Ulrich II von Graben (before 1300 – c. 1361) was a Styrian noble, a member of the edelfrei Von Graben family. He held the titles as Lord of Kornberg and Graben[1] (near Novo Mesto in Lower Carniola), as well as burgrave of Gleichenberg, Rothenfels[2] and Hohenwang.[3]

Life

Origin and Family

This historical sketch shows Ulrich I, his coat of arms with a blue diagonal left bar on silver, and three of his sons Otto I, Ulrich II and Frederik I von Graben, founders of the Kornberg line, and their new coat of arms with the shovel. Behind Ulrich lies Neu-Gleichenberg, which he had rebuilt on behalf of the Lords of Walsee. Above the coats of arms of Walsee and Stubenberg, his feudal lords. (Drawing by Matthias Laurenz Gräff)

He was the son of Ulrich I von Graben, burgrave of Gleichenberg, and his wife Gertrud (both died before 1325). His father had entered the service of the Lords of Walsee, a Swabian dynasty with extended properties in the Styrian lands, and from 1302 appeared as a vassal of the Stubenberg family.

Ulrich II was married with Barbara, daughter of Johann von Auersperg and Cimburgis Schauerpeck, and later with a Lady called Gertraud (died before 1375). He seemed to have left no children,[4] as his heritage passed to his surviving brother Frederick and his nephew Frederick the Younger.

Coat of arms

Ancient coat of arms
Coat of arms as Lords of Kornberg, Siebmachers Wappenbuch (1605)

The joint purchase of Kornberg by the brothers Otto I, Ulrich II and Friedrich I in 1328 from Friedrich Kornberger, together with the coat of arms and accessories[5] resulted in the adoption of a new coat of arms, the one with the shovel, the Spade. This could explain the deviating family coat of arms of the Kornberg line of the Lords of Graben and their descents in Lower Austria, Tyrol and the Netherlands (but not in Carinthia and East Tyrol) to the family coat of arms with the diagonal bar.

  • Annotation:

From his mother Gertraud von Graben (Gertraud Grabner) her coat of arms seal with the diagonal bar from the year 1331 has been preserved.[6]

Career

Ulrich II was first mentioned in a 1300 deed, making donations to the Cistercian abbey of Rein in Styria. In 1314 he acquired the village of Wetzelsdorf. After 1325 he succeeded his father as Burgrave of [7] In 1328, together with his brothers Otto and Frederick, he bought the Lordship (Herrschaft) and Castle of Kornberg[8] with a new family coat of arms.[9] The Kornberg fief remained the ancestral seat of the Styrian branch of the Graben family until the extinction of the line in 1556. Ulrich and his brothers also purchased the villages of Edelsbach and Krottendorf.

From 1343, Ulrich served as burgrave of Rothenfels,[10] an estate then held by the Prince-Bishops of Freising. In 1354 he received the Styrian Burgraviate / Lordship and Castle of Hohenwang from the Habsburg duke Albert II of Austria in pawn.[11]

Furthermore, Ulrich von Graben owned his family's ancient castle in Carniola, Graben Castle, near Novo mesto.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor: Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain: das ist, Wahre, gründliche, und recht eigendliche Belegen- und Beschaffenheit dieses Römisch-Keyserlichen herrlichen Erblandes. Laybach (Ljubljana) 1689
  2. ↑ Burg Rothenfels ((in German)) Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Burg Hohenwang (german) Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: Die Herren vom Graben in Zeitschrift des historischen Vereines für Steiermark. 51. Jahrgang, Graz 1960, p 92
  5. ↑ Mahlerische Streifzüge in den Umgebungen der Hauptstadt Grätz. By Joseph August Kumar (p 285)
  6. ↑ Beitraege zur Siegelkunde des mittelalters: Erster Theil, p 241, by Eduard Melly
  7. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: Die Herren vom Graben in Zeitschrift des historischen Vereines für Steiermark. 51. Jahrgang, Graz 1960, p 62
  8. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: Die Herren vom Graben in Zeitschrift des historischen Vereines für Steiermark. 51. Jahrgang, Graz 1960, p 58
  9. ↑ Mahlerische Streifzüge in den Umgebungen der Hauptstadt Grätz. Von Joseph August Kumar (p 285)
  10. ↑ Adalbert Sikora: Die Herren vom Graben in Zeitschrift des historischen Vereines für Steiermark. 51. Jahrgang, Graz 1960, p 62
  11. ↑ Wehrbauten in Österreich, Burgruine Hohenwang
  12. ↑ Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor: Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain: das ist, Wahre, gründliche, und recht eigendliche Belegen- und Beschaffenheit dieses Römisch-Keyserlichen herrlichen Erblandes. Laybach (Ljubljana) 1689

Literature

  • Adalbert Sikora: Die Herren vom Graben in Zeitschrift des historischen Vereines für Steiermark. 51. Jahrgang, Graz 1960
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