Konrad II of Pottendorf

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Konrad II. Herr von Pottendorf (* around 1240 , first mentioned in 1253 ; † between November 8, 1321 and December 21, 1324 ) was an Austrian nobleman from the house of the Lords of Pottendorf, who can be traced back to 1130 and in the Middle Ages in Duchy of Austria were among the most important families of the gentry. This is shown by Konrad's mother, Euphemia von Kuenring-Weitra, who descends from the most important Lower Austrian ministerial family , the Kuenringers , and who not only contributed significantly to the expansion of the property, but also to the expansion of the family, whereby Konrad II von Kreuzrittern and even descends from important imperial immediate dynasties. His second marriage to Hedwig von Goldegg gave rise to relationships with important families of the gentry in Salzburg and Styria .

Konrad lived in the Duchy of Austria at a time of dynastic upheaval, which required flexible loyalty. After the Pottendorfer had been loyal ministerials to the Babenbergs for a long time , only Konrad's father Rudolf III turned after their extinction in 1246. and later also Conrad II to the new Duke of Austria, Ottokar II. Přemysl Hereditary Prince, later King of Bohemia, in whose documents they appear many times. After the declaration of imperial ban against King Ottokar II, Konrad II and his brothers joined King Rudolf I and his sons in 1275 .

Konrad II became the progenitor of the branch of the gentlemen from Pottendorf zu Ebenfurth and Kirchschlag in the Bucklige Welt, who among his grandchildren divided into two branches - the one at Ebenfurt and the one at Kirchschlag, which became male almost simultaneously in 1484/86 and 1488 respectively Line extinguished. In the female line, however, descendants of Konrad II von Puchheim live to this day - especially through the Lords of Liechtenstein , the Lords of Puchheim and the Lords of Zelking .

origin

The Pottendorfer belong to the "Apostle families" of the Duchy of Austria, ie to the noble families who go back to the time of the Dukes of Austria, who died in 1246, from the house of the Babenbergs.

According to Witte-Hagenau, they were of noble origin, as they are derived from a boto from the Aribone family , the Count Palatine of Bavaria .

The clan of the noble Potons, whose most important centers were Pottenbrunn, Pottendorf and Aspan an der Zaya, is derived from this Poto von Pottenstein, who was wealthy in Tullnerfeld. His son Rudolf called himself after Pottendorf before 1136.

According to Enikels Landbuch, the lords of Pottendorf should serve as followers of the Counts of Sulzbach after the death of Count Gebhard III. von Sulzbach († 1188) entered the service of the Babenbergers, as their ministerials they can later be proven.

The earliest mention of the family is contained in the Klosterneuburg tradition code, where around 1130 Gertrud von Pottendorf, Rudolf's wife and her daughter Adelheid, who was married to Margrave Leopold III in 1114 . founded Klosterneuburg Monastery for the salvation of her husband Rudolf Gülten in "Wazichindorf" ( Watzendorf near Pulkau ).

Konrad's father

Konrad's father, Rudolf III. von Pottendorf († 1263) appears for the first time in a document from Heinrich von Seefeld in 1246 and lived at a time when after the death of Duke Friedrich II , called, the controversial († June 15, 1246); the last Duke of Austria from the house of the Babenbergs, the Austrian nobility split into two parties, one for and the other against the assumption of rule in Austria by Ottokar II Přemysl (* around 1232 - † August 26, 1278) ( King of Bohemia from 1253 to 1278) was after he had taken possession of Austria in 1251 and married Margarete von Babenberg (1205–1267), an heir to the Babenbergs' daughter in 1252 .

Rudolf III. von Pottendorf was clearly on the side of Ottokar II, since he took part in the Landtag convened by him - as the new Duke of Austria - in December of 1251 in Korneuburg.

Noteworthy is a great-uncle of Conrad II., Named Konrad I Pottendorf, called 1194-1223 repeatedly documented, pastor of Großrußbach in Korneuburg and cultural history is of interest because it by some as the author of the Austrian version of the Nibelungenlied viewed becomes.

Konrad's mother

Kuenringer coat of arms

Characteristic of the high status of the family was that Konrad's father Rudolf III. von Pottendorf married Euphemia von Kuenring, a member of the Kuenringer family , came from the most powerful Austrian ministerial family at the time, who owned numerous and very extensive estates in the Wachau and Waldviertel . Her father was Heinrich III. von Kuenring (* around 1185, † around 1233, buried Stift Zwettl) called "the dog", who played an important political role as one of the closest advisers and confidants of Duke Leopold VI. of Austria, was appointed Marshal of the Duchy of Austria in 1228 and was even appointed as administrator of the Duchy several times in the Duke's absence.

Euphemia was a resolute personality who directed the fate of the family in the 60s of the 13th century and was not only in constant dispute with the Zwettl monastery because it refused to bury her father in the family vault, but also the administrator of the bishop of Freising drove Hernstein out of the rule because she was convinced that her mother had inheritance claims to this rule.

