Sanneck

This article deals with the noble family. For the German politician and trade unionist, see Albert Sanneck .

Seal of Ulrich von Sanneck

Sanneck (Slovenian: gospodje Žovneški ) (also Lords of Sanneck) is the name of a noble family that has been documented since the first half of the 12th century, whose origin and roots have not yet been properly clarified. Their ancestral seat is said to be the Sanneck Castle (Slovene: Žovnek ) in what will later be Lower Styria (today Spodnja Štajerska, Slovenia ) , from which they may have derived their name. It can be assumed that they are related to the Hemma von Gurk . What is certain is that they are the ancestors of their descendants who were raised to the rank of count (1341), who then called themselves Counts of Cilli .

history

Origin and possessions

The old Counts of Soune- Friesach - Zeltschach are named as probable ancestors by Reichel , other researchers speak of a highly free Styrian noble family. Slovenian researchers deduce the origin of the family of Proclaus / Pretzlaus (including Frasslau / Braslovče), one of the governors of Countess Hemma von Friesach , who was wealthy in the Sann and Saveg area around 1043 . According to another theory, Erich, Margrave of Friuli († 799), is the progenitor of the Sannecker.

Their name is derived from their ancestral castle Žovnek Castle / Žovnek ago, the south-west of Frasslau / Braslovče on a hill near the Sann valley is (Savinjska) in what is now Slovenia. It is said to have been built as early as the time of Charlemagne to protect against the Avars . The facility was still inhabited until around 1820, today it is in ruins. Name variations: Sanneck, (slo. :) Žovnek, Sannegg, Sanegg, Saneck, Saaneckh, Sounegg, Souneck, Seuneck. (However, Sanneck is far from the "corners" of the Sann across from Prassberg / Mozirje and Pragwald / Prebold , yes, it is not even due to the Sann.) In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Sanneckers also carried the title of Lengenburg ( Lemberg pri Šmarju , about 23 kilometers east of Celje / Cilli and about 7 kilometers south of Pöltschach / Poljčane ).

Between 1123 and 1130 a Gebhard von Soune is mentioned as a witness in a Spanheim document and again in 1144 in a Friesach-Salzburg document Archbishop Konrad's , probably identical to Gebhard von Dendeburch (Lengenburg?), Who is mentioned as a top witness in a document around 1138 .

Gebhard's son of the same name was a guest of Patriarch Ulrich II of Aquileia in Riez ( Rečica ob Savinji ) in 1173 and already called himself " von Sanneck ". The family had the right of patronage and the bailiwick over the large mother parish Frasslau / Braslovče and, as bailiff, the blood court over their subjects .

Leopold von Sanneck († 1286, ∞ Margarete von Heunburg ) moved to Rudolf von Habsburg's army in 1278 .

In the battle between Duke Friedrich the Fair of Habsburg Austria († 1330) and the Meinhardin Duke Heinrich of Carinthia († 1335), Ulrich von Sanneck († before 1318) joined the Habsburgs in 1307 together with his brother-in-law Friedrich von Heunburg and gave them 1308 his castles, the "houses" Seunek and Osterwitz in the Sanntal, the "towers" Scheynek and Liebenstein (the latter has now disappeared), so all his own property, and took it back as a fiefdom from them ( fiefdom until 1423). In return, Friedrich gave him all the castles and cities he had conquered in the Sanntal. When the Sanntal was ceded to Styria in 1311 , the fortunes of its family were closely intertwined with those of Styria. Ulrich von Sanneck had been married to Katharina, daughter of Count Ulrich von Heunburg († 1308) and Agnes († 1295) from Babenberg since 1288 ; he died before 1318 and was buried in the Seiz Charterhouse .

When the last Heunburger , Count Hermann, a brother of Katharina's, died in 1322 , her son Friedrich inherited part of the Heunburg estates, such as Schönstein / Šoštanj , Prassberg / Mozirje and Schalleck / Šalek (near Wöllan / Velenje ). In 1335 he came into the possession of the Heunburg rule of Cilli / Celje . For his services in the war, the Styrian Habsburgs pledged extensive property to him, for example around Tüffer / Laško and in Ratschach / Radeče in Lower Carniola . Because of his important possessions, Friedrich was raised to the rank of count by Emperor Ludwig IV in 1341 ( Count of Cilli ), but initially only with regard to his Gurk fiefdoms; the Styrian duke fiefs were excluded. It was not until 1372 that Emperor Karl IV. With the consent of the Habsburg Albrecht III. and Leopold III. the Styrian fiefdom was also included in the count.

For more history see: Counts of Cilli

In addition to their allodies, the Sanneckers also owned fiefs from Gurk , Aquileia and the Carinthian dukes, partly in Lower Styria and partly in the neighboring Windischen Mark (Lower Carniola). At times they also held the bailiwick of the Oberburg / Gornji Grad monastery , in which the Sanneckers also had their family grave in older times.

Tribe list

1. Gebhardus de Soune († 1154)
   1. Gebehardus von Sanneck († 1173)
      1. Gebhard von Sanneck († 1224)
         1. Liupold
         2. Konrad († 1255), minstrel , ∞ Sophia von Pfannberg-Peggau
            1. Gebhard († after 1291)
            2. Konrad
            3. Leopold († before 1286), ∞ Margarete von Heunburg , daughter of Count Ulrich II. († 1308)
            4. Sophia (1255, 1264), ∞ Friedrich von Pettau († 1288)
            5. Gertrud
            6. Ulrich († before 1318), ∞ I. Anna von Sternberg († after 1275), ∞ II. 1288 Katharina von Heunburg , daughter of Count Ulrich II.
               1. Ulrich († after 1308)
               2. Anna, engaged to Rudolf Otto von Lichtenstein in 1318, ∞ Otto von Emmerberg-Mahrenberg
               3. Friedrich I (* around 1300, † 1359/60), 1341 Count von Cilli , ∞ Diemut von Walsee († 1353/57)

coat of arms

Blazon: According to Kraßler, the coat of arms shows two red bars in a silver shield .

literature

• Rudolf Reichel: Styrian regional history. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1884
• Franz Krones : The Free von Saneck and their Chronicle. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1883
• Hans Pirchegger: Lower Styria in the history of their dominions and guilds, cities and markets. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1962
• Andreas Gubo: History of the City of Cilli. Ulrich Moser, Graz 1909

Web links

Commons : Žovnek Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Henner:  Erich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 204 f.