Seifried von Mahrenberg

Seifried von Mahrenberg (* in Radlje ob Dravi ; † 1271/72) was a Carinthian-Styrian nobleman of the 13th century and ministerial of the Dukes of Styria and those of Carinthia .

Name variations

Siegfried, Seyfried, Seyfridus, Seifrid, Sifridus, Sivridus, de Mernberg, Merenberg, Merenwerch, Merenberch, Merinberch, Maerenberch, Merremberh, Marnberg

Live and act

His father was Albert von Mahrenberg († before 1251), his mother's name was Geisla. Mahrenberg is now called Radlje ob Dravi and is located south of the Radlpass in the Slovenian Drautal .

In a document dated 9 June 1251 declared Seifried that he illegally by his ancestors a long time St. Pauler Klostergrund violent built castles Truchsen ( Niedertrixen ) in Carinthia and Mahrenberg in Styria with appurtenances and the bailiwicks possessed by mountains Remschnigg and Wolfbach , but had now put them back to Abbot Leutold, who graciously bestowed them on him and his wife Richgard. After their presumably childless departure, they will revert to St. Paul.

Mahrenberg Monastery

In the same month he and his mother founded the Dominican convent in Mahrenberg. On June 24, 1251, Geisla, widow of Herr Albert von Mahrenberg, and her son Seifried declared that they had founded a monastery for nuns from the Dominican Order on their estate, Perweineshube below Mahrenberg Castle , to which their co-heirs, who were named, gave their consent give. The endowments are listed individually.

In another document on the same date, Seifried stated that he had given the goods donated to his new foundation without any reservation for himself or his heirs (jurisdiction or bailiwick).

Hungarian rule

In 1258, at the time of the Hungarian rule in Styria, Seifried was harassed at his castle by the Hungarian-Croatian governor Stephan after an uprising against him had broken out. But Hartnid von Pettau and the other lords of the Drautal drove him out of the country. Prince Stephan, however, who succeeded him as governor, restored calm with the mediation of Bishop Ulrich von Seckau .

Bohemian rule

On December 24, 1260 Seifried took part as one of the judges in the court of Graz under King Ottokar of Böhmen , the new Styrian ruler, in which the dispute between Abbot Gerhard von St. Paul and Count Bernhard and Heinrich von Pfannberg was about allegedly presumptuous bailiwick went. The question was decided in favor of the pen. Other judges included Duke Ulrich von Carinthia , Bishop Dietrich von Gurk , Count Ulrich von Heunburg , Dietmar von Weißeneck , Friedrich von Wolfsberg , Cholo von Saldenhofen and Gottfried von Marburg .

On August 1, 1261, Seifried was a witness at a court hearing under Wok von Rosenberg , the Bohemian governor of Styria, over a conflict between Rein Abbey and the Pfannbergers regarding the property of the former Helfenstein Castle near Rein .

Seifried, who was very fond of Duchess Gertrud von Babenberg as her ministerial , who was taken care of by King Ottokar , received permission from her on January 5, 1263 in Voitsberg to dispose of all his property and fiefs belonging to the Duchy of Styria as she pleased.

On May 21, 1263, he witnessed a settlement by Duke Ulrich of Carinthia regarding a complaint by Abbot Gerhard von St. Paul against the ducal officials and on April 27, 1264 addressee of an honor: Duke Ulrich declared that he was to reward the loyal service des Seifried von Mahrenberg had given him the right of patronage to which he was entitled to the chapels in Glanhofen and Rinkenberg, who wanted to give it to his new foundation "Cella Christi" in Canale . And on August 28 of this year, Seifried and his wife Richkardis signed a contract with Bishop Berthold von Bamberg in Villach regarding the establishment of a Cistercian monastery in the Canal Valley at Tarvisio and promised to keep the Hardeck castles at 35, Mahrenberg at 51 and (Nieder-) Trixen as well Dedicate 40 brands of annual annuities.

In 1266 Seifried and Richkardis von Herbord von Traberg ( Dravograd ) and his wife Gertrud got cheap Gülten zu Reifnik for their Mahrenberg monastery.

On July 13, 1271, Seifried and his wife presented their Mahrenberg monastery with a hat in the village and also to a village called Usek .

Conspiracy?

In the same year, 1271, Seifried's fate took its course: King Ottokar, who was traveling from Friesach to Marburg , allegedly felt hurt in his pride and was very angry because Seifried had not come down from his castle to pay him his respect and to give the escort; According to the rhyming chronicler , Seifried had been prevented by his gout. Be that as it may, Ottokar had Seifried captured by his Carinthian governor Ulrich von Dürnholz and transferred to Prague . There he was tortured and executed at the latest in early 1272 for alleged conspiracies. At the same time, his loyal service to Duchess Gertrud had been reproached for.

In the last days of February of 1272 Reickart, widow of Herr Seifried von Mahrenberg, with the advice and will of the friends of her blessed husband, Offos von Emmerberg and Heinrich von Chlam, gave the Mahrenberg monastery two lifts near Traberg , on the other side of the Drau , to the Mahrenberg monastery for her husband's soul device located on the Burgstall.

In 1277 King Rudolf Seifried took the Mahrenberg monastery under his personal protection.

In 1278, after a lost battle on the Marchfeld , King Ottokar was killed by Berthold von Emmerberg, a cousin of Seifried, although he pleaded for the protection of his life.

relationship

Seifried was married to Richgard (Richkardis, Reickart); the couple remained childless; he had two sisters, Anna von Stadeck and NNw von Chlam, nephews Hermann von Chlam, nieces Anna, Mathilde von Greifenfels and Kunigunde von Emmerberg and brothers-in-law Rudolf and Liutold von Stadeck.

additional

In King Ottokar's Glück und Ende , Franz Grillparzer also traced the fate of Seifried von Mahrenberg in poetic freedom.

literature

• Joseph Chmel : Documents on the history of Austria ... 1246-1300 in Fontes rerum austriacarum , second section, first volume, Vienna 1849
• Karlmann Tangl : The Counts of Heunburg in archive for customer of Austrian historical sources , published by the commission of the imperial academy of the sciences established for the care of patriotic history. Volume 25, Vienna. From the imperial and royal court and state printing works. 1860.
• Karlmann Tangl: The Counts of Pfannberg in archive for customer Austrian historical sources , volume 18, Vienna 1857

Web links

• Entry on Seifried von Mahrenberg in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )