Rapperswiler

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The Rapperswiler were an aristocratic family from Eastern Switzerland who belonged to the imperial upper nobility . The focus of their possessions was in what is now eastern and central Switzerland. Their ancestral home was Alt-Rapperswil Castle in the Altendorf community . Your genealogy is controversial in research and can no longer be completely reconstructed. They built Rapperswil Castle around 1200 and founded the city of Rapperswil adjacent to it . The Rapperswil family ended in 1283 with the death of Count Rudolf V of Rapperswil in the male line.

Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil (* around 1251/61; † 1309), the sister of Rudolf V von Rapperswil, continued the line of the Counts of Rapperswil and secured the extensive possessions of the Rapperswilers in Zurichgau for the branch line Habsburg-Laufenburg .

Of their offspring who went out hombergische in 1323 or 1325 with the death of Wernher von Homberg, the Habsburg laufenburgische line in 1408, as John IV. Of Habsburg-Laufenburg died without entitled to inherit male offspring.

history

The Rapperswil family probably comes from the Guelph - the exact genealogy is controversial. On the female side, they are said to go back to the Lords of Uster. The genealogy of the Rapperswilers and the relatives of the Habsburg-Laufenburg and Homberg families has not yet been clarified beyond any doubt.

Early history

Originally the Rapperswilers were wealthy in today's March , around the Greifensee , around Uster , Wetzikon and Hinwil . Alt-Rapperswil Castle - "Rahpendeteswilare" or "the vestize of the old Rapreswile" - in Altendorf was built around 1040 and destroyed in 1350 by troops from the city of Zurich under Mayor Brun - but according to a document from 697 it is supposed to be a knight Raprecht as the progenitor of St. Johann go back. The St. Johann chapel near Altendorf still marks the location of the destroyed ancestral castle today.

Family tree of the Counts of Rapperswil, in: Heinrich Murer: Chronicle of the Wettingen Monastery (after 1631), Cantonal Library Thurgau , Y 115

Some of the earliest documented mentions of the Rapperswil residents can be found in the Einsiedeln monastery archive:

Wirunt [Abbot from 996 to 1026; † February 11, 1026], Wirendus, Wirund, Wem, Wirand, Verendus. According to the chroniclers of the 15th century, he is said to have been "a count of Wandelburg, of the Rapperswil tribe". The Wandelburg castle was located at the foot of the upper Buchberg and later appears in the possession of the Counts of Rapperswil. However, any proof of the assumption that Wirunt really comes from this cannot be provided .
... the brothers chose one from among their number, whose name is not mentioned in detail, but which Vogt Rudolf von Rapperswil and the ministerials did not want to recognize because they had not been included in the election. The Vogt demanded that the convent accept his brother, a monk in St. Gallen, as abbot. However, the brothers refused to do so, whereupon the bailiff and the ministerials so annoyed that they finally yielded to the inevitable. But some managed to escape and this came to Emperor Friedrich I, who on February 28, 1173 in Säckingen ... decided that he should have both abbots, the one chosen by the brothers and the usurper (who has not been counted as an abbot from ancient times) and appointed an abbot himself.
Ulrich I. von Rapperswil (1192–1206) ... The resignation of Wernher [Wernher II. Von Toggenburg] had the consequence that this time the protector of the monastery, Rudolf von Rapperswil, penetrated with his demands; because in all likelihood Wernher's successor was a Rapperswiler. The old annals do not give us any information about this, because one hand deleted the entire entry about Ulrich, which is referred to as "Flagellum quoddam iracundiae Dei". The Liber Heremi and Bonstetten, however, call him a Rapperswil, both emphasize his bad government at the same time. His choice was made by the brothers, albeit probably under pressure from the bailiff. We no longer know how Rudolf got the devastating judgment of his time. What has come down to us from his government shows that he also tried to preserve the usefulness of the monastery ... Even if these events do not throw a bad light on the abbot's government, it is certain that in 1206 he had to give up the abbey ... Abbot Ulrich received a seal on the document from 1194 ... «OLRICVS. DEI. GRA. HEREMITARV. ABBAS »… .