Konrad's maternal ancestors

Falkenstein coat of arms codex

Via his mother Euphemia von Kuenring, Konrad II descended in a female line from a number of important noble families who go far beyond the usual circle of Austrian ministerials.

Konrad's maternal grandmother was Adelheid von Falkenstein-Neuburg (cl. 1222–1226, † after 1226). It came from the important Bavarian dynasty of the Counts of Falkenstein-Neuburg, which can be traced back to Patto von Dilching, Count of Weyarn in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach († around 1040). And which, in its heyday, ruled large lands in Bavaria but also as far as Tyrol , the Mangfall Valley , Lower Austria and the Chiemgau and owned the castle and rule of Hernstein near Baden near Vienna in Lower Austria in the Duchy of Austria .

Konrad's mother Euphemia von Kuenring raised hereditary claims to this rule, because she was a granddaughter of Count Sigiboto V, Count von Falkenstein-Neuchâtel-Hartmannsberg-Hernstein, Vogt of the Herrenchiemsee Monastery , (cl. Around 1155/1222 to 1226, † before 1231 ) and his wife († around 1196) Adelheid was Countess of Valley .

Ancestors further back

Adelheid Countess von Valley was a daughter of Count Konrad II of Valley († 1198/1200) and Countess Mathilde von Ortenburg († after 1198), who in turn was a daughter of Count Rapoto I of Ortenburg (* in the 12th century; † August 26, 1186) from the house of the Spanheimers and Elisabeth († 1206), daughter of Count Gebhard III. von Sulzbach was.

Count Gebhard III. von Sulzbach (* around 1114; † October 28, 1188) was with Mathilde († March 16, 1183), the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria Heinrich IX. (also: Heinrich the Black or Heinrich the Welf called), and his wife Wulfhild, who was a daughter of the last Duke of Saxony Magnus from the Billunger family , married.

Count Gebhard III. von Sulzbach was a son of Count Berengar I von Sulzbach and his second wife Adelheid († 1126) Countess von Dießen - Wolfratshausen .

The sisters of Count Gebhard III are remarkable. from Sulzbach:

Konrad II von Pottendorf therefore had ancestors and relatives who far exceeded the rank of members of the Austrian gentry.

Relation to the Crusades

In 1291, the dramatic end of the Kingdom of Jerusalem shook western politics, as on May 28, 1291 the then capital of the kingdom, the city of Acre , was conquered by the Mameluks .

This sudden end to centuries of Western religious and political ambitions in the Holy Land also hit Konrad II von Pottendorf personally, as he himself had relatives and ancestors who had participated in the Crusades .

This on the one hand through his maternal grandmother Adelheid von Falkenstein-Neuburg, since her uncle Kuno Graf von Falkenstein-Neuenburg took part in the Third Crusade under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in 1190 . After the death of the emperor, he joined the army of Duke Leopold V of Austria with other German crusaders , fought at the siege of Acre and fell there in battle in 1290.

There were two momentous events during this crusade: Duke Leopold V of Austria was insulted by Richard the Lionheart, King of England, by removing his flag, and at the same time - according to legend - the battle shield , the Austrian ancestral coat of arms, was created: Red-White- Red.

There is still a direct connection to the Crusades through Konrad's maternal grandfather, Heinrich III. the dog von Kuenring, because his father, Hadmar II von Kuenring (* around 1140 ; † July 22, 1217 ) Mr. zu Weitra , Zwettl , Gmünd , Kühnring , Zistersdorf , Hadmarstein, Aggstein castle ruins and also zu Dürnstein in the Wachau played one notable supporting role in the history of the Crusades.

This goes back to the aforementioned insult to Duke Leopold V by King Richard the Lionheart. Because when King Richard tried to cross Austria on his return from the Holy Land, he was recognized and captured by the Duke's people in Erdberg near Vienna, as the Duke also accused him of murdering Konrad von Montferrat - the King of Jerusalem, who was a distant cousin of the Duke, as there were rumors that King Richard was behind the king's murder on April 28, 1292 by two assassins .

Ruin Dürnstein

Hadmar II von Kuenring played a role insofar as he was master of Dürnstein Castle, which was considered one of the strongest fortresses in the country, which is why Duke Leopold V gave him the delicate task of keeping King Richard of England in his Dürnstein Castle to hold chivalrous captivity. This was safe. As a result, the great-grandfather of Konrad II von Pottendorf was the jailer of the King of England from January to mid-March 1193 until he then passed on to Emperor Heinrich VI. was delivered.

