Truchsessen from Diessenhofen
The Truchsessen von Diessenhofen were a knight family from the 13th to 15th centuries from Diessenhofen in Thurgau in today's Switzerland and a branch of the Lords of Hettlingen . The main seat was the Unterhof in Diessenhofen with the associated Vogtei Diessenhofen. Her grave is the church there.
The first representative Heinrich Truchsess von Diessenhofen (recorded 1241–1290), son of Heinrich von Hettlingen, sat from 1247 as Truchsess of the Counts of Kyburg in Diessenhofen. His connections to the Salem monastery and other evidence point to a marriage to the Hegau nobility. After the Kyburgs died out in 1264, the Habsburgs took the family into their service as their heirs. This developed into one of the main pillars of Habsburg politics in the region in the first third of the 14th century. Heinrich's son Johannes (occupied from 1289/94, 1342), husband of Elisabeth von Reinach (1303) and Katharinas, probably von Bonstetten , as well as Heinrich's father, moved in the immediate vicinity of the Dukes of Austria , became court master of King Frederick the Fair and in 1318 In this position he headed various diplomatic missions.
The family was also economically successful during this period. As an Austrian fiefdom, it received goods in southern Germany, in Gailingen and Neuhausen am Rheinfall , the Vogtei in Trüllikon , and in 1330 the town and fortresses of Aach and Herblingen Castle as important pledges . John's inheritance was shared by his sons Ulrich and Johannes in 1342. Under economic pressure, the grandsons of the latter, Hans Molli (1397–1434) and Hans Bitterli (1392–1439), began liquidating the property around 1420. Around 1460, Hans Bitterli's son Hans Heinrich pledged the Unterhof and the Diessenhofen Vogtei. The family was last recorded in 1495.
literature
- Martin Leonhard: Truchsessen von Diessenhofen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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