Strassberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau, also carried from the Strassberg sideline, Zurich coat of arms roll , approx. 1340

The Strassberg were an aristocratic family based in Strassberg Castle near Büren an der Aare . From this family, which belonged to the baron class, only one person is known towards the end of the 12th century. After their extinction, a branch of the family from the Neuchâtel-Nidau family named themselves Counts of Strassberg as legal successors . The Counts of Strassberg had no relation to the ministerial family of the same name, the Strassberg, based in Malix south of Chur .

history

In 1181 or 1182 Ulrich von Strassberg ( Wodalrico von Strahberch ) is mentioned in the suite of Duke Berthold IV von Zähringen . In an unknown manner, but presumably through family connections, Strassberg Castle came to Count Ulrich III in 1225, shortly before his death. from Neuchâtel . Before that, when the house of Neuchâtel was divided in 1218, he had received the eastern, German-speaking part of the dominion as well as the title of Count of Neuchâtel and moved his seat to Nidau ​​Castle . One of his younger sons, Berthold I (mentioned from 1226; died 1270), initially received the rule of Valangin , which he exchanged with his brother Ulrich IV of Aarberg-Valangin for the castle and rule of Strassberg before 1251. Berthold I became the founder of the line of the Counts of Strassberg.

Two children are known of Berthold I, Herr von Strassberg, and his wife Johanna: his son Berthold II. (Died before 1285) called himself Count von Strassberg. The daughter Adelheid was married to Count Heinrich von Buchegg (before 1250; died August 14, 1320), Landgrave of Burgundy . Count Berthold II von Strassberg had Adelheid von Ochsenstein (died May 17, 1314) as his wife. They had two sons and a daughter. While Berthold II married his daughter Gertrud (died March 27, 1327) to his cousin Rudolf II von Neuenburg-Nidau ​​(mentioned from 1255; died 1308 or 1309), his older son Otto succeeded him as Count von Strassberg , and the younger son Ludwig embarked on a spiritual career. Via Otto's wife Margarete von Freiburg, in 1303 the southern part came from the possession of the Counts of Freiburg with the rule of Badenweiler to the house of Strassberg.

Because Otto's son, Count Imer von Strassberg , mentioned for the first time in 1317, died childless in 1364, the Strassberg branch of the House of Neuchâtel-Nidau ​​became extinct.

Coat of arms of the Graubünden lords of "Strasberg" in the Zurich coat of arms , approx. 1340

The Counts of Strassberg from the family of the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau ​​are not to be confused with the Lords of Strassberg, who had their seat at Castle Strassberg in Malix in Graubünden . Otto de Strazperc is named as the first representative of this family in 1253 . This family of ministers belonged to the retinue of the barons of Vaz . Your coat of arms appears in the Zurich coat of arms scroll with a sinking black chamois pole in a silver shield.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red, a black pole topped with three silver rafters. A pointed hat in the colors of the coat of arms with a green plume as a crest on the helmet. The helmet covers are red on the outside and black on the inside.

The coat of arms of the Strassberg is one of the numerous variations of the coat of arms of the Counts of Neuchâtel and their family branches, all of which have the spared stake in red and differ in the tinctures and the upper coat of arms. For the branch of Neuchâtel-Nidau ​​and thus also for the Strassberg, gold rafters are documented instead of silver, as they appear in the following municipal coats of arms.

Two municipalities in the Bernese Seeland and the municipality of Valangin use elements of the coat of arms of the Counts of Neuenburg-Nidau ​​/ Strassberg.

In their capacity as Lords of Badenweiler, the Counts of Strassberg also left elements of their coat of arms in the various local coats of arms in numerous localities in Breisgau.

Tribe list

  1. Ulrich von Strassberg (ext. 1181/1182), baron

After the barons of Strassberg died out around 1200, one of Ulrich III's younger sons took over. von Neuenburg-Nidau ​​(adult from 1182; died between August 1, 1225 and 1226), Count von Neuenburg, Herr zu Nidau, and his second wife Jolante von Urach named Strassberg.

  1. Berthold I. (adult from 1226; died before March 14, 1273), Mr. zu Strassberg ⚭ Johanna
    1. Berthold II. (Died before 1285), Count von Strassberg ⚭ Adelheid von Ochsenstein (died May 17, 1314)
      1. Otto (exp. 1299; died November 1315), Count von Strassberg, Landgrave of Aarburgund ⚭ before 1300 Countess Margarete von Freiburg, heiress of the Badenweiler rule
        1. Imer (ext. 1317; died 1364), Count von Strassberg ⚭ Freiin Margaretha von Wolhusen (ext. 1334; died 1369)
          1. Elisabeth (died 1352) ⚭ Margrave Otto I von Hachberg-Sausenberg
      2. Berthold III.
      3. Ludwig (exp. 1288; died December 2, 1343), clergyman
      4. Gertrud (died March 27, 1327) ⚭ 1) Rudolf II of Neuchâtel-Nidau ​​(ext. 1255; died 1308 or 1309), Count of Neuchâtel, Lord of Nidau; ⚭ 2) Margrave Rudolf III. of Baden (died 1332)
      5. Adelheid ⚭ before 1321 Walter von Horburg (exp. 1321; d. 1328/1329)
    2. Rudolf (adult 1269)
    3. Otto I. (ext. 1270)
    4. Adelheid ⚭ before 1273 Heinrich von Buchegg (adult from 1250; died 14 August 1320), Count von Buchegg, from 1276 Landgrave of Burgundy
    5. Heinrich (adult 1292)

literature

  • Paul Aeschbacher: The Counts of Nidau ​​and their heirs , 1924

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Strassberg castle site above Büren an der Aare (Canton of Bern) at www.dillum.ch
  2. ^ Franziska Hälg-Steffen: Strassberg, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ^ Ambros Kocher: Solothurner Urkundenbuch , first volume 762–1245, State Chancellery of the Canton of Solothurn, Solothurn, 1952. Family table 3.
  4. ↑ Peter Niederhäuser: Nidau, Rudolf II. Von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  5. ^ Family coat of arms Strassberg (von, Count) .