However, this was not the only relationship of Hadmar II von Kuenring to the Crusades, because in 1215 Pope Innocent III called. on the Fourth Lateran Council for the ( Crusade of Damiette ) to the Holy Land , which was to start on June 1, 1217 from Brindisi or Messina . Duke Leopold VI. von Austria decided to take part in this crusade with an army, which Hadmar von Kuenring also joined. On June 1, 1217, the crusaders broke under the leadership of Duke Leopold VI. from Austria to Split, where Leopold's army united with the army of the King of Hungary in August 1217. Hadmar von Kuenring fell ill and died on July 22nd, 1217.

Life

Konrad II von Pottendorf is indirectly mentioned for the first time in a document from Zwettl Abbey in 1253, when his father Rudolf III. von Pottendorf, with the consent of his wife and his sons, who were not named, transferred a meadow to the monastery.

In particular, Konrad I and his brothers were first mentioned in 1256 in a further document from Zwettl Abbey, in which the brothers - including the youngest brother Siboto - gave their consent to a foundation made by their father.

Konrad grew probably mainly in the in Pottendorf in the district of Baden in Lower Austria situated family seat of the family, and in the precursor building today ruinous baroque castle Pottendorf on, which goes back to Rudolf I Pottendorf that there around 1100 by order of the Count of Sulzbach , who dominated the area between the rivers Leitha and Fischa in the east of Lower Austria, built a moated castle, which is first mentioned in a document in 1130.

siblings

His siblings played an important role in Konrad's life, as he often appears together with them in documents. In the foundation book of the Zwettl Monastery , six children of Rudolf III. named by Pottendorf: Rudolf; Heinrich, Konrad, Siboto, Adelheid and Euphemia.

Konrad's eldest brother Rudolf (IV.) Von Pottendorf died at a young age around 1265, soon after his father.

Konrad's older brother Heinrich I called "the dog" von Pottendorf reached a great age, because he still lived in 1312/16 and was closely connected to his brother Konrad II. He owes his name "the dog" to his maternal grandfather Heinrich III. von Kuenring -Weitra, called "the dog." From his marriage to Kunigunde von Tubna he had two sons, Heinrich and Rudolf, of whom Rudolf was in the service of Karl I Robert von Anjou, King of Hungary (1308 until 1342) was Obergespan of Ödenburg County in Hungary . However, Heinrich I von Pottendorf did not leave any permanent male offspring.

Heinrich's daughters Adelheid († 1333) and Kunigunde were married to Gottschalk von Neytberg, while Kunigunde remained unmarried.

Konrad's younger brother Siboto von Pottendorf, who is documented from 1256 to 1309, obviously owes his first name to his mother Euphemia von Kuenring, who gave him the name of her maternal grandfather, Siboto Graf von Falkenstein Herrantstein and Neuchâtel.

Siboto became the progenitor of the younger branch of the Pottendorfer zu Pottendorf, which went out around 1488 with Friedrich von Pottendorf in the male line.

Euphemia of Konrad's sisters had the first name of her mother Euphemia von Kuenring, was married to Otto von Perchtoldsdorf , became a widow in 1286 and gave the Heiligenkreuz monastery goods that she had inherited from her husband. The other sister Adelheid had the first name of her maternal grandmother, Adelheid Countess von Falkenstein, was initially married to a gentleman von Zelking and then to Otto II von Liechtenstein-Murau.

This shows how important it was for the Pottendorf residents to refer to their high-ranking ancestors by naming them.

Change of dynasty in Austria

Konrad II and his brothers grew up at a time in which there was considerable political upheaval in the Duchy of Austria, because after the childless death of Friedrich II , the last Duke of Austria from the House of Babenbergs, one came about in 1246 Interregnum, in which several neighbors - King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia and Béla IV. King of Hungary († 1270) emphatically, somewhat undecided Otto II Duke of Bavaria (* 1253), to whom the Emperor had transferred the administration of Austria in 1248 - and Emperor Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen himself tried to succeed him in the duchies of Austria and Styria.

The Garsten annalist summed up the situation in a much-quoted sentence: "Abandoned from its princely house, Austria and Styria sit together like a country, sad and sighing in the dust."

However, the Pottendorfer managed to take advantage of this situation, since the Count of Eberstein, the imperial administrator for Austria and Styria appointed by Emperor Friedrich II, Rudolf von Pottendorf presumably enfeoffed the rule of Weitenegg .

The question of the succession of the Babenbergs was complicated by the female succession provided for in the Privilegium Minus from 1156, as there were a number of possible pretenders. Finally, two Austrian princesses stood in the foreground:

On the one hand Gertrud von Österreich (* 1226, † 1288), a niece of Duke Friedrich II, who followed in 1246 as Duchess of Austria and Styria, her first marriage to the Bohemian Crown Prince Vladislav Margrave of Moravia and, after his death in early 1247, Hermann VI. , Marries Margrave of Baden , who died in 1250 and was just as unable to assert himself in the state as the imperial administrator Otto of Bavaria .

