Territorial Development & Dynastic History.
1095: Katzenelnbogen Castle built
1138: HRE Count of Katzenelnbogen
Vogt of Abbey of Prum
Vogt of Abbey of Siegburg
Vogt of Archbishopric of Mainz (area south of Lahn)
1160: Lost territory in Kraichgau to Counts of Nassau
?: Hermann of Katzenelnbogen served as an ambassador of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
?: Dietrich of Katzenelnbogen was Emperor Henry VI's chancellor
1185: Acquired St. Goar inc. right to collect tolls on the Rhine which made them wealthy
1185: Acquired Gross-Gerau & Darmstadt as fiefs from Archbishopric of Wurzburg
1249: Acquired imperial territory of Trebur (during Interregnum)
1255: Acquired imperial territory of Dreieich (during Interregnum)
1260: Division into Upper and Lower Katzenelnbogen
1402: Two lines reunited with marriage of Anna of Lower Katzenelnbogen and Johann IV of Upper Katzenelnbogen
?: Became significant creditor to Rhenish archbishops
1422: Creation of Wetterau circle of counts
1453: Acquired part of County of Diez & lordship of Eppenstein
1457: Acquired Wetterau Fuß with collapse of Eppensteins
1479: Line extinctn; Henry III of Hesse-Marburg inherited Karzenelnbogen in right of his wife
1479-1520: Feud with Julich-Berg and Nassau
1567: Division of property among Landgrave Philip I; Upper Katzenelnbogen went to George of Hesse-Darmstadt; Lower Katzenelbogen went to George of Hesse-Rheinfels (d.1583)
1583: George of Hesse-Rheinfels' territories wet to Hesse-Kassel after his death
References.
KERPEN-LOMMERSUM
KLETTGAU
1040: Annexed to Habsburg
c1200: County of Klettgau there were the Lords of Krenkingen, the Counts of Kussaberg, Abbey of Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and Bishopric of Constance. The other important landowners in Klettgau was Abbey of Rheinauhafen.
Tiengen Klettgau
KNIPHAUSEN, KNYPHAUSEN
Territorial Possessions.
Territorial Development & Dynastic History.1215: First mention of Konigstein
County Palatinate of Kraiburg
Kriechingen
1095: Katzenelnbogen Castle built
1138: HRE Count of Katzenelnbogen
Vogt of Abbey of Prum
Vogt of Abbey of Siegburg
Vogt of Archbishopric of Mainz (area south of Lahn)
1160: Lost territory in Kraichgau to Counts of Nassau
?: Hermann of Katzenelnbogen served as an ambassador of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
?: Dietrich of Katzenelnbogen was Emperor Henry VI's chancellor
1185: Acquired St. Goar inc. right to collect tolls on the Rhine which made them wealthy
1185: Acquired Gross-Gerau & Darmstadt as fiefs from Archbishopric of Wurzburg
1249: Acquired imperial territory of Trebur (during Interregnum)
1255: Acquired imperial territory of Dreieich (during Interregnum)
1260: Division into Upper and Lower Katzenelnbogen
1402: Two lines reunited with marriage of Anna of Lower Katzenelnbogen and Johann IV of Upper Katzenelnbogen
?: Became significant creditor to Rhenish archbishops
1422: Creation of Wetterau circle of counts
1453: Acquired part of County of Diez & lordship of Eppenstein
1457: Acquired Wetterau Fuß with collapse of Eppensteins
1479: Line extinctn; Henry III of Hesse-Marburg inherited Karzenelnbogen in right of his wife
1479-1520: Feud with Julich-Berg and Nassau
1567: Division of property among Landgrave Philip I; Upper Katzenelnbogen went to George of Hesse-Darmstadt; Lower Katzenelbogen went to George of Hesse-Rheinfels (d.1583)
1583: George of Hesse-Rheinfels' territories wet to Hesse-Kassel after his death
References.
The Marriage of Anna of Wurttemberg and with Philipp the Elder of Katzenelnbogen
County of KaunitzTitles: HRE Prince of Kaunitz, Count of Rietberg & East Frisia, Lord of Esens, Stadesdorf, Wittmund & Melrich
Territorial Development & Dynastic History.
1718: HRE Estate
Territorial Development & Dynastic History.
1718: HRE Estate
1764: HRE Principality
1797: Acquired County of Questenburg
1848: Kaunitz-Rietberg line died out
KEMPENICH
References
Lords of KempenichLordship of KempenichKERPEN-LOMMERSUM
Reference
History of Kerpen CastleKLETTGAU
Territorial Development and Dynastic History.
