Count of Nellenburg

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Nellenburg from the Zurich coat of arms roll , approx. 1340
Reconstruction of the burial place of the Nellenburger in the monastery of All Saints : In the middle Count Eberhard VI. , right his wife, Countess Ita († after 1100), founder of the double monastery of St. Agnes, and left her son Burkhard († 1101/02).

The Counts of Nellenburg were an important noble family in southwest Germany and northern Switzerland, but they died out in the male line in 1101/1102.

history

First line

In previous generations, the family was called Eberhardinger . The Counts of Nellenburg were the masters of the landgraviate of the same name . The ancestral castle Nellenburg near Stockach (northwest of Lake Constance) was the headquarters of the Counts of Nellenburg, who were related to the Burchardingen and who emerged as the founders of the Benedictine monastery of All Saints near Schaffhausen . Around 1101/1102 the older Counts von Nellenburg died out with Burkhard von Nellenburg in the male line.

Second and third line

The rule and name came through inheritance to the lords of Bürglen , who founded the short-lived second house of the Counts of Nellenburg, and around 1170 to the Counts of Veringen , who donated the third house after an inheritance in 1216. Before 1256 they united the area belonging to Nellenburg and Stockach with the Hegau . In 1422 the Landgraviate and the county came by inheritance to the Lords of Tengen , who sold them to the Habsburgs in 1465 .

Remaining the Landgraviate

From 1465 to 1805 the Landgraviate of Nellenburg belonged to Habsburg / Austria and formed a part of Upper Austria . In 1805 the Landgraviate of Nellenburg, part of the Austrian Empire and interspersed with several aristocratic lordships and towns, came to Württemberg with around 25,000 inhabitants , then to Baden in 1810 and finally to Baden-Württemberg in 1951/1952 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Nellenburgers are three stag poles lying on top of each other on a golden background. Mangold, Count von Veringen (1150 to 1186), married the heir to the Counts of Nellenburg and thus took over the Nellenburg coat of arms. And when Count Hartmann von Württemberg married the heir-daughter (Agathe?) Of Count Mangold von Veringen in 1195 , the Württemberg people took over the Nellenburg coat of arms, which became the coat of arms of Württemberg .

Known family members

  • Eberhard VI./I. von Nellenburg (* around 1015; † March 26, 1078/79 / March 1, 1080 in the Allerheiligen Monastery, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)), founder of the Pfaffen-Schwabenheim monastery in 1044 and the Benedictine monastery of All Saints in Schaffhausen in 1049, founder of the Grafenhausen municipality in the Black Forest in 1079
  • Udo von Nellenburg (* 1030/35, † November 11, 1078 in Tübingen), Archbishop of Trier from 1067 to 1077
  • Ekkehard II of Nellenburg (* around 1035/40, † November 24, 1088), abbot of the Reichenau monastery from 1071 to 1088
  • Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen (* before 1495, † 1539), Count and heir to the Counts of Nellenburg, Lord of Tengen with the County of Tengen and Lord of Wehrstein

Root list of the Counts of Nellenburg

A. Burkhard I. in Zürichgau (* around 915/20, † around 968)

A.1 Manegold I. in Zürichgau (* around 940/50, † 991)
A.2 Eberhard IV. In Zürichgau (* around 940, † 995) ∞ Gisela
A.2.1 Gebhart von Nellenburg (* around 950)
A.3 Gottfried II in Zürichgau (* 940, † November 12, 995)

1. Eberhard V. (Eppo) von Nellenburg (son of Manegold I in Zürichgau; * around 980/90, † February around 1030/34) ∞ Hedwig von Egisheim (* around 990, † after 1044; daughter of the count Gerhard von Egisheim (* around 970, † before 1004) and Brigida von Bayern (* around 975, † after 1004, saint, daughter of Heinrich II. (Bavaria) called "the brawler")

1.1 Burkhard II of Nellenburg (* around 1009, † June 18, 1053)
1.2 Manegold II of Nellenburg (* around 1010, † August 17, 1030)
1.3 Eberhard VI. von Nellenburg (called "the Blessed"; * around 1015, † March 26, 1078 / March 1, 1080) ∞ Ita (* 1015, † February 26, 1106), probably from the family of the Counts of Kirchberg
1.3.1 Adelhaid von Nellenburg ∞ probably Arnold from the family of the Counts of Lauffen ; * around 1030)
1.3.2 Udo von Nellenburg (* 1030/35, † November 11, 1078)
1.3.3 Eberhard VII von Nellenburg (* around 1035, † June 9, 1075), died near Homburg on the Unstrut
1.3.3.1 (?) Dietrich von Bürglen and von Nellenburg (* around 1060, † after June 6, 1108)
1.3.3.1.1 Eberhard VIII von Bürglen
1.3.3.2 Adalbert II. Count von Mörsberg and Dill (* around 1070, † August 30, 1125) ∞ daughter of Dietrich von Mousson from the house of Scarponnois .
1.3.3.2.1 Mechthild ∞ Meginhard von Sponheim
1.3.4 Ekkehard II of Nellenburg (* around 1035/40, † November 24, 1088)
1.3.5 Heinrich von Nellenburg (* around 1040, † June 9, 1075), died near Homburg an der Unstrut
1.3.6 Burkhard III. von Nellenburg (* around 1050, † January 21, 1101 or 1102) ∞ Hedwig (Hadewich) († after February 26, 1105; daughter of a count from Saxony)
1.3.7 Adalbert von Nellenburg (* around 1040/50, † soon after 1050)
1.3.8 Irmengard von Nellenburg ∞ Diethelm II. Count of Toggenburg

2. Irmgard von Nellenburg (* around 990/1000) ∞ Werner von Winterthur

N.1 Eberhard von Nellenburg (* 1243, † 1253)

1.1 Manegold von Nellenburg ∞ Agnes (daughter of Count Walter von Eschenbach and Kunigunde von Schwarzenberg )
1.1 Agnes von Nellenburg († 1325) ∞ Friedrich II. Von Zollern-Schalksburg († before April 1318)

literature

Web links

Commons : Nellenburg (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007.
  2. ↑ Hans Lieb: The year of the death of Burkhard von Nellenburg and the Meraldusurkunden, in: Schaffhauser contributions to history, vol. 50 (1973), pp. 39-47.

See also