Sigibot

Count Sigibot von Ruck as a donor figure in the choir stalls of the Blaubeuren monastery

Coat of arms of the Counts of Tübingen (left) and Ruck (right)

Sigibot was Count of Tübingen in Ruck around 1078 and co-founder of the Blaubeuren monastery .

He was a brother of Count Anselm von Nagoldgau and Count Hugo I. von Tübingen . Sigibot, who had his seat at Ruck Castle , played a major role in founding the Blaubeuren monastery. It was timely at the time for a noble, powerful family to have a family monastery near their castle seat, whose solemn bells gave testimony to the pious exercises of the monks, and where people once wanted to rest in consecrated earth.

Count Sigibot made it possible to move the monastery from Egelsee to Blaubeuren by donating not only what was initially necessary for it, but also the surrounding land, in addition to the St. John's Church, which has been there for a long time and is very rich in relics. In addition, he and his wife Adelheid, who came from an Alsatian dynasty, probably from Egisheim, gave the village of Süßen (Seißen bei Blaubeuren) as a gift. Sigibot most likely died soon after, as his name will soon disappear from the foundation's history. On the other hand, even after his death, his wife eagerly took on the work he had begun. She gave the monastery a mill and a farm in Süßen, another near Kölblingsbuch and a nearby forest.

Sigibot and Adelheid left behind three sons: Siegfried, Werner and Walther.

Web links

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Remarks

^ Ludwig Schmid: History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen. Tübingen 1853, pages 33–35 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Sigibot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sigiboto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Tübingen and co-founder of the Blaubeuren monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1078
DATE OF DEATH	after 1078

[1] Ludwig Schmid: History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen. Tübingen 1853, pages 33–35 ( digitized version ).