Walramids
Walramiden ( Latin : Walramidarum gens) is a name introduced by Georg Christian Crollius for the younger line of Counts of Zweibrücken with Count Walram I of Zweibrücken and his descendants (1282-1394), whose center of rule was Zweibrücken Castle . Crollius introduced the term for the conceptual differentiation of the Zweibrücken and Bitscher counts , who after 1282 both carried the title “Count of Zweibrücken” and are therefore easy to confuse.
The Bitsch counts, Count Eberhard I. von Zweibrücken and his descendants (1282–1570), he called Eberhardiner (Latin: Eberhardigenarii). Today one speaks instead of the younger line of the Counts of Zweibrücken and the line of the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch.
history
The offices of Zweibrücken and Bergzabern came to Walram I when the county of Zweibrücken was divided between 1286 and 1302 and remained with his descendants, who are known as Walramids after the founder of the line. The last count from the Walram line, Eberhard II , who had no descendants entitled to inheritance, sold it in 1385 for 25,000 guilders to the Count Palatine near Rhine from the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach family and received half of it back as a fief. After his death in 1394, the Electoral Palatinate moved into the settled fiefdom.
- Seal: A lion, covered with a three-lipped tournament collar . The tournament collar serves as a heraldic emblem for the younger line.
- Coat of arms: In gold, a blue armored and tongued red lion, topped with a blue three-lipped tournament collar.
Walramids
- 1282–1309 Walram I.
- 1309-1311 Simon
- 1311-1366 Walram II.
- 1366–1394 Eberhard II.
literature
- Georg Christian Crollius: Genealogia veterum comitum Geminipontis. Zweibrücken 1755, Tab. I: Family table of the Counts of Saarbrücken, Table II: Family table of the Counts of Zweibrücken (before p. 1)
- Georg Christian Crollius: Origines Bipontinae. Part I, Zweibrücken 1761, Part II, Zweibrücken 1769, family tree of the Walramids p. 295
- Carl Pöhlmann: Regesta of the Counts of Zweibrücken from the Zweibrücken line , edited by Anton Doll, Speyer 1962, family table of the Counts of Zweibrücken S. XLI.