Barons of Rapperswil (Alt-Rapperswil)

Presumably as early as around 1100 the Rapperswil patrons of the Einsiedeln monastery were guardians . The Rapperswilers probably inherited the important bailiwick of Einsiedeln Monastery from the Lords of Uster. Around 1044 they inherited property in the Zurich Oberland from the same sex. The Rapperswil residents later expanded Uster Castle , founded the Uster Church and built Greifensee Castle .

As bailiffs of Einsiedeln, the Rapperswilers played an important role in the so-called Marchenstreit (approx. 1100–1350) between the monastery and the residents of the Schwyz valley . The Rapperswil wars against Schwyz several times, especially when the border war escalated after 1214. Temporary calm returned when Count Rudolf II. Von Habsburg , Vogt von Schwyz, awarded the Schwyzers the rear Sihl valley as well as the valleys of the Waag , Minster and the upper Alptal on June 11, 1217 . Around 1180, the Rapperswilers were able to inherit church rights in Weisslingen and free float in Russikon, Erisberg, Luckhausen , Moosburg and in Kemptthal from the Lords of Weisslingen . The Greifenberg Castle with Bernegg and the Bailiwick of Kempten were also owned by the Rapperswilers.

The original seat of Rapperswil on the left bank of Lake Zurich benefited from the important trade route along the left bank of Lake Zurich , the Zurich over the mountain passes to the Lombardy and Venice combined. The opening of the Schöllenen Gorge around the year 1200 opened a direct north-south trade route and, together with the important pilgrimage route, the Swabian Path from Konstanz to Einsiedeln, may have influenced the construction of Neu-Rapperswil. The Marchenstreit smoldered on, however, and played an important role in the outbreak of the Morgarten War and probably in the relocation of the Rapperswil headquarters to the right side of Lake Zurich, which led to the construction of the castle and town of Rapperswil (Neu-Rapperswil) around 1220 .

Old and new Rapperswil

Between approx. 1192 and 1210 there seems to have been a crisis in the Rapperswil family, as no lay family member can be documented for this time. After the death of Bailiff Rudolf II of Rapperswil († after 1192), according to the view of modern research, there was no direct inheritance, as no Rapperswilers can be found in the documents for the time in question. However, it is documented that Ulrich von Rapperswil lost his office as Abbot of Einsiedeln in 1206 and that there was a conflict over the church of Rapperswil in 1207/08, in which two canons from Konstanz are involved, who were probably Heinrich and Ulrich von Rapperswil. This means that the dynasty of the Lords of Rapperswil died out for the first time at the end of the 12th century.

In the literature, therefore, a distinction is sometimes made between "Alt-Rapperswil" (before about 1200) and "Neu-Rapperswil". The lords of Neu-Rapperswil were only able to assert themselves in the area around the year 1210 and were probably not able to take over the entire property of the Alt-Rapperswil.

The thesis of a Rapperswil inheritance dispute around 1200 is also supported by the chronicle of Dominik Rothenfluh, which reports of a marriage around 1190 between Elisabeth, daughter of Rudolf II of Alt-Rapperswil, and Diethelm II of Toggenburg. The Grynau Castle , the Wandelburg and the Rapperswil estates in the Uznach area including the churches of Bollingen and Eschenbach SG would have been intended as dowry by Rudolf II. Apparently, the heirs of the Alt-Rapperswilers no longer wanted to cede these goods to the Toggenburgers and a long-standing feud about these possessions and rights ensued. In connection with this dispute, the churches of Eschenbach SG and Bollingen went to the Rüti monastery, Uznach and Grynau finally went to the Toggenburgs. The Foundation of the Johanniterkommende Bubikon also seems to have taken place in the context of the legal dispute between Toggenburg and Rapperswil, as the donor's picture in the chapel of the Coming One suggests. The Rapperswiler roses in the coat of arms of Uznach reminds of the former gentlemen to this day. A part of the Alt-Rapperswil goods complex in the Zurich Oberland, which came from the Lords of Uster, went to the Lords of Bonstetten (Uster Castle, basic and court rights in Kirchuster, Nossikon, Sulzbach and Wermatswil) on the occasion of the inheritance disputes, although the Counts of Kyburg also tried to assert feudal rights. It remains unclear to this day whether the feud between the Toggenburgers and Neu-Rapperswilers only related to Elisabeth's dowry or to the entire legacy of the Alt-Rapperswilers. It is also not known where the Neu-Rapperswilers derived their claims from.

