Staufen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Staufen

The Lords of Staufen were a southern German aristocratic family who lived in the Breisgau and were wealthy and who originally worked as the Zähringer ministerials . The sex has been documented since 1120 and died out in the male line in 1602.

The sex is not related to the noble family of the Staufer (Hohenstaufen).

history

The first Herr von Staufen, Adalbert, was born at the beginning of the 12th century, at the time of the Zähringer Duke, Berthold III. mentioned. He was the brother of the Zähring ministerial Kuno von Blankenberg. The name probably refers to their ancestral seat, Staufen Castle , right from the start .

At the time of the Zähringer Duke, Berthold IV (around 1160), a Gottfried von Staufen held the office of marshal and since 1218 you have been occupied as bailiffs of the St. Trudpert Monastery , which also became the burial place of the family. The Bailiwick of St. Trudpert and its city of Münster gave the Lords of Staufen access to the silver mines in the upper Münstertal . They exercised control of the area from their Scharfenstein Castle .

In the first half of the 13th century the von Staufen seem to have risen to the rank of noble free . Under Emperor Friedrich III. (1452–1493) the noble free von Staufen were then raised to the status of imperial baron. Nonetheless, under pressure from the powerful Habsburgs, they became members of the Upper Austrian and Breisgau estates . In 1346 Johann von Staufen received Werrach Castle near Wehr from the Habsburgs as a fief. This was part of the compensation for the sale of the city of Münster and Scharfenstein Castle .

With Georg Leo von Staufen, the male line of the house died out in 1602.

St. Trudpert: Trudpert chapel and new monastery church

In the literature it is assumed that Marshal Gottfried von Staufen already had the bailiwick of the monastery around 1175, but the Lords of Staufen have only been recorded as bailiffs since 1218. Since 1277, the Staufener had the bailiwick of the monastery St. Trudpert as a fief of the Habsburgs . Until 1325, the Lords of Staufen owned the umbrella bailiwick of the St. Trudpert Monastery as an inheritance , after which the umbrella bailiwick was handed over personally by way of a feudal contract. The following bailiffs of St. Trudpert from the von Staufen family are known:

  • Johannes von Staufen - 1325
  • Gottfried von Staufen - 1333
  • Gottfried (Götz) von Staufen - 1370
  • Burkhard von Staufen - 1410
  • Bertold von Staufen - 1413
  • Jakob von Staufen - 1451
  • Martin von Staufen - 1484
  • Trudpert of Staufen - 1487
  • Leo von Staufen - 1520
  • Hans Ludwig von Staufen - 1537
  • Anton von Staufen - 1554
  • Georg Leo von Staufen - 1577

The row of bailiffs from the Staufen house is occasionally interrupted by a bailiff of another origin, but the Staufen house is absolutely dominant.

Well-known namesake

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three gold staufers on a red shield , covered with a paten . The city of Staufen has taken it over and added five stars. Some of the places where the Lords of Staufen once exercised local rule show the Stauf in their coat of arms. It can currently be found in those of Ballrechte-Dottingen and Pfaffenweiler , as was the case in the former coats of arms of Wettelbrunn , Norsingen and Scherzingen .

literature

Web links

Commons : Coat of arms of the Staufen family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ However, the family relationship between Adalbert and the subsequent Messrs. Von Staufen has not been proven
  2. ↑ abandoned urban settlement below St. Trudpert
  3. ↑ Joseph Bader : Dingrotel S. Trudbert im Breisgau. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 21, 1868, pp. 432–465, here: p. 438
  4. ↑ Boris Bigott: The Lords of Staufen - their castle and their city. In: Das Markgräflerland , Volume 2/2003, pp. 92–111, here: p. 95.
  5. ^ Friedrich von Weech : Document book of the Benedictine monastery of St. Trudpert. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 30, 1878, pp. 118-119 online in the Internet Archive
  6. ^ Willibald Strohmeyer: The founders and governors of the St. Trudpert monastery. The medieval forgery of documents. In: Freiburger Diözesan Archiv 54, 1926, pp. 106–152, here: p. 119: Strohmeyer gives the date of the feudal contracts - the entire term of office does not need to be documented
  7. ↑ Hans Ulrich Fisch's book of arms . Aarau 1622, Růdolph the other name , p. 31 ( Aargau State Archives, V / 4-1985 / 0001: 31r ).
  8. ↑ Willibald Strohmeyer: The Abbots of the St. Trudpert Monastery , in: Freiburger Diözesan Archiv Volume 61 (1933), pp. 72–74