1040: Annexed to Habsburg
c1200: County of Klettgau there were the Lords of Krenkingen, the Counts of Kussaberg, Abbey of Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and Bishopric of Constance. The other important landowners in Klettgau was Abbey of Rheinauhafen.
1282-1408: To Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg
1325: Landgrave of Klettgau
1408: Johann IV of Habsburg-Laufenburg died without heirs. Klettau passed to the Counts of Sulz through his daughter, Ursula, who was married to Rudolf of Sulz.
1501: Sold northern part of Klettgau to the Imperial City of Schaffhausen
1698: Annexed to Stephanswald-Franconia
1698: Klettgau passed to the House of Schwarzenberg through the marriage of Maria Anna of Sulz to Ferdinand of Schwarzenberg
1805: To Grand Duchy of Baden
References
Klettgau in Historical Dictionary of SwitzerlandTiengen Klettgau
KNIPHAUSEN, KNYPHAUSEN
Area: 21 square miles
Population: 3,100 (1852)
Territorial Development & Dynastic History.
1438: Lordship of Knyphausen
1588: Imperial Baron
1600s: Part of East Friesland
1624: Imperial Lordship of Knyphausen
1658: Imperial County
1667: Anton Gunther of Oldenburg bequathed it to his natural son, Anton earl of Aldenburg, together with the dominion of Varel, politically connected with it.
1733: To Counts of Bentinck
1738: William of Bentinck became possessed of Aldenburg and Varel by way of marriage and entailed them upon his descendants.
1806: When the German empire was solved, the earl of Bentinck attained to political independency
1807: Ceded by France to Prussia
1808: Earl of Bentinck subordinated to the kingdom of Holland by Napoleon
1810: To French Empire
1814: Subordinated to the duke of Oldenburg but allowed to retain some special privileges
1818: Barony of Knyphausen restored under suzerainty of Oldenburg
1825: Knyphausen a semi-sovereign Lordship under Oldenburg rule
1854: Ceded to Oldenburg
Territorial Possessions.
Sengwarden
Federwarden
Accum
Rulers of Knyphausen.
Lords (title Herr/Herrin zu Knyphausen)
1680-1701: Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoille (1652-1732), Regent
1681-1738: Anton II (1681-1738)
1738-1754: Charlotte Sophie (1715-1800)
1738-1754 William Graf von Bentinck und von Aldenburg (1704-1774)
1754-1768 Christian Friedrich Anton (1734-1768)
1768-1807 Wilhelm II Gustav Friedrich (1st time) (1762-1835)
1768-1783 Marie Katharina von Tuyll (1743-1798), Regent
1813-1814 Wilhelm II Gustav Friedrich (2nd time)
1818-1835 Wilhelm II Gustav Friedrich (3rd time)
1835-1854 Wilhelm III Friedrich Christian of Oldenburg (1787-1855)
KONIGSTEIN
County of KONIGSTEINTerritorial Development & Dynastic History.
?: To Counts of Nurings
1239: To Lords of Hagen-Munzenberg with Konigstein castle as an imperial fief
1255: To Lords of Bolanden-Falkenstein
1418: To Lords of Eppstein
1535: To Counts of Stolberg
1581: To Electorate of Mainz
1803: To Principality of Nassau-Usingen
1866: To Prussia
References.
KRAIBURG
County Palatinate of Kraiburg
KRIECHINGEN
Kriechingen
Area: 100 sq. kms.
Population: 4000
Territorial Development & Dynastic History.
?: To Duchy of Lorraine
1617: Raised to imperial estate
?: To Upper Rhenish Circle
1697: Inherited by the Principality of East Friesland
?: Inherited by the County of Wied-Runkel
1793: Occupied by Franceriechingen
KULMBACH.