After the feud was settled, the lords of Neu-Rapperswil were able to assert themselves as the main heirs of the Alt-Rapperswil estates from 1210 onwards. They had the Rapperswiler Rose three times in their coat of arms, with the exception of Heinrich von Rapperswil. Its origin is unclear, Eugster places it near the Lords of Wädenswil and von Schnabelburg and suspects a relationship to the Alt-Rapperswilern. Under the Neu-Rapperswilern Rudolf II. And Rudolf III. the change of dynasty also manifested itself through the relocation of the seat of power to (New) Rapperswil.

Counts of (New) Rapperswil

“As a thank you for the energetic help that the Rapperswil gentlemen gave the monastery in the Marche controversy, Abbot Konrad Graf Rudolf allowed to settle on the Endingen headland belonging to the monastery; this is how the castle and town of Rapperswil came into being around 1230. » , can be read in the archive of Einsiedeln Abbey. Rapperswil (SG) was founded in 1229 , which is mentioned on a deed of donation in the Rapperswil City Archives .

After the establishment of the new headquarters of the Rapperswiler under Rudolf II. And Rudolf III. Alt-Rapperswil was renamed Altes Dorf ( Vetus-Villa ). The focus of the holdings of the Rapperswilers was now in the area around the upper Lake Zurich , the March , around the Greifensee and in Uri . Free float was in the Linth Plain , in Aargau and in Zurichgau .

1232/33 succeeded the Rapperswilern with Rudolf III. as a supporter of the Hohenstaufen the rise to the count class . Part of their possessions were separated from the Landgraviate of Zürichgau and now formed their own county of Rapperswil: March with the Wägital , Rapperswil, Jona, Kempraten and Wagen, as well as the farms of Pfäffikon , Wollerau and Bäch , as fiefs from Einsiedeln Monastery. The area of ​​the collectively named Höfe possessions was sold in 1342 by the Einsiedeln Monastery to Jakob Brun, the brother of Zurich Mayor Rudolf Brun , and Count Johann II pledged the Höfner Vogtei to him.

In 1240 the Rapperswilers received the imperial bailiwick over Ursern from the Hohenstaufen .

(Neu-) Rapperswil Castle, built under Rudolf II. And Rudolf III. from Rapperswil

Rudolf III. was the actual founder of the city of Rapperswil and ended the construction of the castle and town. He also achieved the separation of Rapperswil from the parish of Busskirch and was therefore the founder of the parish of Rapperswil . The wives of Rudolf III. are unknown, the only thing that is certain is that he was married twice. His only daughter was Anna. She married Count Hartmann von Kyburg in 1251/52, but died shortly after the birth of her son Werner II von Kyburg in 1253. The mother only survived this by a few years. After the death of Rudolf III. In 1255, his inheritance therefore went to Rudolf III. von Vaz , the son of his sister Adelheid, who lived with Walter III. von Vaz was married. Rudolf III. von Vaz therefore referred to himself from 1255 as Count Rudolf IV von Rapperswil. He founded the Wurmsbach monastery in 1259 and died in 1262. His grave is in Wurmsbach. He had three children from his marriage to Mechthild von Neifen. Vincent, who lived only briefly and died before 1261, Elisabeth and Rudolf V. The latter was under the guardianship of Walter V of Vaz and Rudolf of Habsburg as a minor. Since he died childless in 1283, the Rapperswil family ended with him in the male line.

