Hugo I. (Montfort)

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Grave slab of Count Hugo I of Montfort. Drawing by Gabriel Bucelin 1642

Hugo I von Montfort († 1228 ) was Count of Bregenz and Montfort from the dynasty of the Count Palatine of Tübingen and therefore called himself Hugo III until around 1207 . from Tübingen . He founded the new, independent Montfort line . The house of Montfort took over the Palatine coat of arms with changed coat of arms colors.

family

His first marriage was to Mechthild, a daughter from the von Eschenbach-Schnabelburg family. In his second marriage he married Mechthild von Wangen, daughter of Friedrich.

Children from the 1st marriage

  • Rudolf I († September 1244/7 October 1247)
  • Wilhelm Dompropst zu Chur († September 20, 1237)
  • Hugo II († August 11, 1260)

Children from the 2nd marriage

  • Heinrich , Bishop of Chur (Elekt 1251; 1268–1272) († November 14, 1272)
  • Friedrich Canon of Constance († March 12, 1285)
  • Agnes heiress von Wiesberg ∞ Schwicker von Ramosch
  • Daughter ∞ Walter von Vaz († 1253)
  • Elisabeth († after 1268) first married to Manegold Graf von Nellenburg-Veringen, second marriage to Heinrich Graf von Werd, Landgrave in Alsace († 1238) and third marriage to Emich Wildgraf in Kyrburg († 1284)

Live and act

The Schattenburg over Feldkirch

He moved his rulership center from Bregenz to the newly founded city of Feldkirch in order to increase his influence in Raetia and especially in the Diocese of Chur . Around 1200 he had the Schattenburg built on a hill above the city .

Captured by the idea of the crusade , Hugo I tried to expand pass traffic across the Alps, founded a Johanniter-Kommende in Feldkirch in 1218 and created the first steps towards territorial rule in Vorarlberg.

After the death of his father he inherited the county of Bregenz-Montfort from his mother and took his seat at Montfort Castle , which his maternal grandfather, Count Rudolf von Bregenz , called his "urbem". The division of the estate was not carried out so strictly that Hugo would not have received any share in the old family estate and his brother Count Palatine Rudolf I would not have received any shares in the county brought by their mother.

Hugo still had his share of the patronage of the church in Meimsheim and the village of Weil im Schönbuch at the time of the foundation of the Bebenhausen Monastery , and Rudolf I also had a share in the Bregenz possessions according to a certificate from Tschudius. The house of Tübingen inherited some of the Bregenz (Montfort) possessions and still owned them at the end of the 13th century. According to Tschuduis (I, 107,108), Count Hugo von Montfort and his biological brother, Count Palatine Rudolf von Tübingen, and their mother had an estate near Breitenau in the Thur Valley, near the St. Johann monastery, this monastery with the approval of two knights from Gandersweiler given. After the monastery had had the same for a long time, Hugo snatched it from him again, to whom it had fallen during the division of the estate that had meanwhile been carried out, but gave it back to the monastery in 1209 before an arbitration court appointed by the Pope against 67 marks silver.

In September 1218, with the express permission of King Friedrich II. (HRR), he founded the Johanniter Coming in Feldkirch in Ulm , to which he transferred the Johanneskirche he had donated as well as goods in the near and distant vicinity of the city, including a chapel in Klostertal . Feldkirch developed under Hugo I to the central place of his rule, as he stimulated the traffic over the Arlbergpass and promoted the development of the state in the southern part of Vorarlberg.

He probably died in the Holy Land or on the way there.

His grandson Friedrich Wildgraf von Kyrburg († after 1310 ), was provincial master or grand prior of the Templar Order for Upper Germany, Emicho Wildgraf von Kyrburg († 1311), another grandson, officiated as Bishop of Freising.

literature

  • Andreas Arzet: Montfortic ceder or family tree: origin and tradition, stories and deeds, country and people of the Counts of Montfort . Arranged by Julian Schulz. Edited by Stefan Feucht, Elmar L. Kuhn and Alois Niederstätter. Eggingen 2018 (= Documenta suevica 26), ISBN 3-86142-605-6 , pp. 545-548.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo I. von Tübingen, Count of Bregenz and Montfort , according to Genealogical Handbook of Swiss History, Volume I, page 150, quoted by Manfred Hiebl.
  2. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: Montfort, Count of (Catholic). Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997), pp. 51-54.
  3. ↑ a b Dr. L. Schmid: History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen, 1853, page 118, quoted by Manfred Hiebl.
  4. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister :  Count Hugo I. von Montfort. On the founding history of the city of Feldkirch. :  Montfort. Quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlberg , year 1992, p. 83 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mft
  5. ↑ Vorarlberg Chronicle.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count Palatine Hugo III. from Tübingen; Hugo I of Montfort
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Montfort-Feldkirch from the family of the Count Palatine of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1228
Place of death unsure: Holy Land