On the other hand there was Margaret of Austria (* 1204/05, † 1266), the eldest sister of Duke Friedrich II. She was the widow of the Roman-German King Heinrich (VII) , lived in monastic seclusion, but was used to legitimize the Successor of Přemysl Ottokar II Margrave of Moravia , who had already taken possession of Austria in 1251, his wife in 1252 - although she was older than her father-in-law King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia .

For the Pottendorfer, as for other important families who had been the former Babenberg ministerials, these were difficult times that made careful maneuvering necessary.

Under Ottokar II

Ottokar Přemysl as Margrave of Moravia

The attitude of the Pottendorfer can be seen in the fact that Konrad's father, Rudolf III, took part in the state parliament in Korneuburg held by Přemysl Ottokar II, Margrave of Moravia after the land was taken over as Duke of Austria in December 1251 . Presumably he was also one of the aristocrats who had recently turned to King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia to stabilize the country. Konrad's father Rudolf III. was therefore undoubtedly a partisan of the King of Bohemia. This confirms the fact that it subsequently appears several times in important documents from King Přemysl Ottokar II, which he issued as Duke of Austria in 1252, 1257 and 1258

Under King Rudolf I.

In view of the growing power of Ottokar, who acquired Styria in 1261, Carinthia and Carniola in 1269, a turning point came after Rudolf I of Habsburg was elected Roman-German king , as Ottokar II did not recognize the election, which was against him led to the imposition of the imperial ban and, in Austria, to the apostasy of numerous families who turned to King Rudolf I.

The Pottendorfer also took this step, because Konrad II and his brothers appear in documents from King Rudolf I of Habsburg as early as 1276 and 1277 .

As prominent members of the nobility, the brothers are likely to have contributed to the drafting of the Austrian land law, which was codified in 1277/78 .

Whether Konrad or one of his brothers took part in the decisive battle at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen between King Rudolf and King Ottokar II on August 26, 1278 , is not known, but it is quite obvious, as he was one of the king's important supporters and later demonstrably military Functions.

In 1281 Konrad III owned. apparently the full confidence of King Rudolf I, as he appointed him a member of the 16-member council created for the administration of Austria.

Under Duke Albrecht I.

Statue of King Albrecht I in the Army History Museum

Albrecht I (July 1255 in Rheinfelden ; † May 1, 1308 in Königsfelden bei Brugg ), the eldest son of King Rudolf I, was born in 1282 with his brother Rudolf II of Austria († 1290) with the duchies of Austria and Styria , Krain as well as enfeoffed with the Windischen Mark , however, took over sole control of the duchies in 1283.

The documented news about the Pottendorfer at this time is very sparse.

In 1286 Konrad II acquired the Ebenfurth castle and estate from Jutta von Feldsberg.

In a dispute over the toll at Ebenfurt and the town of Ungardorf with the Heiligenkreuz Abbey , King Albrecht I, as Duke of Austria, decided in 1290 as the elected arbitrator that these possessions, which were previously under the monastery, should now be the free property of the Lords of Pottendorf .

Thereupon Konrad II confirmed in a document dated August 27, 1290 the Heiligenkreuz Abbey that he himself, not just Heiligenkreuz alone, was obliged to contribute to the defense against acts of violence on the Hungarian side because of the tolls to Ebenfurt and Ungardorf, as he did this had a fiefdom from the Austrian duke.

The fact that Konrad and his brothers militarily supported the new sovereigns from the House of Habsburg shows the fact that they were in 1291 under Albrecht I against Andreas III. went into the field, who ruled from 1290 to 1301 as the last king of Hungary from the house of the Arpads . The knight and well-known poet Seifried Helbling (* 1230, † in the 14th century) recorded this war participation of the Pottendorfer in one of his poems around 1290/1300:

"The Potendorfer alle dri / fund we staet each other bi, / close bi der Lita./dir: get lost from the worries gra / daz man urliugen sol: / they win sust and gladly /: win weiz unde korn./ landlord sant Margareten / and Mertinsdorf so get iu: from / a part of the Hungarian hab! / daz sult ir gladly subordinate./ her kuonrat, feeds: one hundred man, / her Heinrich and her Sibot / one hundred one got iuwer rott./ "

Konrad was also one of the four Austrian MPs who took part in the peace negotiations between Duke Albrecht I and King Andreas III in 1291. from Hungary participated.

In 1293, Konrad II received permission from Duke Albrecht I to rebuild Ebenfurt Castle.

In 1295, Konrad II von Pottendorf acquired Adelheid von Reinsberg's properties in Ebenfurt, Haschendorf , Sieghardsdorf and Hirsdorf.

In 1299 Konrad II, who had been a widower for a long time and was now around 60 years old, decided to have a second marriage and married Hedwig von Goldegg , a daughter of Otto Herren von Goldegg and Elisabeth Herrin von Stubenberg, a daughter of Wulfing Herren von Stubenberg auf Kapfenberg and Wulfingstein, district judge in the Duchy of Styria, + 1280 and Countess Elisabeth von Ortenburg , a daughter of Count Hermann von Ortenburg.