Extinction of the Neu-Rapperswilers in the male lineage

The male line of the Rapperswil family - whose possessions were concentrated around 1283 in the Wettingen area, in Uri, Winterthur, in the Zürcher Oberland and on the upper Lake of Zurich - ended in 1283 with the death of the underage Rudolf V (* around 1265 - † January 15 1283).

After the death of Rudolf V von Rapperswil, King Rudolf I von Habsburg took over the imperial fiefs of the Rapperswilers and handed over the fiefs that were reverting to the St. Gallen monastery to his sons. With this, Rudolf I of Habsburg came into the possession of the imperial bailiwick over the Urserental - and with it the strategically important Gotthard pass , as well as the bailiwick over Einsiedeln.

The monastery archive in Einsiedeln explains this serious change in the balance of forces in the Zurichgau in more detail in the abbots' book of professions :

... The Counts of Rapperswil also threatened to die out. Abbot Anselm had a good relationship with the then Count Rudolf [IV]; because he appears several times as a witness in the Count's documents, for example when the church of Rapperswil [Count Rudolf III] was separated from the one in Wurmsbach, at the foundation of the Wurmsbach monastery and on the occasion of a donation to this monastery. Since he had no male heir, the count wanted the bailiwick, which he held as a fief over the monastery properties outside the Etzel, to go to his wife Mechtild [von Neifen] first as a personal property, but then to his daughter Elisabeth. Abbot Anselm admitted this on January 10, 1261. But since Rudolf [IV.] Had a son after his death on July 27th, 1262, the contract lapsed ...
The Zürichgau in the Stumpf'schen Chronik of 1547/48
... According to a report by Abbot Johannes I, [Peter I. von Schwanden] transferred the bailiffs to the later son [Rudolf V] of Count Rudolf [IV] von Rapperswil that would otherwise have been assigned to his sister Elisabeth ...
... Of great importance for the further history of the monastery was that under this abbot [Heinrich II. Von Güttingen ] the bailiwick passed over the church to the Habsburgs. The young Count of Rapperswil [Rudolf V] mentioned above died on January 15, 1283. Since his sister [Elisabeth von Rapperswll] resp. whose husband, Ludwig von Homberg, did not lose the fiefdom, the abbot transferred it to his own brother, Rudolf von Güttingen.
However, King Rudolf did not agree with this, because the acquisition of this bailiwick fit perfectly with his plans with which he carried himself towards the Waldstätten. He therefore had the fiefs, which in and of themselves could only inherit in the male line, move in through Wetzel, the mayor of Winterthur , in the hands of the king. Rudolf von Güttingen received a sum of money. But now the Hornberger did not want to miss the fiefdom. Therefore a great dispute arose between him and the king, from which the monastery also suffered, which was even attacked by the mayor of Winterthur, Dietrich. He therefore incurred the excommunication , the execution of which was entrusted to the parish vicar on the Ufnau by Abbot Heinrich in 1288 on behalf of Bishop Rudolf von Konstanz and the king himself .
But when Count Ludwig von Homberg died on April 27, 1289, the king transferred the Stäfa, Erlenbach, Pfäffikon and Wollerau farms to his widow Elisabeth's request, as well as the Pfäfer farms at Männedorf and Tuggen. The other courts and the bailiwick remained with the dukes of Austria.
This transfer of the bailiwick to the Habsburgs had the most far-reaching consequences for the monastery; for when the fairytale quarrel revived around this time , it took on completely new forms. If in its earlier course it had been an economic struggle in which the rapidly growing people of Schwyz had to look for new areas, it now took on a purely political character. In the monastery, the Schwyz wanted to meet the bailiffs, the Habsburgs. Apparently, however, the dispute broke out before 1283, because we have a bull from Pope Martin IV dated June 1, 1282, in which the abbot of Pfäfers, following the complaint of the monastery, that it had to suffer many damage from some instructed to take action against them. The complaint rodel of 1311 (see below) also reports that an attack had occurred under Abbot Heinrich. Otherwise we will not learn anything further. However, recent research has shown that the great freedom movement of the three countries [Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden] should be relocated to the last years of Rudolf I's rule. That is why such hostilities, even if we do not find out anything else, cannot be ruled out. Pope Nicholas IV confirmed the freedoms and immunities of the monastery on August 23, 1290.
In general, Abbot Heinrich had a lot of worries about the property entrusted to him. Countess Elisabeth von Homberg-Rapperswil raised claims to the farms in Brütten and Finstersee , but waived her claims on November 20, 1293 ...

