County of Pfullendorf

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The county of Pfullendorf with the main town Pfullendorf in what is now southern Baden-Württemberg existed from the end of the 11th century to the end of the 12th century.

The Pfullendorfer Counts are a branch line of the Udalrichinger family . These belonged to the imperial nobility and had been wealthy in the Lake Constance area since the second half of the 8th century and gained great influence there. The Pfullendorfer's possession center was north of Lake Constance in Linzgau , Hegau and Vorarlberg . The first name bearer mentioned in a document is Count Ludwig von Pfullendorf, who was named several times between 1067 and 1116 as the owner of the county in Hegau. His son of the same name Ludwig von Pfullendorf was abbot of the Reichenau monastery from 1131 until his murder in 1135 . Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf , who appeared for the first time when the Salem Monastery was founded, became part of the later Emperor Barbarossa from 1152 onwards . This enabled him to expand his family's power base to include the rulers of Bregenz and Lindau, Rheineck Castle , the bailiwick of the Chur diocese and the St. Gallen Abbey . After the death of his son Berthold in 1167, he appointed the emperor as heir. Count Rudolf moved to the Holy Land , where he died on January 9, 1181.

The family of the Counts von Pfullendorf included:

  • Ludwig, Count von Pfullendorf, mentioned several times between 1067 and 1116
  • Gero, † 1086/1116, Count of Pfullendorf
  • Ulrich, attested in 1111/55, Count im Hegau , Count von Ramsberg ; ∞ Adelheid von Bregenz, * before 1097, † before June 28, 1125, daughter of Urich X. Count von Bregenz ( Udalrichinger )
    • Rudolf , † January 9, 1181, Count of Ramsberg, Count of Pfullendorf, Count of Bregenz, Count of Lindau , Vogt of Sankt Gallen , ∞ around 1150 Elisabeth, soror ducis Welf (i.e. probably a sister of Duke Welf VII. )
    • Ulrich, Count of Pfullendorf 1157/58
    • Arnold, 1164/65

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