Ronsberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Margraves of Ronsberg

Ronsberg is the name of a family of the Allgäu nobility , which was first mentioned in 982 as Lords of Ursin, was later raised to the rank of count and margrave and finally died out in the main line in the male line in 1212 .

Origin of the name

The name Ronsberg (also Rönsberg, Raunsberg, Ramsberg) comes from an elevation in Ostallgäu near today's market town of Ronsberg . The name of the elevation is probably derived from the name Rumesberg, which probably stands for "Man Ruom's Mountain".

history

Lords of Ursin

The first sure ancestor of the Lords of Ronsberg is the Swabian noble Reginhard, who in 982 testified that the town of Geisenhausen was handed over to the Augsburg Cathedral . Another ancestor is Rupert von Ursin, whom Abbot Dangolf von Ottobeuren (1000-1012) enfeoffed with the bailiwick of his monastery. This office was later transferred to Ruprecht's son, Reginhard von Ursin. Since the monastery Ottobeuren had many goods that bailiwick gave the Lords of Ursin considerable influence and power they regionally by baronial hinaushob families. In addition, Vogt Reginhard won the favor of the emperors, the dukes of Bavaria and Swabia , the Guelphs , the bishop of Augsburg and the abbot of Kempten . He received many and sometimes large fiefs from the Guelphs, the Bishop of Augsburg and the Kempten Abbot .

Reginhard von Ursin enjoyed the special trust of Welf III. , from the Swabian branch of the family of Guelphs and Duke of Carinthia, who named him on his deathbed at Bodman in 1055 as one of his "Salmannen", who were to hand over his inheritance to Weingarten Monastery after his death . Reginhard's son, Ruprecht von Ursin, gave the Augsburg Cathedral a gift in Haselach near Irsee around 1060 . Ruprecht von Ursin and a Reginhard von Ursin, probably a brother of Ruprecht, appear in 1074 as witnesses to a donation from Welf IV (around 1030 / 1040–1101), later Duke of Bavaria, to the Bavarian monastery Rottenbuch . Reginhard is also mentioned on December 31, 1099 as a witness to the handover of the newly founded St. Blasien Monastery . He was also Vogt of Ottobeuren and died in 1102. Rupert von Ursin went to the field in 1123 with Heinrich V (1081–1125), then Roman-German Emperor, against the Saxons and finally became a monk in Ottobeuren around 1130 .

Lords of Ronsberg

The lords of Ursin lived in Irsee Castle from around 980 . The sons of Reginhard von Ursin, Gottfried and Rupert, had a castle built on an elevation above the town of Ronsberg and henceforth called themselves Ronsberg. Around 1147, Gottfried von Ronsberg acquired the German royal throne through the first Staufer, Konrad III. (1138–1152), the count and took part in 1157 and 1162 in the state parliaments of the Bavarian Duke Heinrich the Lion (around 1130–1195) at Ranshofen and Karpfham . Count Gottfried von Ronsberg died very old around 1170. Gottfried's son, Count Heinrich von Ronsberg, stayed repeatedly at the court camp of the emperor and Welf VI between 1171 and 1182 . (1115–1191) in Augsburg and was raised in 1182 by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa to margrave as imperial prince . In the same year he donated the Irsee monastery and transferred large property to the Ottobeuren monastery near Herrenberg. Finally he accompanied Friedrich V, Duke of Swabia on a trip to the Rhine in 1188 and in 1191 Emperor Heinrich VI. during the conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily , when he died on September 6 of the same year of an epidemic in the war camp near Naples.