Rapperswil-Homberg

Elisabeth von Rapperswil was married to Count Ludwig von Homberg († April 27, 1289). Her son, Wernher von Homberg (* 1284; † March 21, 1320 near Genoa) was from 1309 a. a. Count , rich Vogt of Waldstätte and the Codex Manesse ( page 43v mentioned) minstrel .

In 1291 she entered into an alliance with the city of Zurich that was directed against the Habsburgs. She sold the rest of the Rapperswil property in Uri in 1290 and pledged the Greifensee estate around 1300 .

The monastery archives explain the transfer of the bailiwick rights via Pfäffikon and Einsiedeln Abbey to the County of Rapperswil as follows:

... The bailiwick of Pfäffikon etc. gave Abbot Johannes in 1296 to Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil, who was in second marriage with Rudolf III. von Habsburg-Laufenburg had married. But her son from her first marriage, Wernher von Homberg , received part of it; Habsburg Austria also pledged the bailiwick of Einsiedeln to this in 1319; later all fiefdoms were contractually transferred to Habsburg-Laufenburg ...

Johann I von Habsburg-Laufenburg comes from her second marriage to Count Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg († 1315). Around 1303 it divided the county in such a way that the property on the left bank of Lake Zurich fell to the descendants of Ludwig von Homberg, while the property on the right bank remained with the Habsburg-Laufenburg family.

Rudolf von Wunnenburg, a monk at Einsiedeln Abbey, was captured by the Schwyzers in Einsiedeln with a number of noblemen in 1300 and held hostage in Schwyz until March 29th . What is interesting about this passage is the mention of a close relationship between the Rapperswil-Laufenburg line and the Barons of Regensberg :

... He was sent by the prisoners on March 10th as an envoy to their noble relatives and returned on March 25th with letters from the Counts of Rapperswil and Toggenburg. In these letters, Lütold von Regensberg used himself for his son Johannes, the two Wunnenburgs and that of Ulvingen; Count Rudolf von Habsburg-Rapperswil for his uncle Johannes von Regensberg and the three others; Count Friedrich von Toggenburg for his uncle von Regensberg and the other three above-mentioned. Baron Ulrich von Güttingen declared on May 3, 1314 that he did not want to avenge the captivity of his unions Rudolf and Heinrich von Wunnenburg, as well as those of Johannes von Regensberg and von Ulvingen ...

Rapperswil-Laufenburg

After the death of their husbands, these were Johann I († September 21, 1337, Battle of Grynau ), then his son Johann II von Habsburg-Laufenburg . After the Hombergs died out, their part also fell to Habsburg-Laufenburg in 1330, albeit as a fief of the Habsburg family .

Johann II von Habsburg-Laufenburg took part in the night of the murder in Zurich and remained incarcerated in Zurich's Wellenberg for two years. Mayor Rudolf Brun had the castle and city of Rapperswil ( pillage of Rapperswil ) as well as the castle Alt-Rapperswil destroyed in 1350 and the possessions of Rapperswil in the lower March, on the left bank of Lake Zurich, were occupied.

After his release, Count Johann II. Von Rapperswil could not afford the high costs of rebuilding the destroyed city and the Rapperswil fortresses and around 1354 sold the goods on the upper Lake Zurich with the city and castle of Rapperswil to Duke Albrecht of Austria . From then on, bailiffs appointed by Austria sat in Rapperswil. In 1358 Johann II also sold the property on the left bank and the hermit fiefs to Albrecht, with the result that the entire county passed into the possession of the Habsburgs.