On this occasion, documents were created in 1299 in which Leutold and Alber von Kuenring and Hadmar von Sunnberg for Konrad III. von Pottendorf guarantee to Heinrich and Friedrich von Stubenberg that Konrad von Pottendorf will deposit the morning gift for his wife Hedwig von Goldegg in the amount of 1000 pounds Viennese pfennigs within a year.

Through this marriage, Konrad II acquired a considerable brother-in-law, as the Lords of Goldegg were among the most influential ministerials in the area of ​​the Prince Archdiocese of Salzburg and the Lords of Stubenberg were among the oldest and most powerful families of the lordship in the Duchy of Styria.

Among other things, Wulfing von Stubenberg († March 14, 1318 in Bamberg), the Dominican , became Bishop of Lavant in 1291 and was Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1304 to 1318 , one of the siblings of Conrad III's new mother-in-law. In addition, his daughter Katharina von Pottendorf married the youngest brother of his mother-in-law, Heinrich Herr von Stubenberg auf St. Peter, Höflein and Schladming , Schenk in the Duchy of Styria, † November 22, 1315.

Through this marriage, Konrad II developed relationships with the archbishops of Salzburg . In the years 1301 and 1302, for example, Konrad appears several times in documents from Archbishop Konrad IV von Fohnsdorf , who ruled from 1291 to 1312.

Konrad and his brothers also appeared in documents from their Austrian sovereigns, for example in 1304 in the series of witnesses to the treaty that Rudolf as Duke of Austria and Styria (a son of King Albrecht I) with Karl I. Robert von Anjou , King of Hungary graduated.

Konrad's reputation speaks for the fact that he was appointed several times as an arbitrator in disputes among peers, for example in 1289, 1301 and 1303 and also in 1305 where he and Friedrich von Stubenberg had a dispute between Wulfing von Stubenberg , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1304 to 1318 (his uncle by marriage) and Rudolf von Ras decides because of a guarantee from the Villach citizen Wulzen.

Around this time Konrad II also appears in around 30 testings in documents of other noble families, such as the Lords of Kuenring, von Ebersdorf, von Maissau, and von Kapellen.

Rebel against the sovereign

According to the Styrian rhyming chronicle of Ottokar from the Gaal , a Pottendorfer was one of the leaders of the indignation of Lower Austrian landlords, which after the murder of the Roman-German King Albrecht I (May 1, 1308) by his nephew Johann Parricida after the alleged refusal of the new king Henry VII from the House of Luxemburg to enfeoff the sons of the murdered man with the previous imperial fiefs, ie also with the duchies of Austria and Styria , and to renounce the sons of Albert I.

That the Pottendorfer mentioned is Konrad II von Pottendorf zu Ebenfurt; results from the text of the Styrian rhyming chronicle of Ottokar from the Gaal , which records that the governor of Austria, Ulrich v. Wallsee, on his campaign against the rebels (mid-October 1309) in particular devastated the surroundings of the two castles Kirchschlag and Ebenfurt - and thus the most important possessions of Konrad I.

Because of his participation in this nobility uprising, Konrad von Pottendorf may have lost at least part of the newly acquired rule of Kirchschlag. Perhaps, however, the rule of Kirchschlag was withdrawn from Pottendorfer Konrad II by Duke Friedrich the Beautiful, the older of the sons of Albrecht I, but without this court ruling by the young sovereign could be enforced in practice. The news that in 1330 the Lords of Haderswörth were given the rule of Kirchschlag as a sovereign fiefdom 35 speaks in favor of such a withdrawal, although in 1295 this was still designated by Iwan von Güns as a free property of Leutold von Kuenring-Dürnstein.

Last years

Konrad von Pottendorf also maintained his contacts to Salzburg later, because he appears several times as a witness in Salzburg documents in the years 1312, 1313 and 1314.

His relationship was also close because the Archbishop of Salzburg, Weichart von Polheim, called Konrad II in 1315 his "uncle".

In 1320 Konrad II confesses that Friedrich III. von Leibnitz , Archbishop of Salzburg, had given him, his wife Hedwig, the daughter of Otto von Goldeck and his heirs four Zehenthöfe in the Semriach area with all affiliation, furthermore 20 Marks money to Fladnitz and Leska against the right to repurchase 300 Marks of Graz silver; In addition, he and his heirs received from Hedwig the fiefs of Heinrich and Friedrich von Stubenberg, which with a few exceptions were settled with the archbishop.

The last verifiable attestation by Konrad takes place on November 8, 1321.

