Sterker

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The Sterker , also Sterker von Wohlsbach, were a noble family in northern Franconia in the early High Middle Ages. They were burgraves of Meißen and were wealthy in the Coburg region .

Coat of arms of the Burgraves of Meissen

history

In the 12th century, the Sterker family was richly endowed with allodes in the imperial country around Coburg . Their possessions included the Lauterburg near Oberwohlsbach , the Schaumburg Castle near Schalkau and Fechheim near today's Neustadt near Coburg . In addition, the Sterker held the bailiwick of the Bambergische Cent Gestungshausen and the Aura monastery . In a document from 1122, Bishop Otto von Bamberg Graf Sterker transferred the bailiwick of Gestungshausen acquired from Gerwig and Konrad von Wildberg . On behalf of the kingdom of the Sterker practiced the Burgrave's about Meissen from. They are the direct ancestors of the Meinheringer family .

Hermann Sterker (or Starckeri), Burgrave of Meißen , founded the Benedictine monastery in Mönchröden , today Rödental , in 1149 and endowed it with a number of villages and estates in the vicinity. In the deed of donation, the hamlets of Plesten , Mürschnitz , Brüx , Weimersdorf , Bertelsdorf , Weidach , Wasungen, Walbur, Esbach and others are listed, all of which belonged to the Sterker family. A nephew of Burgrave Sterker is mentioned at the same time as Hermann Graf von Wolveswach, whose ancestral castle is believed to be in the place of the same name, today Oberwohlsbach. The Wolfsturm, which has disappeared from the townscape today, may have been a last remnant of this family castle.

The Lauterburg was a fiefdom of the Counts of Henneberg . The Wolveswach branch of the Sterker seems to have died out with Count Hermann after 1177. The extensive allodial possession of the Sterker fell to the Bishopric of Würzburg , from which it came to the Duchy of Merania and was finally awarded to Count Hermann I von Henneberg in 1260 .

Tribe list

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  • Sterker I., Graf (also Starkhare , Sterchere , Starchri , Storkerus ) attests to 1054-1072
    • Hermann de Rotina , attests 1108
      • Sterker II., Graf (also Sterkaar , Starker ), attests from 1120 - 1144
        • Hermann, Count de Wolfeswac , de Scowenberg , attests from 1149 - 1182
      • Hermann, Burgrave of Meißen , attests from 1143 - 1171, ∞ Richlindis

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document from 1122 (translation)
  2. ↑ Helmut Demattio: Die Sterkere - Counts of Wohlsbach. In Ferdinand Kramer & Wilhelm Störmer (eds.), High Medieval Noble Families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History, Volume XX), pp. 241–269. Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005. ISBN 376966874X .

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