1340: "...After the death of the last count of Orlamunde in 1340, the Hohenzollerns acquired Kulmbach along with the Amter of Berneck, Gefrees, and Wirsberg. The Orlamunde inheritance--nearly all allodial land--formed the core of what came to be known as the Land Oberhalb des Gebirgs, or more simply, the Oberland...." (Smith, 2008, p. 11) 
KYBURG
"Among all the nobles who during the reigns of Carlovingian princes had assumed a preponderancy which nearly eclipsed the throne, none were, for a time, more eminenet than the Counts of Kyburg. They were descended from an illustrious race of Alemmanic origin which formerly resided at Altorf in Suabia, the family seat of the Guelphs; and are said, like those of Lensburg, to have come into Helvetia across the lake of Constance. Their liberality endeared them to the people of Thurgau, where, on the projecting brow of a high mountain on the river Toss, they built their castle; and during the reign of Charlemagne erected, on the island or Rheinau, the convent of St. Findanus. They owned likewise the town and castle of Dillingen on the Danube. They obtained great opulence by marriages; and an emperor is said to have granted Count Ulric, large possessions in the Thurgau, as a recompense for having freed him from a competitior to his crown. Under the appellation of Landgrave of Thurgau, they ruled with supreme authority over the whole district from the river Glat to the Rhine, and from the Aar to the lake of Constance. After a long and glorious succession, Count Hartman died without male issue, and all his fair possessions descended to the house of Hapsburg Lauffenburg: but to this day, do some of the greatest potentates in Europe pride themselves in the addition of Kyburg, to their other numerous and splendid titles." (Planta, pp. 37-38)
"In the beginning of the twelfth century, the counts of Kyburg possessed the counties of Kyburg, Lentzburgh, and Baden ; and their territories were further increased by the accession of Burgdorf and Thun, which fell to Ulric in right of his wife Anne, sister and heir of Berchtold V, Duke of Zahringen. These domains devolving, in 1273, to Rodolph Count of Hapsburg, on the death of his uncle Hartman the elder, the last Count of Kyburg, rendered him one of the most powerful princes in these parts, and probably opened his way to the imperial throne. Before his decease, the Emperor ceded to his son Rodolph the county of Kyburg, and his other dominions in Switzerland ; and, on his demise, confirmed this grant to his grandson John, the same who assaassinated his uncle, the emperor Albert, and was called the Parricide.
"Upon the death of Albert, his sons seized and kept possession of Kyburg, and the other hereditary domains in Switzerland, and transmitted them to their posterity. In 1424, the Emperor Sigismund put under the ban of the Emperor Frederic Duke of Austria, and granted for a sum of money the county of Kyburg to Zuric. In 1442 it was restored to the House of Austria, but, in 1452, finally ceded to Zuric by Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, to liquidate a debt which he owed to the canton. From that time it has formed a bailliage in the canton of Zuric; but the title of Count of Kyburg has been always used by the House of Austria, and is still retained by its present illustrious descendant Joseph the Second." (Pinkerton, p. 680)
"Counts of the 12-13. Century, the possession stretched from eastern Switzerland (Zurich and Thurgau) to the present Canton of Aargau, Bern and Fribourg. 1180, the K. dissolved as an independent branch of the east is from 1111 after her from Ulm on the Danube, Burg specified shall Gf. Dillingen. These in turn are linked because of their Leitnamen with HE Ulrich of Augsburg (890-973) and the family of the Hupaldinger. Although perhaps their ancestors in today's northern Switzerland were wealthy, voted on Gf. Dillingen here until about 1065 / 70 foot. About marriage Hartmann von Dillingen (
1121) to Adelaide was the extensive properties in the old family Thurgau and at least on such claims in the area of Winterthur and the castle K. The origin of Adelaide and their property rights are contested. The older historiography (Carl Brun and especially Paul Kläui) saw her as a descendant of Gf. of Groningen-Winterthur. The introduced control of her was once part of a vast, managed by the Lords of Winterthur property have been confiscated by the emperor for the 1030 and the Gf.have given of Ebersberg. From there, this was the Lords of the Achalm Gf. of Groningen-Winterthur passes, which he would then be inherited by the related Adelheid. The recent historiography (Erwin Eugster) identified as a descendant of a clan Adelaide, however, their possessions in the room Winterthur-K. in 1050 the castle of Nelle, a call from then lost to Winterthur border branch of the Udalrichinger. The Gf. Dillingen-K. would, according to this theory, citing the needs of Adelaide's relatives after the extinction of Nellenburger to 1100 to mid-12th set centuries in the possession of a share of the inheritance and thus against other heirs as Adalbert von Mörsburg that Gf. Veringen or enforced by the HE of Konstanz.
