Hadmar II of Kuenring

Portrait medallion Hadmar II from the Kuenringer family tree ("Bärenhaut", fol. 8)

Hadmar II von Kuenring (* around 1140 ; † July 22, 1217 ) was a ministerial nobleman from the Kuenring family in the Duchy of Austria and son of Albero III. von Kuenring In 1192 he held Richard the Lionheart , King of England, prisoner at Dürnstein Castle .

Hadmar II also built the city of Weitra from 1201 to 1208 . As early as 1180, he had a church built near Weitras - today's branch church Altweitra - around which the city was to be built. But 20 years later he decided to move the location for strategic reasons.

In the donor book of the Zwettl monastery , the so-called " bear skin ", Hadmar is often mentioned as a patron and benefactor of the monastery. The bear skin also reports on his death (fol. 25/26): Hadmar followed the call to the crusade , the Pope Innocent III. 1215 had announced at the Fourth Lateran Council and joined the Babenberg Duke Leopold VI. on. After the crossing he fell ill and died on July 22nd, 1217. His companions cooked the corpse to separate the flesh from the bones. They took the bones and, according to his wish, the heart and the right hand with them home with great effort and buried them in the Zwettl monastery.

literature

• Heinrich von Zeißberg :  Kuenring, gentlemen of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 298-302.
• Die Kuenringer - Das Werden des Landes Niederösterreich , Catalog for the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 1981, editor and publisher: Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Section III / 2 - Cultural Department, 2nd improved edition

Web links

• Entry on Hadmar II von Kuenring in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )