Tegerfelden (noble family)
The von Tegerfelden family , which later appeared in a baronial and a knightly line, was one of the most important aristocratic families in Aargau from the beginning of the 12th to the end of the 14th century .
history
The noble family was first mentioned with Luitpold I von Tegerfelden in 1113. The family owned properties on both sides of the High Rhine in Aargau and in southern Baden. The main seat was Tegerfelden Castle . Probably also the castle Werrach and the castle Beuggen came into their possession in the 13th century . The lords of Tegerfelden were followers of the dukes of Zähringen and were closely associated with the barons of Rötteln , von Teufen and von Klingen .
The family died with Walter III. (Mentioned for the last time in a document in 1254) in the male line. Through the marriage of the heiress Ida with Ulrich II. Von Klingen , the property came to the Lords of Klingen as early as 1236. They founded the town of Klingnau on the lands in 1239 and Klingnau Castle as their new residence . The neighboring Tegerfelden Castle was already in ruins around 1269.
A good century later, Franz Ulrich von Tegerfelden fell in the Battle of Sempach in 1386 when he was fighting on the side of the Habsburgs . After him there are no more members of the family to be found. Several Lords of Blades also died in the battle and this family also died out shortly afterwards, in 1395.
Well-known representatives of the sex
- Ulrich von Tegerfelden († April 12 between 1200 and 1204 in St. Gallen) was Bishop of Chur and Abbot of St. Gallen from 1171.
- Konrad II. Von Tegerfelden , also: Conrad II. Von Tegerfelden, (* 12th century; † 1233) was Bishop of Constance from 1209 to 1233.
- Gertrud von Tegerfelden († after 1200), abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
Possessions
The barons of Tegerfelden had their headquarters at Tegerfelden Castle , above the village of Tegerfelden in the Aargau Surb Valley. To the possession of the heir daughter of Walther III. von Tegerfelden, Ita von Klingen, should also have heard of Werrach Castle . A donation made by her to the German Order Coming Beuggen in 1247 suggests that Beuggen Castle can also be counted as part of the property of the Barons of Tegerfelden. They also owned Rheinsberg Castle as a deposit .
Also near Rheinfelden , at the foot of the Nettenberg, where the Waidbach and the Siebensteinbach flow together, the barons of Tegerfelden had a castle - first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century as Tegervelt - (today Rheinfelden- Degerfelden ), which presumably was destroyed in a dispute between them and Rudolf von Habsburg , the future king. Then there was the Strenger Felsen castle , which was located further east on a hill. It has not been clarified whether the Rheinfelden family of knights ( milites ) von Tegerfelden, also known as the “Bälber von Tegerfelden”, residing at these two castles , were a sideline of the barons of Tegerfelden or whether they were ministerials who supported the Had adopted names of their masters. As early as 1239 they entered into a kind of vassal relationship with the Lords of Tiefenstein .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver eagle within a blue shield border in two rows of silver and red . On the helmet with red and silver covers the silver eagle between a red and a silver buffalo horn (or two blue buffalo horns).
The depiction of the family coat of arms in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1701 shows instead of a slaughtered shield border a red-and-silver slaughtered shield, covered with a blue central shield with the silver eagle inside. The right buffalo horn is red there, the left blue.
The shield is now used as a coat of arms by the municipality of Tegerfelden , but with a simple red and silver border. The coat of arms of the former Baden community of Degerfelden (today part of Rheinfelden (Baden) ) shows the heart shield of the coat of arms of the barons of Tegerfelden.
literature
- Theodor von Liebenau : Contributions to the history of the family von Tegerfelden. In: Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" in Vienna. Vol. 10 = 13, 1883, pp. 1–7 Digitized in the Internet archive
- Theodor von Liebenau (editor): Regesta on the history of the Lords of Tegerfelden. In: Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" in Vienna. Vol. 10, 1883, pp. 7-10 Digital copy in the Internet archive
- Walther Merz : Free from Tegerfelden. In: Genealogisches Handbuch zur Schweizer Geschichte Volume I, pp. 401–402 Digitized in the Internet Archive
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Heidelberg 1894, Volume 1, p. 205 online
- Erik Beck: Degerfelden (Rheinfelden, LÖ) - history. In: Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz : The castles in medieval Breisgau, II. Southern part: half volume AK . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 136–140 with a family tree on p. 139
Web links
- Coat of arms of the Tegerfeld in Volume 2, Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, Plate 31-2
- Franziska Hälg-Steffen: Tegerfelden, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Information board of the canton archeology of Aargau: Tegerfelden castle ruins
Individual evidence
- ↑ s. Beck p. 138
- ↑ Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum, p. 85
- ↑ JA Pupikofer: History of the barons of Alten-Klingen, Klingnau and Hohenklingen in Thurgau's contributions to patriotic history, Vol. 10
- ↑ Habsburger Urbar from 1281 in Der Geschichtsfreund, Historischer Verein der 5 Orte Lucern, Uti, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug, Volume 5, 1848, p. 18
- ^ Fencing: District Waldshut, 1859, s. 309
- ↑ Dr. Theodor von Liebenau: Contributions to the history of the family von Tegerfelden
- ↑ Tegerfeld coat of arms in Volume 2, Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, Plate 31-2
- ↑ s. Harald Huber: Wappenbuch Landkreis Lörrach , Konstanz 1984, p. 85