"Among the grandchildren Hartmann von Dillingen possession of the family was split: Adalbert ( 1170) took over the share in Swabia, Hartmann III. ( -> 1 ) those in northern Switzerland.From the middle of the 12th Century moved in the environment of the K. Staufer. So the marriage is Hartmann's III. with Richenza, the heiress of Arnold Baden-Lenzburg, probably less of a diplomatic marriage policy reason, but rather the fact that the family in this way in the Stauffer. Clientele should be involved. After the departure of Lenzburg 1172/73 in addition to the Hohenstaufen and Zähringers also received the Gf. K. an inheritance share. What this was is not clear. secured as reasonably apply to the shares Allodi Arnold of Lenzburg in the room and Walen-Gaster in the area of Baden. Other goods and rights such as the advocacy of the pin and Schänis Beromünster probably first came to the Hohenstaufen and later taken over by the K.. In connection with the heritage Lenzburger apparently remained much disputed. Thus, Lenzburg and various estates in eastern Switzerland in 1254 still claimed by Elizabeth of Chalon and her husband, Hartmann V. ( -> 3 ), called the Younger, transfer - one in Gf. K. alongside and sometimes combined with the award of monasteries and over again to be observed way to settle disputed ownership.
"Another wesentl. Possession of the growth experienced in 1218 as the heirs of dialed K. Zähringer. to extend welfare to its influence in eastern Switzerland, Berchtold V. of Zähringen had, the last of his race, his daughter Anna Ulrich III. ( -> 5 ), son Hartmann III married.. After the death of Berchtold V., Ulrich was able III. with Egeno of Urach, also a son-face many competitors as the main legacy of the Zähringer. Own freight claim. In this way the K. came to the left of Tom. Estates in Burgundy with the cities of Freiburg, Thun and Burgdorf in the canton of Aargau and Zurich today. The Zurich Reichsvogtei they could not save because of the lack of support of the Hohenstaufen, however, nor the kingdom in 1226 as Governor of the monastery of St. Gallen. As a result, they turned increasingly away from the Swabians to 1243 and were one of the mainstays of the papal., Anti-Hohenstaufen. Party.
"Initial attempts to compress the domination took the family around 1180 (county of Kyburg ).In that time founded the Gf. K. Diessenhofen and Winterthur and the cities began in their core area and to establish its own ministerial Lena Dels they with former followers of Lenzburg in 1218 and completed by even the Zahringer. At the same time tried to K., the heritage of free family dialed up in space, such as that of the lords of Weisslingen and Ross mountain to bring on themselves by appealed to a superior right of escheat. Not least because of the Hohenstaufen. Presence of this policy came to a halt after 1220. Therefore, from now on was the backup or neutralization of controversial goods and rights in the foreground. Thus, the family founded in 1225 in the center of the possession of the former Baron of Weisslingen at Winterthur as grave lay the monastery Holy Mountain and in 1233 the west of the city of Winterthur, the monastery Töss, they also with occupied Weissling and Ross Berger goods of refinement and with whom she appeared to her territory against its regional competitors, the Gf. demarcated from Rapperswil.
Delineation and balance against the rival investigated the K. of this course with their own marriage policy to: make Hartmann V, a grandson of Ulrich III. Those who got engaged around 1227 to Anna of Rapperswil, his uncle, Hartmann IV ( -> 2 ), called the Elder, married Margaret of Savoy from the family of Kyburg. Competitors in the West and its sister Heilwig, the future King mother of Rudolf I von Habsburg, Albrecht von Habsburg. After the abolition of the Hohenstaufen. Threat in 1245 was the Gf. K. of their backwardness in the field of regionalization not catch up, though in 1230 the city train and swimming, then Frauenfeld, Aarau, Lenzburg, and Melling, and in 1250 Sursee, Weesen, the castle towns and K. Laupen and later dialed cities Richensee and had established Huttwil. The family was looking to streamline management by participating in her yard a highly educated, began primarily from clergy existing senior staff, in the cities a new service nobility settled (for example, the Steward of Diessenhofen) and with the development of a more started on the literacy-based office management that was not supported by aristocratic officers.
"1250/51 the childless Hartmann gave IV the western part of the property with Burgdorf joined as a center to his nephew Hartmann V. As a result, Hartmann V, which is based on Habsburg, in the West again and again with the rising of Bern and the city Mr Peter II composed of Savoy, while his uncle with Zurich, or the rain from mountain looked rather balancing and often acted as arbitrators. When Hartmann died V. 1263, took over Gf. Rudolf von Habsburg as guardian of his daughter Anna, the administration of the west, following the death of Hartmann's IV only a year later to 1273 that of the other parts of Kyburg. Rule, and sat down against the claims by the widow Margaret of Savoy and their family." (Leonhard, HDS)
"The family of New Kyburg (Kyburg also called Castle Village)
Counts in the Upper Aargau ( 1418), from the House of Habsburg-Laufen Castle, Landgraf in Burgundy from 1314 as a Hapsburg. Vassals. The house was founded, K. Burgdorf on part of Kyburg. West property by the continuation of the sex line, thanks to Mrs. K. Anne, daughter Hartmann V. She married around 1273 Eberhard I von Habsburg-Laufenburg. During the marriage it was a work habsburg.-Austrian. Territorial and family policy to ensure the Habsburgs. the interests of Kyburg. Heir to the claims of Gf. of Savoy.
