Hadmar III. from Kuenring

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Hadmar III. from Kuenring

Hadmar III. von Kuenring (* around 1185, † around 1231) belonged to the ministerial family of the Kuenringer in the Duchy of Austria . He and his younger brother Heinrich III. were important members of the emerging Austrian gentry, who, however, became known as robber barons under the name " The Dogs of Kuenring " because of their interventions in shipping on the Danube .

Life

Hadmar III. was born as the son of Hadmar II and Eufemia von Mistelbach in the 80s of the 12th century and appears in the sources from 1204 onwards. He and his younger brother Heinrich III. had risen under their father to the leading ministerial family in the country, which was wealthy with dominance in the Wachau between Aggstein and Dürnstein and in the Waldviertel with the center of Weitra . After the death of their father in 1217, Hadmar and his brother Heinrich expanded this important position.

Hadmar, who like his brother to the closest circle around Duke Leopold VI. counted, often traveled with him or on his behalf. As Leopold VI. suddenly died in 1230 during an attempt to mediate between Emperor Friedrich II. and the Pope , the nobility, led by the Kuenringer brothers , rose up against their young successor Friedrich II . The background to this uprising was the demand for confirmation of the rights of the ministerials, as was already regulated for the Styrian ministerials in the Georgenberger Handfeste . Despite the defeat of the rebels and the loss of their seats in power, the Kuenringers' power base was not seriously damaged.

However, the Bishop of Passau, had Gebhard I of Plain , because of the devastation of church property Passauer the excommunication on Hadmar and his brother imposed so Hadmar III. after his death around 1231, according to the Zwettler Stifterbuch, a burial in Zwettl at his father's side was refused, which is why he is said to have remained unburied for four years. Other sources say that he was buried in Zwettl in 1231 after the ban by Bishop Gebhard von Passau was lifted.

The fact that they controlled the shipping traffic on the Danube in the Wachau between their castles Dürnstein and Aggstein very idiosyncratic, earned them the name of robber barons and the nickname " The Dogs of Kuenring " in the legend , although this name refers to their maternal grandfather , Heinrich the dog from Mistelbach goes back, but it has shaped the image of the Kuenringer for centuries.

Marriage and offspring

He had three known children from his marriage to a wife who was not known by name.

  1. Albero V. von Kuenring (cl. 1241; † January 8, 1260) Lord of Dürnstein, Spitz , Aggstein, Zistersdorf, Wolfstein and Steyregg, 1240 Truchsess of Austria, 1246 Captain of Austria, ∞ before November 10, 1241 Gertrud von Wildon, († after January 20, 1260), daughter of Leutold von Wildon.
  2. Heinrich II. Von Kuenring 1249 Lord of Krumau am Kamp, 1251 Lord of Weitra and Bohemian Burgrave, 1251 Marshal of Austria, (cl. 1240; † Znaim May 12, 1293), buried in Zwettl Abbey. ∞ Kunigunde (von Dobra) cl. 1278/93, † Castle of Linz on the Danube (1303)
  3. Gisela von Kuenring, † 1266/1270, ∞ Schetzko von Budweis

Since all of his brother's sons died without an heir, Hadmar III applies. von Kuenring as the progenitor of all later Kuenringers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the European Family Tables, Volume XVI. Plate 27, he is referred to as Heinrich I. the dog
  2. ^ Uprising of the nobility against Frederick II of Austria
  3. ↑ European Family Tables, Volume XVI, Plate 27
  4. ↑ European Family Tables, Volume XVI, Plate 27
  5. ^ In the European Family Tables, Volume XVI. Plate 27, he is referred to as Albero IV
  6. ↑ Hadmar III. von Kuenring in the Lower Austrian Chronicle , accessed on August 16, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hadmar III. from Kuenring
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ministerial nobleman, son of Hadmar II.
DATE OF BIRTH around 1185
DATE OF DEATH around 1231