As the new owner, Duke Albrecht II of Habsburg Austria had the castle and town expanded into a militarily well-secured base as early as 1352. Until 1458 the rule of Rapperswil remained a cornerstone of Habsburg Austria against the territorially expanding Confederation.

Rapperswil foundations

The Rapperswiler founded the monasteries Wettingen (1227) and Wurmsbach in Bollingen (1259) and exercised the bailiwick over the monastery Einsiedeln . In 1227 and 1290, the Rapperswil residents gave or sold their goods to the Wettingen monastery in Uri , including Göschenen .

After an inheritance dispute between the Toggenburgers and the Rapperswilers that was settled around 1200 , Diethelm von Toggenburg awarded the building site and the church in Bubikon. The Rapperswiler expanded the Kommende to include goods in Wangen near Dübendorf, Hinwil and Winterthur and thus became one of the founders of the Johanniterkommende Bubikon .

Rudolf III gave the monastery of Rüti . in 1229 the church of Bollingen including tithes and authorities. In the deed of gift u. a. Diethelm von Toggenburg , Ulrich von Landenberg and almost all cives ( citizens , patricians) from Rapperswil mentioned.

The Rapperswiler were feudal bearers of the monasteries St. Gallen , Reichenau and Pfäfers .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the lords of (Neu-) Rapperswil after 1210

Originally a green-stemmed, green-leafed, gold-studded red rose in silver, is attributed to the gentlemen of Alt-Rapperswil. Later, before 1233, the gentlemen from Neu-Rapperswil have three roses in the same coat of arms colors. The current municipal coats of arms of Rapperswil-Jona , Uznach and Altendorf (SZ) are based on the Rapperswil rose.

