Reinprecht IV. From the ditch

The former Graben Castle in 1679

Reinprecht IV. Vom Graben (the younger) , as well as Reinprecht ab dem Graben , Lord of Am Graben and Alt-Grabenhofen (* before 1396 at Castle Alt-Grabenhofen ; † after 1468), was a Styrian nobleman from the Lords of Graben , as well as the last male representative of the Conradinian line on the Graben in and around Graz .

biography

Coat of arms of the Krainer trunk line as well as the Konradin line on the moat

His parents were Georg vom (ab dem) Graben († 1439) and Creszentia von Stainach . A cousin of his father was Konrad II vom (from the) Graben , who could have acted as ancestral lord of the counts and princes of the Orsini-Rosenberg .

Reinprecht's first documentary mention dates back to 1396, when he, together with his brother or cousin Ulrich dem Grabner, sealed his guardianship reverse to the Spital am Pyhrn . It can therefore be assumed that Reinprecht IV. Appeared there as an imperial caretaker or burgrave . In 1410 he appears as a draftsman in a sales deed of his uncle Reinprecht III. from (from) the ditch to his cousin Cholman von Windisch-Graetz .

In 1410 Reinprecht IV did not have his own seal, so the Graz city judge Hans der Stetner sealed it for him. In the documents that followed, Reinprecht IV had signed the coat of arms of the trench with sloping beams. The deed of the sale of the Graben hereditary estates and Walsee fiefs to the Graz patrician Caspar Zinser dates from 1456 . The considerable property was on the upper and lower moat near Graz and consisted of six farms , a Hofmarch and Stadl, a vineyard and a few fields on the Mur, meadows and a quarry. Here Reinprecht IV appeared together with his mother Crescentina and his brother Wolfgang as a seller. He is also mentioned together with Wolfgang in a deed of sale in 1456 as a seller of goods on the upper and lower trenches, which were in the lordship of Alt-Grabenhofen , for himself and their uncle Andrä Breuner . In 1468 Reinprecht IV had a beautiful red Marbl tombstone opened in the Graz parish church for his father, who died in 1439 .

With the death of Reinprecht IV after 1468, the Konradinische Linie Am Graben , which was wealthy on Grabenhofen and in and around Graz, died out. Alt-Grabenhofen came (by inheritance? ) To the Kornberg line of the Lords of Graben, where it remained until the death of Andrä von Graben in 1556, and afterwards, through his sister Anna von Graben and her husband Christoph von Stadl, in the possession of the later Imperial Count Von Stadel-Kornberg arrived. The Hof am Graben was already owned by Reinprecht's cousin Affra Hann, nee. vom (ab dem) Graben (Grabner) († before 1458) by inheritance to the Hann and then to the Fladnitz .

literature

• Adalbert Sikora: The gentlemen from the pit in the magazine of the historical association for Styria. 51st year, Graz 1960. On pages 52–55 and on p. 90

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Orsini and Rosenberg (registration required)
2. ↑ Google Book Search: Mittheilungen, issues 5-8, p. 195. From Historischer Verein für Steiermark
3. ^ City of Graz, building history of Grabenstrasse