Nellenburgs

Nellenburgs - with a high degree of probability, the descendants of the Eberhardings , counts of Zurichgau and Thurgau , the Vogts of the Einsiedeln monastery . At the beginning of the XI century, they moved the center of their possessions to the Upper Rhine and to Hegau , having founded in 1049 the abbey of All Saints in Schaffhausen and at about the same time the castle of Nellenburg , whose name (at the latest in 1096) passed to the whole clan.

With the death of Burkhard III in 1105, who lost his family castle during the struggle for investorism , the Nellenburg senior line was interrupted and the inheritance was divided between his nephew Count Dietrich von Bürglen (who founded the second Nellenburg house and Count Adalbert von Moersberg ( German: Adalbert von Mörsberg ), married to Matilda von Nellenburg (through whose daughter the Nellenburgs were associated with the Schponheim clan).

In 1170, the von Bürglen line was also suppressed, as a result of which Nellenburg - through marriage, passed to Count Mangold von Veringen ( German Mangold von Veringen ), who adopted, among other things, the family coat of arms of Nellenburg (with the color of deer horns changing from blue to red). His son of the same name founded the third Nellenburg house in 1216. Around the same time, in the first half of the 13th century, the Nellenburg Landgrafism was founded, combining the ownership of Nellenburg with the old county of Hegau.

In 1422, the non-Leningburg line of the Feringen house died out, after which the land grafts inherited the noble family von Tengen, who sold it to the Habsburgs in 1465, as a result of which the Nellenburg landsgrafism became part of Forward Austria .

• Eberhard VI von Nellenburg the Blessed (c. 1015 - c. 1080) - builder of the castle of Nellenburg. Therefore, it is often referred to as Eberhard I von Nellenburg. A relative of Pope Leo IX . Founder of the All Saints Monastery in Schaffhausen.
• Udo von Nellenburg (c. 1030-1078) - Archbishop of Trier in 1067-1077.
• Ekkehard II von Nellenburg (c. 1035-1088) - abbot of the monastery of Reichenau in 1071-1088.
• Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen († 1539), repeatedly mentioned in the Chronicle of Counts von Zimmern .

Interestingly, when in 1195 Count Hartmann von Württemberg married Agatha, the daughter of the youngest son of Mangold von Ferigen, it not only brought Württemberg possession on the Danube, and the foundation of the side line of the Württemberg house, Grüningen-Landau ( German: Grüningen-Landau ), but also used today is the coat of arms with three deer horns.

The counts Grüningen-Landau, apparently wanting to emphasize their continuity with the Landgrafs influential in Swabia, on the one hand, and their fundamental claims on Nellenburg, on the other, instead of the family coat of arms of the counts Württemberg with three towers, adopted the Feringen coat of arms (red deer antlers on a gold background ), which, in turn, was a variant of the coat of arms of Counts von Nellenburg (blue horns on a gold background).

Since 1240, the grand coat of arms of Hartmann I, Count Ulrich, the Founder , the founder of the main line of the Württemberg house, also accepted the new coat of arms with three black deer horns on a gold background.

• Nellenburg Castle
• Landgrafism Nellenburg

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• Kurt Hils: Die Grafen von Nellenburg im 11. Jahrhundert. Ihre Stellung zum Adel, zum Reich und zur Kirche. Freiburg im Breisgau 1966.
• Gerhard Köbler: Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. 7. Auflage. Beck, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .