Count of Hohenburg
The Counts of Hohenburg were counts from different families who ruled in the area around Hohenburg im Nordgau (in today's Upper Palatinate ) between the year 1000 and the year 1258 .
Live and act
At the beginning of the 11th century there is evidence of a Count Ernst ( comes Ernestus ) who probably owned Hohenburg. A family assignment of this count is not possible.
Another Count Ernst appears at the beginning of the 12th century. This Count Ernst probably descends from the Counts of Sulzbach , the Austrian Babenbergers or possibly the Count Adalbert von Rebgau . He is related to the Counts of Poigen-Stein (in Austria ), the Counts of Bergtheim (near Würzburg) and the Counts of Clamm (in Austria) and Velburg (in the Nordgau ). Count Ernst died around 1120. His unmarried sons Ernst and Friedrich bequeathed their rule to the Hochstift Regensburg in 1142 if they died without sons. Ernst died around 1162, Friedrich in 1178. Friedrich left behind a son of the same name, Friedrich II, who renewed his father's inheritance contract.
Friedrich II died childless in 1209, but his widow Mechtild von Wasserburg, the daughter of Count Dietrich von Wasserburg-Viechtenstein, refused to surrender the inheritance. In 1210 she signed a new contract with the Regensburg Bishop Konrad IV of Frontenhausen , according to which the rule should be for her entire life, then her son from another marriage and then his son. Around 1212 she married Diepold VII from the family of the Margraves of Vohburg , to whom she bore four sons and two daughters. The family then called themselves Margraves of Hohenburg .
The son Diepold VIII died probably already in 1247. The sons Berthold , Otto and Ludwig were important supporters of the Staufer and played an important role in the administration of southern Italy and Sicily . They died in prison between 1256 and 1258.
In the Manessische Liederhandschrift a Margrave von Hohenburg is listed as a minstrel . An exact assignment to a specific margrave is not possible, but it is assumed that this is Berthold, son of Diepold VII.
After the death of the four sons of Mechthild, the rule of Hohenburg passed to the Hochstift Regensburg and the title of Count or Margrave of Hohenburg was no longer used.
literature
- Friedrich Spörer: Historical guide through Hohenburg and the immediate vicinity , Michael Laßleben, Oberpfalz-Verlag, Kallmünz 1935
- European family tables