Hopfenbach (noble family)
The Lords of Hopfenbach - Hmeljniški in Slovenian - belonged to the Uradel Krains . Valvasor classifies them in the noble families who belonged to the knighthood , but were already extinguished in his time "by name and tribe".
The family is first mentioned in a document in 1223, when the brothers Adelhold, Rupprecht, Pucelin, Friedrich and Friedrich the Elder with Heinrich appear as the owners or residents of Hopfenbach Castle (Slov. Hmeljnik). They were ministerials of the Weichselbergs until 1209 and those of the Andechs until 1228 .
coat of arms
Dušan Kos shows in his book Vitez in Grad a seal of Niklein II. Hopfenbach. A horse's head in the shield. The seal is kept in the Archives of Slovenia under the signature ARS ZL 1374 IX 12.
According to Spener, the coat of arms is said to have been taken over by Tschernembl . There the black head of Ross is shown with red geotextiles .
possession
The only possession of the Hopfenbach in Carniola was probably the castle of the same name near what is now Novo mesto in Lower Carniola .
Valvasor reports about it like this:
- “This is an old mountain castle and was previously the ancestral home of the von Hopfenbach family. Lies on a high mountain in Untercrain, seven miles from Laybach, but only one from Rudolphswerth.
- The name Hopfenbach arose from the hops, so that around in the wilderness it often grows by itself and unseeded. In view of this, the Crainerian language also calls it Hmelnik. Because Hmel means hops in Crainerian.
- The first-mentioned lords of Hopfenbach owned this castle for many years and had two brothers in 1223; also actually inhabited next to their other brothers.
- But at that time the building was differentiated and divided into two parts. One of which is called Ober-Hopfenbach. Mr. Adelhold von Hopfenbach owned the upper one and lived with him by three of his brothers, namely Friedrich, Ruprecht and Pucelin von Hopfenbach. But the lower part was owned by Mr. Friedrich the elder and his brother Heinrich was a co-inhabitant. So that six brothers lived together in this castle at one time, although there were only two real landlords and only one, namely Mr. Adelhold Castellan. "
Dušan Kos notes:
- “The structural duplicity of the mighty castle (two palaces with a tower and curtain wall ) has been proven, but also the representative late Gothic structural remodeling, which bears witness to the power and reputation of the residents of the castle at the end of the Middle Ages. The castle was built on a 507 m high hill above the town Karteljevo from which the area and the paths between Temenitz and Radulja monitored from the residents was possibly as early as 1223, a Ganerbenburg . "
Genealogy (based on Dušan Kos in: Vitez in Grad / Ritter und Burg)
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Children (if known)
- 1. Rupprecht, 1223–1246,
- 2. Puclin, 1223,
- Daughter, ⚭ Harbard von Auersperg,
- 3. Frederick I, 1223-1238,
- 4. Adelheid, 1223-1238,
- 5. Adelhold I., 1228, † 1253, ⚭ Bertha von Neudeck, Td NN (II⚭ 1254 Ortholf von Auersperg, brother-in-law of her son)
- Children (of Adelhod I, if known):
- 1) Frizel, 1300-1317,
- 2) Heinrich II., 1296,
- 3) Reiner I., 1296-1300,
- 4) Adelhold II., 1296, † after 1313, ⚭ Sophie von Hertenberg
- Children (of Adalbero II, if known),
- (1) Rudlieb, 1324, † 1348; ⚭ Sophie Jeterbek,
- (2) Laurenz I., 1324-1354,
- Son of Laurence I.
- Laurence II, 1383-1386,
- (3) (Albero (Albrecht) III., 1324–1376,
- (4) Henry IV., 1324,
- (5) Niklein I., 1319-1224,
- Son (of Niklein I)
- Niklein II., 1351–1397, carer of Möttling (Slov. Metlika),
literature
- Jože Grebenz, Gospodarska ustanovitev Stične ali njena dotacija leta 1135 (The economic foundation of the parakeet or its endowment in 1135). Samostan Stična, Ljubljana 1973
- Majda Smole, Graščine na nekdanjem Kranjskem / Lords in the former Carniola, Ljubljana 1982,
- Dušan Kos, Vitez in grad / Knights and Castle, Ljubljana 2005, ISBN 961-6500-82-1
- Ivan Stopar, Gradovi na Slovenskem / Castles in Slovenia, Ljubljana 1987, ISBN 86-361-0280-4