Konrad II von Pottendorf died after November 1321 and at least before December 21, 1324, because on that day his son Konrad (III) confirmed that Fritzel the Windischgrätzer, the clerk of the Archbishop of Salzburg zu Leibnitz, gave him 200 marks silver because of the Damage that his deceased brothers Alber and Heinrich von Pottendorf suffered while serving as archbishop in the fight against Bavaria.

testament

Konrad made his will as early as 1304 in which he decreed, among other things:

To his second wife Hedwig von Goldegg and his children from this marriage, Konrad, Otto and Heinrich von Pottendorf, he bequeathed the rule of Ebenfurth, which he bought from the Feldsbergers after the death of his first wife Katharina, as well as the property he owned from the woman von Reinsberg, from the Ottersteiners, the Streun , the Weissberger and Hartneid von Stadeck , as well as his own property and the market in Kirchschlag, furthermore the estate inherited from his mother Euphemia von Kuenring and the markets in Sollenau and Unterwaltersdorf and Brodersdorf, Orte, which King Rudolf had pledged to him for 1000 pounds of Viennese pfennigs.

Should Hedwig's children die without an heir, then the entire property should fall to the children from his first marriage.

possession

Pottendorf Castle

Pottendorf Castle from the northwest

In the Middle Ages, Pottendorf Castle - which had been the family seat since at least 1130 - played an important role as a border fortification and part of the defensive line of the Duchy of Austria along the Leitha River against Hungary. In 1246, Duke called "Friedrich the arguable" moved out of Pottendorf - probably accompanied by Konrad's father Rudolf III. von Pottendorf - against the Hungarians. According to the description by the minstrel Ulrich von Liechtenstein († 1275), who was an eyewitness to the fighting, the Battle of the Leitha took place near Ebenfurth or opposite it on the then Hungarian side (in the area of ​​today's Neufeld ). The Austrians were victorious, but Duke Friedrich fell in the battle, as a result of which the Dukes of Austria from the house of the Babenbergs died out in the male line.

In particular, Konrad II, as Lord von Pottendorf, is indirectly named for the first time in a document for the Heiligenkreuz Abbey from August 27, 1290, with which he confirmed to the Abbey that not only the Abbey, but also himself as the owner of the tolls to Ebenfurth and zu Ungarndorf was obliged to ward off acts of violence on the Hungarian side. The castle remained in the family's possession until the Pottendorf branch was extinguished in 1488. The castle is still largely preserved, but largely in a state of disrepair.

Ebenfurth Castle

Ebenfurth Castle, built over in the Middle Ages but essentially Baroque.

Ebenfurth in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Vienna Basin in Lower Austria , is one of the oldest castles in Austria, but was first mentioned in a document in 1263. It was owned by the Truchsess von Feldsberg, who died out in the male line in 1270, whereupon Jutta von Feldsberg inherited the wife of Gerhard von Opran (Obersezze) castle and rule of Ebenfurth. Since her husband wanted to withdraw to his Moravian possessions, the manor and castle of Ebenfurth were sold to Konrad von Pottendorf in 1286. Perhaps in view of the fact that Heinrich von Kuenring - a nephew of Konrad's mother Euphemia von Kuenring - had been married to Adelheid, a daughter of Albero Truchsess von Feldsberg, and owner of Feldsberg - the ancestral seat of this family, since 1277. As the owner of the castle and rule of Ebenfurth, Konrad II is expressly named in a document from 1293, in which Konrad von Pottendorf received permission from Duke Albrecht I to use the castle, which is located directly on the border, which was used in the battles with Hungary - perhaps as early as 1246 in the Battle of the Leitha - it was heavily devastated, to be rebuilt and re-fortified. Konrad also had a lucrative toll law there

Rosenau Castle

The Wasserburg Rosenau, located in the Waldviertel, of which only a wall is left today, was located about three kilometers from today's cadastral community of the same name and Rosenau Castle, which was built from 1593 in the city of Zwettl . It goes back to the Lords of Kuenring, who made a decisive contribution to the clearing and settlement of this area, and is first mentioned in 1194 in the possession of Konrad's great-grandfather Hadmar II von Kuenring. This castle came to the Pottendorfer family as the marriage property of Konrad's mother, Euphemia von Kuenring, and was bought by the brothers Heinrich, Konrad and Siboto around 1287 with their cousin, Leutold I. von Kuenring, Chief Schenk von Austria, Herr zu Dürnstein, Weitra etc. exchanged for his castle and rule Kirchschlag.

Kirchschlag Castle

Kirchschlag castle ruins in the Bucklige Welt

The Kirchschlag Castle served on the one hand as an important border castle against Hungary and on the other to secure the road from Aspang via Krumbach Castle to Lockenhaus Castle, which still exists in central Burgenland today .

Today it is an important ruin in the town of the same name in the Bucklige Welt in the very south of Lower Austria. The castle was first mentioned in documents in 1252 in the battles with Hungarian soldiers under King Béla IV of Hungary, who conquered the castle in 1254, after which it fell to the Counts of Güssing.

