List of Friedberg Burgraves

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The Friedberger Burggrafen list includes all verifiable burgraves of the Reichsburg Friedberg as the center of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg .

Rudolf von Sachsenhausen , detail from the tombstone in the Frankfurt Cathedral
Coat of arms of the burgrave Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach in the Salbuch of the Naumburg monastery
Grave slab of burgrave Johann Brendel von Homburg (d. 1569) in the courtyard of the Wetterau Museum
Hermann Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1682–1745)
Portraits of the three last Friedberg burgraves in the Wetterau Museum , v. l. To the right: Franz Heinrich von Dalberg , Johann Maria Rudolf Reichsgraf Waldbott von Bassenheim , Clemens August von Westphalen .

The office of burgrave is mentioned in the earliest document in 1216 and has been understandable since that time. It was first installed by the king, and it was not until the middle of the 14th century that an election took place that had to be confirmed by the king. Since then, the election has been for life.

The burgrave was in charge of the castle team in all matters: he was both a military commander, supreme representative and judge of the castle court. From the beginning, his office extended to the imperial city, where he was the highest representative of the head of the empire (in the 14th century: the empire bailiff ) at the head of the city officials and - as in the castle - was the chief judge. The burgrave repeatedly carried out orders from the king outside the area of ​​the castle and town.

Verifiable burgraves between 1216 and 1806:

literature

  • Walter Möller: The seals of the oldest Frankfurt mayors and other Reich officials . In: Quarterly sheets of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . New series 6. Darmstadt 1922, pp. 117–122 (121).
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack: Friedberg Castle in the Old Kingdom: Studies on its constitutional and social history between the 15th and 19th centuries = sources and research on Hessian history 72. Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission. Darmstadt 1988. ISBN 3-88443-161-7
  • Thomas Schilp : The Reichsburg Friedberg in the Middle Ages. Studies of their constitution, administration and politics. Bindernagel, Friedberg 1982, ISBN 3-87076-035-4 ( Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 31 , also dissertation Uni Marburg), esp. Pp. 84-100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schilp, pp. 84-86.
  2. ↑ Schilp, pp. 90f.
  3. ↑ Schilp, pp. 87-90; Rack, p. 401, table 16.
  4. ↑ Writings of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1950, Hiersemann - Google Books
  5. ↑ In older literature he was assigned to the von Praunheim family . However, this assignment is incorrect. Compare: Euler: The Lords of Sachsenhausen and Praunheim. A genealogical attempt . In: Archive for Frankfurt History and Art 1854, p. 57.
  6. ↑ Möller, p. 121f.
  7. ↑ a b c Möller, p. 122.