Lords of Markdorf

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The Lords of Markdorf were a family of noblemen in Linzgau , Baden , based in Markdorf .

With Hermann (1134, 1140), the Lords of Markdorf appear for the first time in 1134, in the wake of the Upper Swabian Guelphs . Since the end of the 12th century, the people of Markdorf oriented themselves politically towards the Counts of Heiligenberg and those of Werdenberg , the counts of Linzgau County. At that time the Lords of Markdorf had an appendix of ministerial families in and around Markdorf.

The 13th century saw the emergence of the town of Markdorf, supported by the aristocratic family, which was named civitas in a document in 1236 and which at that time was probably a market town. The town was formed next to the village of Markdorf (an der Mark ) and the castle of the Markdorfer lords in the second third of the 13th century, in 1268 it is called oppidum , the beginnings of a civil parish can be established around 1270/80. In 1354, the citizens of Markdorf received from Berthold von Markdorf († 1356) a privilege over the municipal ungeld and the death tolls of the Markdorf owners.

In the 13th century the Lords of Markdorf got increasingly into economic difficulties, since the turn of the 13th to the 14th century the Markdorfers only appear as milites (" knights ") instead of as before as nobiles (" noble free "). Divisions of property such as that after Ulrich Oswald's death among his sons Georg and Konrad probably worsened the economic situation. Georg and Konrad were supposed to lose their lives in a feud against the Lords of Rhäzüns in 1352 , and the Lords of Markdorf died out with their brother Berthold in 1356.

The Lords of Markdorf were related to the Lords of Raderich . The seals of both families showed a wheel with eight spokes, in 1294 the seal of Konrad von Markdorf (1269, 1303) showed a wheel with seven spokes.

The Lords of Markdorf were also related to the Lords of Homburg , who took over their positions in the Linzgau when the Markdorfer died out. Meanwhile, according to the document of King Charles IV (1346-1378) of June 21, 1354, the regalia of the coin, market (court) and customs in Markdorf, which were fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire and which the Lords of Markdorf had probably received before 1236 , to the Bishops of Constance . The town of Markdorf thus became part of the state rule of the Bishop of Constance.

Lords of Markdorf

  • Hermann (1134, 1140)
  • Bruno (v. 1138)
  • Heinrich (1185, approx. 1200)
  • Hermann (1185, approx. 1200)
  • Konrad (1227)
  • Oswald (1254)
  • Konrad (1269, 1303)
  • Ulrich (1269, 1289)
  • Ulrich Oswald (1331)
  • Georg (-1352)
  • Konrad (-1352)
  • Berthold (-1356)

literature

  • Hasso Prahl: The city of Markdorf in Linzgau. Constitution and administration from the 13th to the 16th century (= publications of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, series B, vol. 34), Stuttgart 1965, pp. 2–8, 15–25