A family relationship between Konrad and previous owners can be traced back to Herrand I. von Wildon , who probably had Kirchschlag Castle built on a cleared area around 1180, because Gertrud von Wildon's marriage to Albero IV. Von Kuenring-Dürnstein around 1240 (* ~ 1210/15, † January 8, 1260) the castle came into the possession of the family of Konrad's mother, Euphemia von Kuenring.

In 1287, Konrad II von Pottendorf and his brothers Heinrich and Siboto von Pottendorf exchanged Rosenau Castle, which was part of the marriage property of Konrad's wife - Euphemias von Kuenring - with her cousin, Leutold von Kuenring, against his castle and rule Kirchschlag with everything Equipment. In 1304 he owned Kirchschlag alone. However, in 1309 he took part in the ministerial uprising against Duke Frederick the Fair, which led to his falling back into fiefdom.

Hernstein Castle

Konrad II also had family relationships with the builders of Herrenstein Castle. This is because the "nobilis Reginoldus de Herrandistein" mentioned in a document from the Göttweig monastery from 1125 was a son of Herrand von Falkenstein , who probably built the small Romanesque castle at the beginning of the 12th century and gave it his name. Konrad's maternal grandmother, Adelheid von Countess von Falkenstein, came from the Falkensteiner family, an old and respected family from Upper Bavaria.

Adelheid's uncle Kuno Graf von Falkenstein sold the rule to the Bishop of Freising in 1245. When Bishop Konrad appointed a steward on Hernstein around 1265, Euphemia von Pottendorf, the heir to her mother Adelheid, took possession of the castle. Despite the clear legal situation and the active processing of the Freising, the Pottendorfer kept them until 1380. At that time, Duke Albrecht III bought the rule, which he subsequently had caretakers administer.

Marriages and offspring

Marriages

Konrad II von Pottendorf's first marriage around 1260/65 was a woman named Katharina, whose family name has not been passed down. According to Karl Bednar, she was possibly a sister of Albert II. Stuchs von Trauttmannsdorf, since in a sales deed of November 30, 1308 Konrad I and his brothers Heinrich I and Siboto I von Pottendorf appear as his top witnesses and seals, and in one somewhat earlier document these three brothers von Pottendorf appear as witnesses immediately after Albrecht II the Stüchsen von Trauttmansdorf. This close connection is likely to be based on a marital relationship between Konrad and a sister of Albrecht II Stuchs. This is also supported by the fact that the eldest son was named Konrads Alber (Albrecht) and thus probably received the name of the mother's brother.

Konrad married Hedwig von Goldegg , (cl. 1320–1328) a daughter of Otto V. Herren von Goldegg cl. 1270, † 26.01.1301, established St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg , who came from an important ministerial family in the area of ​​the Archdiocese of Salzburg ud Elisabeth von Stubenberg, a daughter of Wulfing Herr von Stubenberg auf Kapfenberg etc., a district judge in Styria, († 1280) - who came from what was probably the most influential noble family in Styria - and Elisabeth Countess von Ortenburg († † after 1287).

Coat of arms of the Lords of Goldegg

progeny

The list follows the representation in the European family tables.

From 1st marriage:

  1. Alber (Albrecht) II. Von Pottendorf, cl. 1307–1324, ⚭ v. December 6th, 1312 Elisabeth Mistress of Maissau, T. v. Stephan I. Herr von Maissau and Margareta Herrin von Neuhaus
    1. Elisabeth von Pottendorf, cl. 1342, ⚭ v. 1325 Paul I. Count von Mattersdorf-Forchtenstein, Lord of Mattersdorf (Nagymartón) and Bajot, Lord of Forchtenstein (Fraknó), 1321 in Széleskút (Breitenstein in the Sopron district), 1328–1349 Judex curiae, deposed, 1346 Ambassador at the court of the Popes to Avignon , (cl. 1301, † 1349/51)
      1. Agnes Countess of Mattersdorf cl. 1339/64, ⚭ Peter I. Count of St. Georgen and Bösing zu Szentgyörgy and Eberhard, commandant of Pressburg, (cl. 1308–1365, 1367 †)
      2. Anna Countess von Mattersdorf (cl. 1340–1353, 1360 †) ⚭ 1340. Albero V. von Puchheim , (cl. 1331, † after September 24, 1383)
  2. Bartholomäus von Pottendorf, cl. 1323, theologian
  3. Euphemia von Pottendorf cl. 1338, † 13.03.1350 ⚭ v. February 24, 1331 Rudolf Herr von Stadeck † v. 06.12.1338 (kd N)

