Verena (Waldburg House)

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Truchsessin Verena von Waldburg (* around 1400 , † 1443 ) was a member of the lower Swabian nobility who was raised to the rank of imperial count . She was a younger daughter of the head chef Johannes II von Waldburg († 1424) and belonged to a family that successfully managed to maintain and expand her position in the 15th century.

family

The Waldburg Truchsesse has been documented since the middle of the 12th century. Originally a ministerial , in the late Middle Ages they managed to rise to the lower Swabian nobility and, through clever economic and marriage policies, later also to rise to the high nobility.

Verena probably came from her father's fourth marriage to Ursula von Abensberg († 1422). She was a (half?) Sister of the Truchsess Jakob I von Trauchburg (called the Golden Knight ), Eberhard I zu Scheer and Friedberg (the later Count of Sonnenberg (1424–1479)) and of Georg von Waldburg-Zeil . One of her (half?) Sisters was Ursula von Starkenberg , who married into one of the most powerful noble families in the County of Tyrol. Through the marriages of her brothers and other sisters, she was related by marriage to some other important Swabian aristocratic families (Counts of Werdenberg and Montfort , lords of Gundelfingen and Klingenberg ).

Verena was married twice. From her first marriage with Johannes Freiherr von Zimmer , a son of Johannes von Zimmer the Elder (1354–1441) and Kunigunde von Werdenberg-Sargans († 1434), she had at least six children:

  • Konrad (dies young)
  • Werner the Younger (* around 1423; † 1483) ∞ Anna von Kirchberg († 1478)
  • Gottfried (* 1425; † 1508)
  • Kunigunde († young)
  • Verena, ∞ Ulrich von Brandis
  • Anna († 1492) ∞ I) Johannes von Geroldseck ; ∞ II) Jakob von Bern

After his death she married Count Hans von Rechberg , with whom she had two other children:

  • Heinrich (* after 1433 and before 1443; † 1503) ∞ Anna Freiin von Schwarzenberg
  • Barbara (* after 1433 and before 1443; † 1493) ∞ Jakob von Falkenstein

Life

In 1417 or 1418 Verena married the baron Johannes von Zimmer ( Johannes the Younger ) (around 1396 - 1430). In 1418, probably on the occasion of this marriage, she, like her sister Agnes (as the wife of Johannes von Haideck), was made Countess by King Sigmund . Her first husband died in the Hussite War in 1430 .

In 1433 Verena acquired a third of the Hilzingen rulership, including Staufen Castle in Hegau, from her brother Jakob, as well as other possessions that were to play a role in the life of her second husband. When she married Count Hans von Rechberg (* around 1410 - 1464) around 1433, a member of the lower Swabian nobility who was involved as a "feud entrepreneur" in numerous feuds, wars and raids in the imperial landscape of Swabia , she had to be due to him her possessions and her fortunes would have been an excellent match. From 1437 Hans von Rechberg ruled the county of Gammertingen-Hettingen , which he sold to the Counts of Württemberg in 1447 (after Verena's death) . Later he founded the Schramberg rule .

After her death in 1443, Verena was buried in his family's grave in Isny . For her husband, who by now had amassed enormous debts, her death must have been very unfavorable, as he was forced to leave part of her property to her children from the first marriage and also to undertake to pay another part at a later date .

literature

  • Casimir Bumiller: The Lords of Rechberg and the formation of the Schramberg rule . In: Schramberg. Dominion - Markflecken - industrial city. Edited by Museum and History Association Schramberg ud Great District Town Schramberg, Schramberg 2004, pp. 83–94 online, RTF
  • Erhard Waldemar Kanter: Hans von Rechberg von Hohenrechberg . Zurich 1903 (basic) Internet Archive
  • Joseph Vochezer: History of the Princely House of Waldburg in Swabia , 1888, Vol. 1, pp. 379–496

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Casimir Bumiller: The Lords of Rechberg and the formation of the rule Schramberg , 2004, p. 87
  2. ↑ a b c d Casimir Bumiller: The Lords of Rechberg and the formation of the rule Schramberg , 2004, p. 86
  3. ↑ Erhard Waldemar Kanter: Hans von Rechberg von Hohenrechberg . Zurich 1903 (basic) Internet Archive , p. 108
  4. ↑ Erhard Waldemar Kanter: Hans von Rechberg von Hohenrechberg . Zurich 1903 (basic) Internet Archive , p. 108
  5. ↑ Casimir Bumiller: The Lords of Rechberg and the Formation of the Herrschaft Schramberg , 2004, p. 86. Whether she actually received the name of a Countess von Sonnenberg, as Bumiller thinks, does not seem entirely certain. The rule Sonnenberg was only around 1463 under Emperor Friedrich III. raised to the county.
personal data
SURNAME Verena (Waldburg House)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verena von Waldburg; Verena von Zimmer; Verena von Rechberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Hans von Rechberg, daughter of Johannes II von Waldburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH 1443