"The new rule-K. included only the west part of the old Kyburg. Dominion, namely the Upper Aargau with the centers Burgdorf, Wangen an der Aare and Landshut castle and town and district of Thun Thun including exterior. The genealogy is pretty well documented over five generations. There were marriage relations with Habsburg-running Castle, Gf. of Neuchâtel Nidau, the Baron of Signau, the Gf. If mountain Holy Mountain as well as the Alsatian Gf. of Rappoltstein. Politically, had the Gf. of New-K. with Gf. von Habsburg-Austria and the Gf. deal of Savoy and the Savoy after the withdrawal from the polit power play with the city of Bern.Economists. Weakness of the new Fam-K. Caused by the recent recalled in Gf. caused by K-Dillingen onset debt was, and the Territorialisierungsbestrebungen the eastern and western neighbors led to an ever-changing alliances with wavering attitude towards the Austrian-habsburg.. Domination of the country and the increasingly stronger as the spreading city of Berne on the other side.
"In 1313 the brothers were Hartmann and Eberhard II II, grandson of Eberhard I, in deed for the vassal of Habsburg Austria under the object of the eastern parts of the old ruling K. (including Zurich and Thurgau). The total hand-inheritance of the said Fam throughout frequent lodging surplus offspring in clerical careers, especially in the pins of Strasbourg, and Basel. The conflict over the unanimous adoption of the rule between Hartmann II and Eberhard II led in 1322 to the well-known in the historiography of "fratricide on the Thun Castle", by the came was expelled into a geistl. Office Eberhard II in the possession of the rule . As a defense against Habsburg. Punishment procedures it agreed with Bern, but finally got this under whose access: 1323 was the sale of town, castle and outer district of Thun to Bern, which gave the city back to Eberhard II. After the new-K. from mid-14th Century were especially heavily indebted in Bernese citizens were increasing, from the 1370s to the sales. The 1363 of Hartmann III. by K. Burgdorf, son of Eberhard II, made sales of mortgage Burgdorf, Thun and Oltingen to Austria and this dependence increased again. The inheritance of part of the rule-Neuchâtel Nidau after 1375 brought by his son Rudolf II of the financial situation with no relief, since this legacy was in debt partly strong, some were pledged in 1379 to Austria. The final collapse of the rule began after 1382 in the wake of the war Burgdorfer associated with a failed attack on Rudolph II had broken out after Solothurn. The military. Discussion of Bern and Solothurn ended in 1384 with the sale of tuna - the Mitherr Bern from 1375 was - and Burgdorf in Bern. The death of Berchtold I., uncle of Rudolph II in 1417 meant the physical end of the dynasty New-K. and the endpoint of a sustained over a century economists. and social decline." (Halg in HDS)
"Counts of the 12-13. Century, the possession stretched from eastern Switzerland (Zurich and Thurgau) to the present Canton of Aargau, Bern and Fribourg. 1180, the K. dissolved as an independent branch of the east is from 1111 after her from Ulm on the Danube, Burg specified shall Gf. Dillingen. These in turn are linked because of their Leitnamen with HE Ulrich of Augsburg (890-973) and the family of the Hupaldinger. Although perhaps their ancestors in today's northern Switzerland were wealthy, voted on Gf. Dillingen here until about 1065 / 70 foot. About marriage Hartmann von Dillingen (
1121) to Adelaide was the extensive properties in the old family Thurgau and at least on such claims in the area of Winterthur and the castle K. The origin of Adelaide and their property rights are contested. The older historiography (Carl Brun and especially Paul Kläui) saw her as a descendant of Gf. of Groningen-Winterthur. The introduced control of her was once part of a vast, managed by the Lords of Winterthur property have been confiscated by the emperor for the 1030 and the Gf.have given of Ebersberg. From there, this was the Lords of the Achalm Gf. of Groningen-Winterthur passes, which he would then be inherited by the related Adelheid. The recent historiography (Erwin Eugster) identified as a descendant of a clan Adelaide, however, their possessions in the room Winterthur-K. in 1050 the castle of Nelle, a call from then lost to Winterthur border branch of the Udalrichinger. The Gf. Dillingen-K. would, according to this theory, citing the needs of Adelaide's relatives after the extinction of Nellenburger to 1100 to mid-12th set centuries in the possession of a share of the inheritance and thus against other heirs as Adalbert von Mörsburg that Gf. Veringen or enforced by the HE of Konstanz."Among the grandchildren Hartmann von Dillingen possession of the family was split: Adalbert (
