Sophia von Raabs

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Sophia von Raabs (* in the 12th century; † around 1218) was a medieval noblewoman who was married to the Burgrave Friedrich I of Nuremberg and came from the family of the Counts of Raabs . She was the heir to the Nuremberg burgrave Konrad II of Raabs , with whose death the male line of the Frankish branch of the Counts of Raabs became extinct. Together with her husband, Sophia von Raabs founded the Franconian Zollern line .

biography

Sophia was the only child who came from the marriage of Konrad II with his wife Hildegard von Abenberg around 1170 . Hildegard was the daughter of Friedrich II. Von Abenberg , who had belonged to the noble family of the Franconian Counts of Abenberg . When Friedrich II died around 1200 without male descendants, the Abenberg dynasty became extinct and Hildegard entered into the line of succession, so that the Abenberg territories mainly around Cadolzburg passed into the possession of her husband. His great-grandfather Gottfried II von Raabswas named as the first burgrave of Nuremberg in 1113. When Sophia's father died around 1190 without male descendants, she inherited the Frankish branch of the Raabs. The burgrave office did not belong to this inheritance, however, because it fell back to the head of the Holy Roman Empire as a man's fief . So Sophia was neither the “Hereditary Countess” nor the “Heiress of the Burgraviate”. However, since her husband had always proven to be just as loyal to the Empire as his father-in-law had done, he was reappointed the title of burgrave.

Together with her husband, Sophia founded the Franconian Zollern line, from which the Electoral Brandenburg House of Hohenzollern emerged as a daughter line in the 15th century . With the self-coronation of Friedrich III. From Brandenburg , this line gained royal dignity in 1701 and, with Wilhelm I, the German imperial crown, until the centuries-long rule of the Hohenzollern came to an inglorious end with the abdication of Wilhelm II, who was incompetent in every respect . Sophia died around 1218.

progeny

Two sons were born from his marriage to Friedrich I.

  • Konrad I († around 1260/1261), 1218 burgrave of Nuremberg (Franconian line)
  • Friedrich IV. († around 1255), 1200–1218 Burgrave of Nuremberg (Swabian line)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . S. 278 ( google.de [accessed on January 16, 2020]).
  2. ^ Nuremberg - History of a European City . S. 20 .
  3. ^ Klaus Rupprecht: Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . Ed .: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres. 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 850 . ( Online ).
  4. ^ History of the Prussian royal house - The Counts of Zollern and Burgraves of Nuremberg . S. 82 .
  5. ^ History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . Family tree - Table I. ( google.de [accessed on January 16, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Raabs, Sophia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Heir daughter of the Counts of Raabs and wife of Burgrave Friedrich I of Nuremberg-Zollern
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1218