genealogy

  • Wirunt, Wirendus, Wirund, Wem, Wirand, Verendus († 1026): From 996 to 1026 Abbot of Einsiedeln; According to the chroniclers of the 15th century, he is said to have been "a count of Wandelburg ( Benken SG ), of the tribe of Rapperswil"; the castle appears later in the possession of the Counts of Rapperswil; however, proof of ancestry cannot be provided.
  • Ulrich von Rapperswil († before 1142): Vogt of Einsiedeln.
  • Rudolf I of Rapperswil: Vogt of Einsiedeln (1142/44).
  • Rudolf II of Rapperswil: Vogt of Einsiedeln († after 1192).
  • Gebezzo, Ulrich II., Rudolf II., Heinrich I (mentioned between 1153 and 1210).
  • Ulrich I (or III.) Von Rapperswil († 1206): From 1192 to 1206 abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey ; A seal from him on a document from 1194 has been preserved: «OLRICVS. DEI. GRA. HEREMITARV. ABBAS ».
  • Ulrich (possibly II.) Von Rapperswil (* before 1200): Presumably the builder of Greifensee Castle resp. of the first residential tower ; is said to have been named after the Greifenberg Castle in Bäretswil .
  • Guota (Guta) von Rapperswil: sister of Ulrich III., Wife of Count Diethelm I of Toggenburg (Diethelm VI., As Count Diethelm I), probably mother of Diethelm II of Toggenburg and his younger brother Friedrich († 1226) .
  • Baron Heinrich II. (Knight Heinrich) von Rapperswil: After 1220 bought goods in Wettingen and the right of patronage over the village church. After Heinrich was miraculously rescued from distress at sea during the Crusades, according to the founding legend he donated his property in Wettingen to the Salem Monastery and in this way became the founder of the Wettingen Monastery . ( Cf. )
  • Count Rudolf II of Rapperswil (* around 1160, † around 1218); moved the headquarters (Alt-Rapperswil) from Altendorf (SZ) to Rapperswil (SG); Founder of the city of Rapperswil; Participants in the Fifth Crusade together with Luetold IV von Regensberg .
  • Count Rudolf III. von Rapperswil (* 1180/90; † 1251): Completed the construction of the town and castle of Rapperswil ; Founder of the parish and town church in Rapperswil ; Jerusalem trip 1217; In 1229 , he gave the Rüti monastery the Bollingen Church, including tithes and all of its members.
  • Anna, daughter of Rudolf III. († 1253): married Count Hartmann von Kyburg in 1251/52, but died shortly after the birth of their son Werner II von Kyburg in 1253.
  • Adelheid von Rapperswil: sister of Rudolf III. from Rapperswil; married to Walter III. von Vaz and mother of Count Rudolf IV. von Rapperswil (Rudolf III. von Vaz).
  • Count Rudolf IV of Rapperswil (approx. * 1230; † 1262): Born as Rudolf III. von Vaz-Rapperswil, son of Walter III. von Vaz and Adelheid von Rapperswil; called himself the heir of the County of Rudolf IV of Rapperswil; 1259 (second?) Founder of the Cistercian monastery Wurmsbach in Bollingen and the Franciscan nuns Wydenklösterlis in Jona.
  • Mechthild von Neifen: wife of Rudolf IV and mother of Vinzenz († around 1261), who only lived briefly, of Elisabeth and Rudolf V; Together with her husband sponsor of the Oetenbach Monastery in Zurich, the knight Burkhard Brühunt, a follower of the Rapperswil family, confirmed that in 1261 he had sold the building site on Oetenbach to the women.
  • Count Rudolf V. von Rapperswil (* around 1265; † 1283): brother of Elisabeth von Rapperswil; died as a minor and without offspring; last Count of Rapperswil in male line of succession.
  • Elisabeth von Rapperswil (* around 1251/61; † 1309): Sister of Rudolf V .; married to Count Ludwig von Homberg and later to Count Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg (uncle of Johannes von Regensberg ); was, like her mother and father, one of the patrons of the city of Zurich monastery Oetenbach; After the death of their husbands, first Count Johann I, then his son Count Johann II. inherited the County of Rapperswil.
  • Cäcilia von Homberg (* probably before 1300; † after 1320): daughter of Elisabeth from her first marriage to Count Ludwig von Homberg; Prioress of the Oetenbach Monastery ; promoted its further expansion from 1317.
  • Count Werner von Homberg- Rapperswil or Hohenberg (* 1284; † 1320/23 near Genoa): son of Elisabeth von Rapperswil from her first marriage to Count Ludwig von Homberg; Minstrel ; Vogt of Einsiedeln (1296?); from 1309 was imperial count and imperial bailiff of the Waldstätte , imperial field captain (lieutenant general) in Lombardy at the time of Emperor Henry VII ; Founded the Liebfrauenkapelle of the Oetenbachkloster around 1320.
  • Count Johann (es) I von Habsburg-Laufenburg- Rapperswil (* before 1295/6; † 1337): son of Elisabeth von Rapperswil from her second marriage to Count Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg; Father of Count Johann II and presumably at least two other sons; granted asylum to the councilors ( Constaffler ) in Rapperswil in 1336, who had been banished from Zurich by Rudolf Brun ; was killed in the battle of Grynau .
