66
  4. ^ Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 66 and p. 92
  5. ^ Grazer Zeitung: Official Gazette for Styria
  6. ^ Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, Volume 51 (1960): The Lords of the Grave. The story of a Styrian noble family. By Adalbert Sikora, p. 65
  7. ^ Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 65
  8. ↑ Der Schlern, Volume 62, Part 1
  9. ^ Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, Volume 51: Herren vom Graben
  10. ^ Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 66
  11. ^ Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, Volume 51
  12. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 70.
  13. ^ Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld. History of Carinthia: The Estates Epoch, 1994, p. 197
  14. ↑ Mahler's forays into the surroundings of the capital Grätz . By Joseph August Kumar (p. 285)
  15. ↑ Contributions to medieval seals: first part, p. 241, by Eduard Melly
  16. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 57.
  17. ↑ Mahler's forays into the surroundings of the capital Grätz . By Joseph August Kumar (p. 285)
  18. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 58.
  19. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, pp. 78–81, 93.
  20. ↑ Google Book Search: Carl Schmutz: Historisch-topographisches Lexikon von Steiermark . A - G, Volume 1. p. 420
  21. ^ Municipality of Deutsch Goritz. Old invalid municipal coats of arms
  22. ↑ The watering place Gleichenberg and its surroundings: a guide for Curgäste, Volume 2, page 317; by Wilhelm Wenzel Prášil
  23. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 64
  24. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: The Lords of the Trench. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Graben, Friedrich I. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burgrave and administrator of Gleichenberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1300
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Grabenhofen Castle
DATE OF DEATH before 1404
Place of death uncertain: Kornberg Castle , Styria, Austria