Heinrich von Schwarzenburg near Rötz

Heinrich von Schwarzenburg is the first proven noble free of the older Schwarzenburgs at Rötz .

Life

Around the year 1054 (1048-1060) the name of Heinrich von Schwarzenburg appears in the donation book of the St. Emmeram monastery (Regensburg). The entry as Vogt of the monastery and the Regensburg church as well as his position as a top witness document his superior social position. There is no reliable evidence of his parents or his lifetime. A further certificate for Heinrich is currently not known. Then around 1060/1068 Count Ratpot von Cham appears as Vogt of St. Emmeram. It remains unclear whether Heinrich had given up the Vogtamt or died. In the Nekrolog (book of the dead) of the Regensburg Cathedral Church, the death of Bailiff Heinrich is recorded on November 22nd without giving a year.

Heinrich had several grandchildren, of whom Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne is the most famous and most powerful Schwarzenburg ever. The exact personal connection between Heinrich and Friedrich I by name has not been proven with certainty. A possible connection after genealogical combinations is the genealogical tables for Central European history by Dr. Wilhelm Wegener can be found (Plate 17 with explanation on pp. 190–201, pp. 152/22 and p. 238/3). A count's title is not mentioned in the unambiguous documentary evidence of the older Schwarzenburgs (1048/1060 - 1148).

literature

• Philipp Jedelhauser: The Noble Free from Schwarzenburg near Rötz , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 156 (2016), Regensburg 2017, pp. 95–124, here pp. 95–100, p. 108f.
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Necrologia Germaniae, Volume 3, p. 246 (Liber Oblationum Ecclesiae Maioris Ratisb.).
• Johann Paulus: History of the Schwarzenburg. Blackwihrbergverein Rötz eV, Waldmünchen 1964.
• Josef Widemann: The Traditions of the Hochstift Regensburg and the Monastery of S. Emmeram , in: Sources and discussions on Bavarian history, New Series 8, Munich 1943, No. 547, p. 294f. and No. 584, pp. 303f.