  • Count Johann (es) II. Von Habsburg-Laufenburg-Rapperswil (* around 1330; † 1380): Participated in the 1350 murder night of Zurich , whereupon the Zurich mayor Rudolf Brun ravaged Rapperswil in an act of retaliation; During his imprisonment in the Wellenberg in Zurich, the count composed the minnie song "Blümli blawe", immortalized by Goethe in the ballad "Das Blümlein Wunderschön: Lied des Captured Count"; sold the remnants of the County of Rapperswil to Albrecht II of Habsburg Austria in 1354 and 1358.
  • Maria von Oettingen: widow (?) Of Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg; Wife of Wernher von Homberg, the son of Elisabeth von Rapperswil.
  • Albrecht von Rapperswil or Albrecht von Raprechtswil (probably 13th century): Minnesinger and marshal at the Rapperswiler Hof mentioned in Codex Manesse ( folio 192v ) .
  • Gottfried III. von Habsburg-Laufenburg († 1373): Count of Alt-Rapperswil.
  • Count Johann (es) IV. Von Habsburg-Laufenburg († 1408): The last of the Laufenburg line died without male descendants entitled to inheritance; when his daughter Ursula married Count Rudolf von Sulz in 1410, the Landgraviate of Klettgau passed to the Counts of Sulz.
  • Ursula von Habsburg-Laufenburg (* probably before 1400): daughter of Johann IV, married to Count Rudolf von Sulz.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Eugster, Adlige Territorialpolitik, pp. 230-256.
  2. ^ Website of the March district history
  3. ↑ Canton Schwyz website, Altendorf community ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz.ch
  4. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archive, professorship book abbots, 4th Wirunt (from Rapperswil)
  5. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archives, Book of professions abbots, 13. Wernher II of Toggenburg
  6. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archive, professorship book abbots, 14. Ulrich I von Rapperswil
  7. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archive, Book of professions abbots, 11. Wernher I.
  8. ↑ Eugster, Noble Territorial Policy, p. 248.
  9. ↑ Kaspar Michel: Fairy tale dispute. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  10. ↑ a b monastery archive Einsiedeln, professorship book abbots, 16. Konrad I.
  11. ↑ Eugster, Adlige Territorialpolitik, pp. 230–234
  12. ^ Original in the Rapperswil City Archives, copies in the Zurich Central Library Ms A 136 and L453.
  13. ↑ Eugster, Adlige Territorialpolitik, pp. 236–238.
  14. ^ Eugster, Noble Territorial Policy, p. 254.
  15. ↑ a b In a deed of donation written in Latin to the Rüti monastery , cives de Rathprehenswiler (citizens of Rapperswil) are named as witnesses for the first time (free translation):
    Vogt Rudolf von Rapperswil donated the Bollingen church, including tithes and all its associated parts, to the Rüti monastery because of the insubordination of his closest relative . So that this donation cannot be challenged by his heirs in the future, the present document is drawn up and given Rudolf's seal .
    Numerous knights appear among the witnesses, e. B. Diethelm von Toggenburg , Ulrich von Landenberg and almost all cives ( citizens , patricians) from Rapperswil. Publicly set up in the house of the bailiff Peter. This document dated 1229 as the 'official' founding date of the city of Rapperswil. The history is taken from the information boards in the Rapperswil City Museum.
  16. ^ Website of the community of Freienbach , history
  17. ↑ According to a different opinion, Rudolf V was the son of Rudolf III. viewed.
  18. ↑ a b c monastery archive Einsiedeln, Professbuch abbots, 20. Heinrich II. Von Güttingen
  19. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archives Professbuch: Abbots, 17. Anselm von Schwanden
  20. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archives Professbuch: Abbots, 19th Peter I. von Schwanden
  21. ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archives, Book of Professors IV., The Monks of the 13th Century
  22. ↑ Eugster, Territorialpolitik, pp. 261–270.
  23. ↑ Ernst Tremp: Crusades. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  24. ↑ «I know a flower, beautiful, And long for it;
    I would like to go looking for it, but I am trapped.
    The pains are not small to me; Because when I went in freedom,
    I had it close by.
    From this castle, which is steep all around, I let my eyes wander
    And from the high tower floor I cannot take a look ;
    And whoever brings it before
    my eyes, It would be a knight or a servant, He should remain my dear friend ... »
    - GOETHE:« The little flower, beautiful : song of the captured count ».

Web links

Heinrich Murer: Chronicle of the monastery Wettingen. Cantonal Library of Thurgau , Y 115. Digitized

literature

  • Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. 5, Neuchâtel 1929, pp. 536f.
  • Georg Boner: The Count House Rapperswil in the last century of its history, in: St. Galler Linthgebiet, year book 1983 , Rapperswil 1983, pp. 10-20.
  • Erwin Eugster: Noble Territorial Policy in Eastern Switzerland. Church foundations in the field of tension of earlier sovereign displacement politics . Zurich 1991. ISBN 3-905278-68-5 .
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