List of the Burgraves of Meissen
The Burgraviate of Meißen was first mentioned in 1068, when King Heinrich IV installed a burgrave on the Imperial Castle of Meißen. The Burgraves of Meissen were royal officials to document the king's claim to power. They represented a counterpoint to the margrave and the bishop on the predecessor building of the Albrechtsburg in Meissen . Several villages in the area were part of the rule of the burgrave. The Vogtland did not count later the castle county. Both had only one master in common. The burgraves came from the Meinheringer family and from 1426 on from the Plauen family .
The Burgraviate of Meißen should not be confused with the Diocese of Meißen and the Margraviate of Meißen .
List (incomplete)
| verifiable burgraves | from | to | Life dates | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich I of Wettin | 1009 | 1015 | † 1017 | Friedrich was Count von Eilenburg and was only appointed as Burgrave of Meissen for a very short time and only in emergencies in the years 1009 and 1015 (October 22 to November 19) |
| Burchard | 1076 | † 1076 | murdered | |
| Burchard II | 1114 | 1117 | ||
| Heinrich Haupt (Caput) | 1116 | exchanged by Heinrich V for Wiprecht von Groitzsch , Ludwig von Thuringia and Burchard II. | ||
| Hoyer | documented in 1180 | |||
| Burgraves from the Meinheringer family |
from | to | Life dates | Remarks |
| Hermann Sterker von Wohlsbach | 1170 | 1180 | * at 1143; † around 1171 | and nephew of the same name Hermann, Count von Wolfsbach and Schaumberg (* before 1152, † after 1177) |
| Meinher I. von Werben | 1199 | * before 1171; † 1217/1218 | ||
| Meinher II. | 1214 | * 1203; † after 1250 | temporarily with his brother Hermann II. (I.) | |
| Meinher (III.) | 1243 | † after 1297 | Son of Meinher II. | |
| Hermann III. | * before 1308; † before 1351 | Grandson of Meinher (III.) | ||
| Meinher IV. (V.) | * before 1308; † 1352/1355 | Grandson of Meinher (III.) | ||
| Hermann IV. | † after 1349 | Son of Hermann III. | ||
| Meinher V. (VI.) | * before 1308; † 1388 | Founder of the Hartenstein Line | ||
| Berthold I. | 1388 | 1398 | † 1398 | Founder of the Frauenstein line |
| Meinher VI. | 1398 | after 1401 | * before 1381; † after 1403 | Son of Berthold I. |
| Heinrich I. von Hartenstein | 1388 | 1423 | * before 1381; † 1423 | Son of Meinher V. (VI.) |
| Henry II | 1423 | 1426 | †† ⚔ 1426 | last Meinheringer, son of Heinrich I. |
| Burgraves from the Plauen family |
from | to | Life dates | Remarks |
| Heinrich I of Plauen | 1426 (1439) | 1446 | * 1387; † 1446 | originally Heinrich X. von Plauen |
| Heinrich II of Plauen | 1446/1447 | 1482 | * 1417; † 1482/1484 | In 1466, with the expulsion of Heinrich II, the rule of the Plauen people over the offices of Plauen and Voigtsberg , which the Saxon Elector Ernst received as a Bohemian fief , ended. |
| Henry III. from Plauen | 1482 | 1519 | * 1453; † 1519 | Henry III. In 1482 he finally waived his claims in favor of the Wettins , but still received the right for himself and his descendants to use the title of Burgrave of Meissen, which meant one vote at the Reichstag . This was given to him by Emperor Friedrich III. Documented in 1490. |
| Heinrich IV of Plauen | 1519 | 1554 | * 1510; † 1554 | |
| Heinrich V of Plauen | 1554 | 1568 | * 1533; † 1568 | |
| Henry VI. from Plauen | 1554 | 1572 | * 1536; † 1572 |
With the extinction of the older line of bailiffs von Plauen in 1572, the dynasty of the Burgraves of Meissen ended. After the Plauen people never reigned as burgraves, the title has now also passed to the Electors of Saxony.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the burgraves shows a black St. Andrew's cross on gold. On the helmet a golden square umbrella board, on it the cross, which is decorated with 5 peacock feathers at the corners. The ceilings are gold and black. This coat of arms was also used by the Burgraves of Merseburg , Naumburg (Saale) , Neuchâtel near Freyburg (Unstrut) and Osterfeld .
literature
- "Elisabeth von Meißen" , in: Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler Sachsens, 1919, p. 273 and Fig. 361
- Helmut Gröger: A thousand years of Meißen , Meißen 1929
- Johann Christian Hasche: Attempt of a history of those burgraves of Meissen, or diplomatic annals of the same. Dresden 1793 ( digitized version )
- Traugott Märcker : Das Burggrafthum Meissen , in: Diplomatically critical contributions to the history and constitutional rights of Saxony, 1 vol., Leipzig 1842
- Günter Naumann: Meißen history in data 929-1993 , Meißen 1993
- Hans-Jürgen Pohl: Stories and legends of the Meißner Land , part I to IV, Meißen 1996 ff
- Hans-Jürgen Pohl: The Burggrafschloss to Meissen - buildings of the Burggrafenhof then and now , Meissen 2000, ISBN 3-9806962-0-0
- Otto Posse: The Margraves of Meissen and the House of Wettin: up to Konrad the Great , Leipzig 1881
- Helga Wäß: "Burggrafschaft Meißen" in: "Form and Perception of Central German Memorial Sculpture in the 14th Century. A contribution to medieval grave monuments, epitaphs and curiosities in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, North Hesse, East Westphalia and South Lower Saxony "(Vol. 1)," Catalog of selected objects from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the 15th century "( Vol. 2), Bristol et al. a. 2006, see Volume 2: pp. 403-428. - ISBN 3-86504-159-0