1170) took over the share in Swabia, Hartmann III. ( -> 1 ) those in northern Switzerland.From the middle of the 12th Century moved in the environment of the K. Staufer. So the marriage is Hartmann's III. with Richenza, the heiress of Arnold Baden-Lenzburg, probably less of a diplomatic marriage policy reason, but rather the fact that the family in this way in the Stauffer. Clientele should be involved. After the departure of Lenzburg 1172/73 in addition to the Hohenstaufen and Zähringers also received the Gf. K. an inheritance share. What this was is not clear. secured as reasonably apply to the shares Allodi Arnold of Lenzburg in the room and Walen-Gaster in the area of Baden. Other goods and rights such as the advocacy of the pin and Schänis Beromünster probably first came to the Hohenstaufen and later taken over by the K.. In connection with the heritage Lenzburger apparently remained much disputed. Thus, Lenzburg and various estates in eastern Switzerland in 1254 still claimed by Elizabeth of Chalon and her husband, Hartmann V. ( -> 3 ), called the Younger, transfer - one in Gf. K. alongside and sometimes combined with the award of monasteries and over again to be observed way to settle disputed ownership."Another wesentl. Possession of the growth experienced in 1218 as the heirs of dialed K. Zähringer. to extend welfare to its influence in eastern Switzerland, Berchtold V. of Zähringen had, the last of his race, his daughter Anna Ulrich III. ( -> 5 ), son Hartmann III married.. After the death of Berchtold V., Ulrich was able III. with Egeno of Urach, also a son-face many competitors as the main legacy of the Zähringer. Own freight claim. In this way the K. came to the left of Tom. Estates in Burgundy with the cities of Freiburg, Thun and Burgdorf in the canton of Aargau and Zurich today. The Zurich Reichsvogtei they could not save because of the lack of support of the Hohenstaufen, however, nor the kingdom in 1226 as Governor of the monastery of St. Gallen. As a result, they turned increasingly away from the Swabians to 1243 and were one of the mainstays of the papal., Anti-Hohenstaufen. Party.
"Initial attempts to compress the domination took the family around 1180 (county of Kyburg ).In that time founded the Gf. K. Diessenhofen and Winterthur and the cities began in their core area and to establish its own ministerial Lena Dels they with former followers of Lenzburg in 1218 and completed by even the Zahringer. At the same time tried to K., the heritage of free family dialed up in space, such as that of the lords of Weisslingen and Ross mountain to bring on themselves by appealed to a superior right of escheat. Not least because of the Hohenstaufen. Presence of this policy came to a halt after 1220. Therefore, from now on was the backup or neutralization of controversial goods and rights in the foreground. Thus, the family founded in 1225 in the center of the possession of the former Baron of Weisslingen at Winterthur as grave lay the monastery Holy Mountain and in 1233 the west of the city of Winterthur, the monastery Töss, they also with occupied Weissling and Ross Berger goods of refinement and with whom she appeared to her territory against its regional competitors, the Gf. demarcated from Rapperswil.
Delineation and balance against the rival investigated the K. of this course with their own marriage policy to: make Hartmann V, a grandson of Ulrich III. Those who got engaged around 1227 to Anna of Rapperswil, his uncle, Hartmann IV ( -> 2 ), called the Elder, married Margaret of Savoy from the family of Kyburg. Competitors in the West and its sister Heilwig, the future King mother of Rudolf I von Habsburg, Albrecht von Habsburg. After the abolition of the Hohenstaufen. Threat in 1245 was the Gf. K. of their backwardness in the field of regionalization not catch up, though in 1230 the city train and swimming, then Frauenfeld, Aarau, Lenzburg, and Melling, and in 1250 Sursee, Weesen, the castle towns and K. Laupen and later dialed cities Richensee and had established Huttwil. The family was looking to streamline management by participating in her yard a highly educated, began primarily from clergy existing senior staff, in the cities a new service nobility settled (for example, the Steward of Diessenhofen) and with the development of a more started on the literacy-based office management that was not supported by aristocratic officers.
