Hugo I of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg

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Seal of the Upper Swabian bailiff, Count Hug von Werdenberg with the Montfortsch church flag in the shield

Count Hugo I. von Werdenberg-Heiligenberg († December 7, 1280 ) was a count who descended from the Count Palatine of Tübingen through the Counts of Montfort .

Live and act

Count Hugo I was a son of Rudolf I of Montfort-Werdenberg († 1243). He and his brother Hartmann I. von Werdenberg were first mentioned as a witness in a Kiburg document in 1254 . His mother Clementa was a sister of Count Hartmann the Younger von Kiburg , which is why the name Hartmann came into the Werdenberg family for the first time.

Count Hugo I, together with Count Rudolf I von Habsburg , the nephew of the older Count Hartmann von Kiburg , took over the guardianship of the Kiburg heiress Anna, the daughter of the younger Hartmann. In this position he was often mentioned in documents from 1264 to 1272 in connection with the Habsburgs. The two counts also found themselves together in a feud against Count Rudolf I of Montfort and won the Abbot of St. Gallen , Berchtold von Falkenstein , as their ally in 1267 or 1271.

After Count Rudolf I of Habsburg was elected King of Rome, he entrusted his friend Werdenberger with the bailiwick of Upper Swabia with the task of reclaiming what was alien to the rich man. As early as March 14, 1274, Hugo registered as judex provincialis superioris Sveviae and took over - usually under the title of landgrave - the administration of these areas until his death. On the campaign against Ottokar of Bohemia he stood by King Rudolf's side and afterwards often appeared as a witness in his surroundings. The purchase of Heiligenberg was brokered by Rudolf. Hugo used an ambiguous election of abbot in the monastery of St. Gallen to bring the large court of Bütswil and the town of Lichtensteig in the Thur Valley into his hand as a pledge and thereby gain a permanent position in the middle of the territory of the powerful Toggenburg counts .

family

He married Mechtild von Neuffen and had the following children with her:

  • Count Hugo II of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg ∞ Eufemia von Ortenburg
  • Adelheid von Werdenberg ∞ Johann I von Lichtenberg (grave plate 22 in Lichtenberg, after 1343)
  • Sophie von Werdenberg
  • Katharina von Werdenberg
  • Johanna von Werdenberg
  • Adelheid von Werdenberg ∞ Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg

As head of the Werdenberg family, he was the guardian of the three sons of his brother Hartmann von Werdenberg-Sargans, who died early (before 1271).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hermann Wartmann:  Werdenberg, Count of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 749-759.
  2. ↑ Geneall.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo I of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugo von Werdenberg; Hug von Werdenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1280