Hohenegg (noble family)
The Hoheneggers at Hohenegg Castle
The noble family of the Barons von Hohenegg , which can be traced back to the Lords von Rettenberg through the Trauchburger family, was widespread and wealthy in the Allgäu . Their ancestral home was Hohenegg Castle near Ebratshofen in the Westallgäu . The origin of the castle is unclear; it was first mentioned in 1171 and served as the residence of the Lords of Hohenegg. The family was already considered noble in the 12th and 13th centuries . The Lords of Hohenegg were initially ministerials to the Counts of Veringen . Since the 14th century, they were part of the rich immediate lower nobility or Reichsritterschaft of Upper Swabia .
In 1359 the Hoheneggians sold Hohenegg Castle and other territories that together formed the Hohenegg dominion to Count Wilhelm III. from Montfort-Bregenz . Hohenegg Castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. Today only a few remains of the wall and a memorial plaque can be found at the place where the castle stood.
The Hohenegger at Vilsegg Castle
Between 1269 and 1284 the Hoheneggers were enfeoffed with the rule of Vils by the prince monastery of Kempten . From 1313 they took their permanent seat at Vilsegg Castle, which they held until the family died out in 1671.
Peter (I.) von Hohenegg was the first to call himself “zu Vilsegg”. He had Eisenberg Castle built around 1300 and probably lived here for most of the time. Peter was married to Margareta von Starkenberg and to Agnes von Ehrenfels) or Hohenfels in 1356 he died.
From his three sons Andreas, Hans and Berthold the latter received castle and rule Eisenberg. This property came through the marriage of Berthold's daughter Anna soon before 1376 to Friedrich von Freyberg-Angelberg, who called himself "von Freyberg-Eisenberg " in succession . The brothers of Berthold von Hohenegg, Andreas and Hans, retained the rule of Vilsegg, which they administered together. Andreas founded the parish of Vils. He was allegedly married to Margaretha von Freyberg-Eisenberg, but this cannot be true because the Freyberg-Eisenberg line came about later.
The Hoheneggian lineage was continued by his brother Hans and his son Peter (II.), Who died in 1448.
Peter (II.) Had two sons, Walter and Rudolf. In 1450 they divided their property among themselves, so that now two branches emerged, the Walter line and the Rudolf line. The former died out in 1594, the latter in 1671.
literature
Felix Schmitt: The Nobiles of Hohenegg . In: The castle on the Eisenberg , ed. Association for the preservation of the ruins of Eisenberg 1990, p. 18f
Martin Bitschnau - Rudolf Palme: Vilseck . In: Oswald Trapp: Tiroler Burgenbuch, Oberinntal and Ausserfern (Vol. VII), Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1986 ISBN 88-7014-391-0
Richard Lipp: On becoming the Ausserfern , Part II: The independent Imperial Knighthood of Vils and the Lower Court of Aschau. In: Extra Verren 2007 (Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District) ISSN 1992-0261 , p. 125
See also
Web links
- Karl Heinz Burmeister: Hohenegg, rule . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Bradler: Studies on the history of ministeriality in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia. Göppingen 1973. p. 244f.
- ↑ Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr-Hortenburg, The Golden Chronicle of Hohenschwangau, 1842, Appendix, panel V
- ^ A b Dorothea Schretter: Peter von Hohenegg zu Vilsegg - His ancestors and descendants. In: Rupert Bader: Carried through the centuries - 600 years of the parish of Vils, ed. Rupert Bader (self-published), p. 66ff