"1250/51 the childless Hartmann gave IV the western part of the property with Burgdorf joined as a center to his nephew Hartmann V. As a result, Hartmann V, which is based on Habsburg, in the West again and again with the rising of Bern and the city Mr Peter II composed of Savoy, while his uncle with Zurich, or the rain from mountain looked rather balancing and often acted as arbitrators. When Hartmann died V. 1263, took over Gf. Rudolf von Habsburg as guardian of his daughter Anna, the administration of the west, following the death of Hartmann's IV only a year later to 1273 that of the other parts of Kyburg. Rule, and sat down against the claims by the widow Margaret of Savoy and their family." (Leonhard, HDS)
"The family of New Kyburg (Kyburg also called Castle Village)
Counts in the Upper Aargau (
1418), from the House of Habsburg-Laufen Castle, Landgraf in Burgundy from 1314 as a Hapsburg. Vassals. The house was founded, K. Burgdorf on part of Kyburg. West property by the continuation of the sex line, thanks to Mrs. K. Anne, daughter Hartmann V. She married around 1273 Eberhard I von Habsburg-Laufenburg. During the marriage it was a work habsburg.-Austrian. Territorial and family policy to ensure the Habsburgs. the interests of Kyburg. Heir to the claims of Gf. of Savoy."The new rule-K. included only the west part of the old Kyburg. Dominion, namely the Upper Aargau with the centers Burgdorf, Wangen an der Aare and Landshut castle and town and district of Thun Thun including exterior. The genealogy is pretty well documented over five generations. There were marriage relations with Habsburg-running Castle, Gf. of Neuchâtel Nidau, the Baron of Signau, the Gf. If mountain Holy Mountain as well as the Alsatian Gf. of Rappoltstein. Politically, had the Gf. of New-K. with Gf. von Habsburg-Austria and the Gf. deal of Savoy and the Savoy after the withdrawal from the polit power play with the city of Bern.Economists. Weakness of the new Fam-K. Caused by the recent recalled in Gf. caused by K-Dillingen onset debt was, and the Territorialisierungsbestrebungen the eastern and western neighbors led to an ever-changing alliances with wavering attitude towards the Austrian-habsburg.. Domination of the country and the increasingly stronger as the spreading city of Berne on the other side.
"In 1313 the brothers were Hartmann and Eberhard II II, grandson of Eberhard I, in deed for the vassal of Habsburg Austria under the object of the eastern parts of the old ruling K. (including Zurich and Thurgau). The total hand-inheritance of the said Fam throughout frequent lodging surplus offspring in clerical careers, especially in the pins of Strasbourg, and Basel. The conflict over the unanimous adoption of the rule between Hartmann II and Eberhard II led in 1322 to the well-known in the historiography of "fratricide on the Thun Castle", by the came was expelled into a geistl. Office Eberhard II in the possession of the rule . As a defense against Habsburg. Punishment procedures it agreed with Bern, but finally got this under whose access: 1323 was the sale of town, castle and outer district of Thun to Bern, which gave the city back to Eberhard II. After the new-K. from mid-14th Century were especially heavily indebted in Bernese citizens were increasing, from the 1370s to the sales. The 1363 of Hartmann III. by K. Burgdorf, son of Eberhard II, made sales of mortgage Burgdorf, Thun and Oltingen to Austria and this dependence increased again. The inheritance of part of the rule-Neuchâtel Nidau after 1375 brought by his son Rudolf II of the financial situation with no relief, since this legacy was in debt partly strong, some were pledged in 1379 to Austria. The final collapse of the rule began after 1382 in the wake of the war Burgdorfer associated with a failed attack on Rudolph II had broken out after Solothurn. The military. Discussion of Bern and Solothurn ended in 1384 with the sale of tuna - the Mitherr Bern from 1375 was - and Burgdorf in Bern. The death of Berchtold I., uncle of Rudolph II in 1417 meant the physical end of the dynasty New-K. and the endpoint of a sustained over a century economists. and social decline." (Halg in HDS)
Counts of Kyburg.