Gottfried II von Ronsberg, a son of Heinrich, inherited the bailiwick and the dignity of the margrave . This held in the struggle of the opposing kings Philip the Staufer (1177-1208) and Otto the Welf (around 1175-1218) consistently to the former and 1200 participated in its party congresses in Speyer . King Philip owed him 100 marks for his services and temporarily gave him the rule of Prutz in the Tyrolean Inn Valley as a pledge . Despite the papal ban, which was pronounced against Philip and his followers, Gottfried II accompanied Philip on his campaigns against Otto the Guelph until he died unexpectedly on May 11, 1208 in Augsburg. Gottfried's heir was his brother Berthold, who died childless on April 2, 1212 as the last of his house. Unless it was confiscated from the feudal lords , the inheritance went to his two sisters Adelhaid and Irmengard. Through Adelhaid, wife of Count Ulrich von Berg , the margrave dignity and the count's rights of the Ronsberger came to her son, Count Heinrich von Berg and later Margrave of Burgau . All other possessions of the Ronsberg family fell to Irmengard, the wife of Count Egno von Eppan († 1209/1210) in South Tyrol and then to her son, Count Ulrich von Ulten, who from then on often stayed on Ronsberg and referred to it as his “main town” .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms of the Margraves of Ronsberg is a soaring, silver, gold-crowned lion in a blue field. This coat of arms was also the coat of arms of the municipality of Ronsberg from the Middle Ages until 1813 .

The coat of arms can be found on the tombstone, which Abbot Paulus von Irsee had made in 1543 for the grave of the brothers Berthold and Gottfried von Ronsberg and which is in the church of the Irsee monastery . It is also contained in Siebmacher , 12th supplement.

Possessions

Dominion of the Margraves of Ronsberg

Among the possessions of the lords of Ursin-Ronsberg included, among others: Asch , Gottenau , Irsee , Lindenberg , castle Marstetten , castle Kemnat , County Hörtenberg , Castle St. Petersberg , Castle Auenstein and Ronsberg .

Ronsberg Castle

Ronsberg Castle

Ronsberg Castle was built around 1130 by the Lords of Ronsberg on an elevation above the village of Ronsberg in the Ostallgäu and was probably the most differentiated and largest of the almost 300 castles in the Allgäu. It had an area of ​​about 1.2 hectares and was an extraordinary length of 290 meters. The differentiation of the entire complex into Turmburg , Hauptburg , Vorburg and Vorwerk allows conclusions to be drawn about its various functions as the seat of the margraves . The decline of the castle began after the lords of the lords of the counts ended in 1254. Today only beginnings of the foundation walls are preserved.

See also

literature

  • Geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Swabia, second volume, second edition, Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm, 1801, p. 525 ff.
  • Franz Ludwig Baumann : History of the Allgäu, first volume, publisher of Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung in Kempten, Kösel, 1883–1894, p. 484 ff.
  • P. Luitpold Brunner OSB: The Margraves of Ronsberg. A contribution to the history of Bavarian Swabia, Augsburg 1860.
  • Gerhard-Helmut Sitzmann: The importance of Ronsberg during the Staufer era, in: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund, Blätter für Heimatforschung und Heimatpflege, number 95, Heimatverein Kempten eV im Heimatbund Allgäu eV, 1995, ISSN  0178-6199 , p. 69 ff.
  • Joseph Edlen von Sartori: State history of the Margraviate Burgau, Nuremberg 1788, p. 55 f.
  • Arnim Wolf: Heinrich the lion had a sister, in: Journal for Württemberg. State history 40, 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Swabia , p. 525 .; Karl August Barack (Ed.): Zimmerische Chronik , Academic Publishing Bookshop by JCB Mohr, Freiburg i. B. and Tübingen 1881, Vol. I, p. 26.
  2. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 487.
  3. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 485.
  4. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 486.
  5. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 486.
  6. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 486.
  7. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 487.
  8. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 488.
  9. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 489.
  10. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 494.
  11. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 492.
  12. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann: History of the Allgäu , p. 491.
  13. ↑ Hanns Jäger-Gunstenau: General index to the Siebmacher'schen coat of arms books, 1605-1967 , Akademische Druck- u. Publishing house Graz-Austria, 1984, p. 442.
  14. ↑ Gerhard-Helmut Sitzmann: The importance of Ronsberg to the Staufer time , p. 71.