Roggwil (noble family)
The lords of Roggwil were a knightly family from the 13th to 17th centuries, named after the village of Roggwil in Thurgau .
The family shifted its focus in the second half of the 13th century via Arbon to Constance . The knights are isolated from 1201, moved in the vicinity of the von Arbon families and testified for the Bishop of Constance . In Arbon their track is lost in 1280, in Constance the family appears in the top group of the urban patriciate from 1262 . Ulrich (mentioned 1276 to before 1313), son of the hospital caretaker Jakob (mentioned 1262–1292), became the first of his family to become mayor of Constance in 1288 . From then on, the family sat on the council with brief interruptions until 1536. Rudolf (mentioned 1359-1365) and Ulrich (mentioned 1362-1399), who succeeded one another as city governors from 1359 to 1374, were particularly successful.
From the mid-14th to the mid-15th century, the family whose wealth was based on credit operations, earned a pledge and purchase, goods and advocacies in Hegau , Thurgau and Zurich Weinland , z. B. 1364 the castle and lordship of Kastel in the municipality of Tägerwilen, which after the political upheavals in Constance from 1370 to 1371 until the release of the pledge in 1453 temporarily served as a place of residence in keeping with their status. From 1433 to 1561 the Roggwil owned the former Hohenklingische rule Wagenhausen and from 1502 to 1553 the rule Schwandegg in the Zürcher Weinland.
Under economic pressure, the Roggwil liquidated their property in a short time in the middle of the 16th century. Members of the family moved to Zurich and Constance. The last representative died in 1632, Anna, abbess of the Cistercian monastery Heiligkreuztal in Riedlingen (Upper Swabia).
literature
- Martin Leonhard: von Roggwil (ministerial). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Municipal coat of arms . On the website of the Thurgau State Archives , accessed on December 7, 2019