WINTERTHUR
c. 1020-1053: Adalbert I
DILLINGEN
Hartmann I (d.1121)
Count of Kyburg, c1078-1121
"Graf Hartmann I. Dillingen acquired around 1065, through his marriage with Adelaide of Winterthur of the House of UDALRICHINGER, extensive estates in the Northern Switzerland. For their protection, he built the castle of Kyburg which...soon became a stronghold of the eponymous family. After Hartmann's death in 1121 the family estate was divided between his Hartmann II (+1134, no children) and Hartmann III. (+1180)...." (EMA, Vol. V, p. 119)
Otto
(Count in Buchhorn)
Count of Kyburg, ?-1089/95
Adalbert II
Count of Kyburg, 1091-1151
Hartmann II
1121-1126/34
Hartmann III
1152-1180
Ulrich III
1180-1227
"...Ulrich (+1227) was the progenitor of the counts of Kyburg. Through his marriage to Anne of Zähringen, he acquired, after the death of Berthold V in 1218, a large part of the Zähringer heritage in Switzerland which he received from Frederick II...." (EMA, Vol. V, p. 119)
Werner I
1227-1228
Hartmann IV the Elder
? -1264
Hartmann V the Younger
1228-1263
"After the extinction of the Counts of Kyburg, a small portion of the inheritance fell to Count Eberhard von Habsburg-Laufenburg as the husband of Anne, daughter Hartmann V.. For the most part, however, Rudolf von Habsburg, the son of Hedwig, sister of Hartmann's IV succeeded to Lenzburg, Kyburg and the Zähringer properties in northern in Switzerland...." (EMA, Vol. V, p. 119)
HABSBURG
Rudolf I
1264-1272
Habsburg-Lauffenburg
Eberhard I
1273-1284
Hartmann I (VI)
1284-1301
Hartmann II (VII)
1301-1322
Eberhard II
1301/22-1357
Egon I
1357-1365
Eberhard IV
1357-1371
Hartmann III (VIII)
1357-1377
Johan I
1357-1391
Eberhard III
1357-1395
Rudolf I
1357-1404
Six years after this (1382), the free imperial-city of Solothurn was in great danger. Not far from the city lived count Rudolf of Kyburg, in the mountain-castle of Bipp, which he had received on pledge from the counts of Thierstein. He was grieved that so much property had been alienated from his very ancient and formerly wealthy family, in consequence of the poor economy of his father. Thun, the city of his ancestors, had fallen to Berne on mortgage; so had Aarberg. He had some claim on Solothurn, in virtue of certain rights. He thought he could recover the whole by a bold stroke. He secretly enlisted auxiliaries on the right and left. He intended to surprise and take Solothurn in the darkness of the night. The prior of the church of St. Ursus, in that city, was his uncle. A canon of the cathedral, John Amstein, who lived on the city-wall, was to admit the soldiers through Iris-house, and to muffle the alarm-bell with cloths. Every thing was ready. The night came, and the enemy were already advancing towards the city in the darkness.
But John Rott, a peasant of Rumisberg, ran ahead of them in the midnight hour, and informed the watchmen at the east gate of the count's murderous projects. They tried to ring the alarm-bell, but in vain. Cries of terror resounded through the streets. All seized their arms ; all hastened to the walls. When Rudolf of Kyburg saw this unexpected vigilance, he retired with shame. John Amstein, the traitorous canon, was punished by quartering; to recompense John Rott, on the contrary, it was decreed, that Solothurn should, every year thenceforward, give to the eldest of his descendants, a new coat in the colors of the city, red and white.
From this day, the affairs of lord Rudolf of Kyburg went from bad to worse; Solothurn and Berne, to avenge themselves, ravaged his property and that of his friends. The want of money deprived him of all assistance. He took this much to heart and died. His brothers, however, fought valiantly for their heritage. Many noble lords embraced their cause. Then Berne called on the Confederates. Great misfortunes befell Kyburg, and the counts made a disadvantageous peace; abandoned in perpetuity Thun and their office of bailiff over woody Grussisberg, and sold -to the Bernese Burgdorf, already besieged by their troops. Berne paid the Confederates for their assistance, and Solothurn for the expenses of the war, in money. Thus the bloody enterprise of the Kyburgs against Solothurn terminated in their own ruin, and Berne derived the greatest advantages from her valor and prudence; and Berne did this at a time when within her own walls dwelt an enemy much more dangerous to liberty than all the power of Kyburg." (Zschokke & Zschokke, pp. 65-66)
References.
The Counts of Kyburg-Overview
References.
The Counts of Kyburg-Overview
Planta, Joseph (1800). The History of the Helvetic Confederacy. J. Stockdale.
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