From 2nd marriage

  1. Conrad III. von Pottendorf zu Ebenfurt and Kirchschlag, (cl. 1322, † after 1350) ⚭ I. before 1327 Katharina von Polheim , sister of Hadmar and Friedrich Herren von Polheim, ⚭ II. Agnes von Rauhenstein, cl. 1344, sister of Alber and Hartneid from Rauhenstein.
    1. Albrecht von Pottendorf, ancestor of the Ebenfurt branch, † around 1394, ⚭ I. Anna Herrin von Pettau , & 2. Maria Countess von Hardegg
    2. Heinrich von Pottendorf, † around 1388, ⚭ Anna von Pillichsdorf
    3. Friedrich von Pottendorf, † after 1392, ⚭ I. Dorothea von Pergau, ⚭ II. Margarethe Countess of St. Georgen and Bösing, ⚭ III. Elisabeth von Eckartsau
    4. Agnes von Pottendorf ⚭ I. Peter von Ebersdorf, ⚭ II. Johann von Cheya
    5. Konrad IV. Von Pottendorf, ancestor of the Kirchschlag branch, † around 1396. ⚭ Elisabeth von Walsee
  2. Friedrich von Pottendorf, (cl. 1329–1335) ⚭ before 1330 Elisabeth Ne
    1. Heinrich von Pottendorf, (1360 †)
  3. Otto von Pottendorf, (cl. 1329/30)
  4. Adelheid von Pottendorf (1329/1330)
  5. Margarethe von Pottendorf cl. 1329/30
  6. Heinrich von Pottendorf († April 12, 1321/1322), born in Vienna, Minorite Church in Vienna
  7. Gertrud von Pottendorf cl. 1330, ⚭ Ludwig von Porcia
  8. Katharina von Pottendorf cl. 1330, ⚭ Heinrich von Herr von Stubenberg in St. Peter, Höflein and Schladming , Schenk in the Duchy of Styria, † November 22, 1315 (k.Ki.)
  9. Elisabeth von Pottendorf ⚭ Pilgrim von Puchheim.

swell

literature

  • Christiane Buzzi: The gentlemen of Pottendorf. Reprint from the yearbook of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler". Born 1982/83, The whole series, third part, Volume 11, Vienna 1983.
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  • J. Siebmacher’s Great Book of Arms. Volume 26: The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria. Part 2, edited by Johann Baptist Witting (1918), Verlag Bauer & Raspe, 1983, ISBN 3-87947-036-7 .

Individual evidence

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  18. ^ Christiane Buzzi: The Lords of Pottendorf. Op. cit. P. 82.
  19. ↑ Certificate. In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, p. 45 (the exact number is missing). Jahrb. Adler 1878, p. 95.
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  26. ^ K. Schrauf: Documentary contributions to the history of the nunnery in Tulln. In: leaves. 8 (1874) p. 115 f.
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  29. ↑ NÖLA Certificate No. 4444.
  30. ↑ a b Fontes rer. Austr. 2nd row, vol. 11, p. 265.
  31. ↑ Seifried Helbling, ed. By Joseph Seemüller, Halle 1886, p. 12, v. 145 ff. (Poem VI).
  32. ↑ Burgenland's document book (= BLUB) II. No. 366. P. 251 f.
  33. ^ MGH SS D. Chr., Vol. VS 568, verse 43840 ff.
  34. ^ A b Christiane Buzzi: The Lords of Pottendorf. Op. cit. P. 86.
  35. ↑ Styrian State Archives (STLA), documents No. 1588, 1589 and 1590.
  36. ↑ Siebmacher's Grosses Wappenbuch. Volume 26, The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria, Part 2, p. 268.
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  38. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica . (MGH) SS D. Chr., Vol. VS 1100, verse 84159 ff.
  39. ↑ STLA, Document No. 1671.
  40. ↑ Bednar 1957, p. 55.
  41. ^ Haus-Hof und Staatsarchiv (HHSTA), document 1324, December 21, Leibnitz.
  42. ↑ Lower Austria State Archives, Certificate No. 4447.
  43. ↑ See Dienst (1971), pp. 16-19.
  44. ↑ European family tables. Volume XVI, plate 27/28.
  45. ↑ After Ludewig: Reliquiae manuscript. Vol. IV., No. 268. Last print Luschin-Ebengreuth: The Austrian land law. P. 50/51.
  46. ^ Burgen Austria: Rosenau.
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  51. ↑ European family tables. Volume XVI, plate 17.
  52. ↑ It is missing from Christiane Buzzi. According to the European Family Tables, Volume XVI, Plate 34, it comes from either the first or second marriage.
  53. ↑ Siebmacher's Grosses Wappenbuch. Volume 26: The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria. Part 2, p. 21.
  54. ↑ Siebmacher's Grosses Wappenbuch. Lower Austria, part 2, p. 268.
  55. ^ According to Christiane Buzzi, p. 144, in ESNF XVI plate 34 is missing.
personal data
SURNAME Konrad II of Pottendorf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konrad I. von Pottendorf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ministerial nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1240
DATE OF DEATH between November 8, 1321 and December 21, 1324