Lakes (noble family)
Seen (also Sehaim , Sehym , See , Sehm ) is the name of an aristocratic family that emerged from the ministerial family and is named after the formerly independent community of Seen (now the city district of Winterthur ). Mentioned for the first time in 1207, the family probably first had its seat in Seen, but later moved its work to Höngg , where it was active from around 1300 to 1359. From 1315 to 1405 they were the masters of the Wülflingen lordship with their seat at Alt-Wülflingen Castle .
history
On September 27, 1207, "Siegfried de Sehaim" appears as a witness for a donation from Albert von Hohenlohe on the patronage right of the church in Mergentheim to the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Jerusalem. In 1219 Siegfried von Seen appears together with his father Heinrich as a witness for von Hohenlohe in a document . In 1240 the Lords of Lakes are mentioned as administrative officials of the Counts of Kyburg in the town of Seen, from 1264 they held the office of Vogt and managed the administration for the Counts of Habsburg-Kyburg. Documented evidence shows that Heinrich von Seen held the court office of the Speiser ("dispensatore") in the Kyburg from at least 1260 to 1263, which he later bequeathed to his son.
Around 1271 the lords of lakes were knighted, in a document Heinrich II. Von Seen attested a donation to his new employer Rudolf von Habsburg . At that time, the Knights of Lakes had a variety of fiefdoms; a document from 1276 tells us that Heinrich II employed his own bailiff for this purpose. His name can also be found several times in court documents. From his son Heinrich III. it is known that the then Duke and later King Albrecht of Austria gave him Margaretha von Humlikon, daughter of the former noble knight Heinrich II von Humlikon, as a bride in 1289.
Through Margaretha von Humlikon, Heinrich III. 1300 in Höngg the rights of the Vogtei which previously held those of Humlikon. After Heinrich III. von Seen participated in the Battle of Morgarten for the Habsburgs in 1315 , in the same year he received the rule of Wülflingen with the Alt-Wülflingen castle and high jurisdiction from the Habsburgs as a fief .
His son Johannes von Seen , mentioned for the first time in 1328, initially also worked from Höngg, but had to sell goods several times due to financial difficulties and in 1359 finally sold the bailiwick with the second Meierhof, the church set and property of Höngg for 520 guilders to the Wettingen monastery - He was then already settled at Alt-Wülflingen Castle. However, the situation of John did not get better, the regional court in Rotweil reasons unknown to him the imperial ban , which on May 9, 1366 by Emperor Charles IV. Was canceled. How long this imperial ban lasted is not known. The interim ban does not seem to have harmed him, however, as he signed in 1369 instead of Bailiff Rudolf von Nidau as bailiff of Baden and two years later judged as bailiff of Swabia, Thurgau and Aargau. In 1973 he also appeared as Vogt von Frauenfeld at an arbitration tribunal. Johannes von Seen documented one last time on December 20, 1377, two years later he was probably no longer alive.
His eldest son Rudolf von Seen took over the rule of Elgg for a decade from 1376, but little is known about his time there. Another son Johannes, Hartmann I, received in 1376 from the Habsburg Duke Leopold III. pledged the rule of Wülflingen and also Frauenfeld . For a time it was owned by Duke Leopold III as pledge . also Landeck Castle in Tyrol. When Johannes fell in the battle of Sempach in 1386 , he was buried together with other Habsburg knights in Königsfelden . A wall painting in the Agnesenkapelle there shows him with other fallen Austrian followers. The death of his brother and the inheritance of Schwandegg Castle by his wife Elisabetha von Schwandegg can also explain the departure of Rudolf von Seen from Elgg.
Since the Habsburgs dissolved the small rule of Wülflingen no longer released, this came completely to the Knights of Lakes. In 1405 the son of Hartmann I. von Sehaim, Hans von Sehaim, fell in the Battle of the Stoss , after he had previously negotiated with the Winterthur mayor Laurenz von Sal in St. Gallen. Since after this defeat the threat to the St. Gallen monastery had become too great, Abbot Kuno fled from St. Gallen to Winterthur and stayed in the administrative building at the Untertor of Rudolf von Seen during this time. Hartmann I's son, Hartmann II, became a citizen of the city in 1407, and they had to have Alt-Wülflingen Castle open to the Winterthur council. After that, however, the gender disappears from the history books after a last secure documentary mention in 1408.
In 1424 the county of Kyburg was pawned piece by piece to the city of Zurich . The rule of Wülflingen was taken over by Ulrich VIII von Landenberg-Greifensee , Hartmann von Seen's son-in-law, and the Habsburgs left the region.
According to Conrad Grünenberg's coat of arms from 1480 and Johannes Stumpf's chronicle, the related line from Sehaim-Hertemberg in Thurgau also existed in addition to the line from Sehaim-Wülflingen.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Sehaim - Hertemberg is shown: diagonally divided by black and gold, above a six-pointed silver star, below a black, red-tongued lion. On the helmet with black and gold covers on a gold tufted red cushion, the upper half of an eight-pointed silver star, the tips of the five rays depicted with black feather balls.
The coat of arms has been proven since 1274, the lion being derived from the coat of arms of the county of Kyburg . The lion is missing from the coat of arms of the von Sehaim-Wülflingen. The coat of arms of the urban district of Lakes (Winterthur) is derived from the family coat of arms of the Sehaimer.
family tree
| Heinrich (adult 1240) |
Rüdeger (ext. 1246) |
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| Arnold (adult 1260) |
Burchard (ext. 1257–1263) |
Heinrich I (exp. 1260–1263) |
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| unknown | Heinrich II. (Ext. 1271–1277) |
Rudolf (adult 1292-1314) |
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| Ulrich III. from Hettlingen |
Margaretha (adult 1299-1327) |
Henry III. (exp. 1289–1328) |
Margaretha from Humlikon |
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| Johannes (adults 1328-1374) |
Margaretha von Goldenberg |
Anna von Baldegg |
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| Rudolf (adult 1359–1406) |
unknown | Heinrich (adult 1359) |
Egbrecht ( adults 1359-1367) |
Hartmann I. (ext. 1359-1386) |
Elisabeth of ... | Gottfried (adults 1359-1367) |
Johann Ulrich (adult 1359-1374) |
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| Verena | Hans von Münchwil |
Hans (adult 1400–1405) |
Margaretha von Landenberg |
Hartmann II. (Ext. 1391–1407) |
Klara (ext. 1407) |
Ulrich von Rosenberg |
Ulrich VIII from Landenberg-Greifensee |
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Literature and source
- Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . tape 324 . Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 73-112 .
Web links
- Lakes in Winterthur glossary.