Herren von Graben, also named ''von (dem) Graben'', ''vom Graben'', ''Grabner'', ''Grabner zu Rosenburg'', ''Graben zu Kornberg'', ''Graben zu Sommeregg'', ''Graben von (zum) Stein'', and ''ab dem Graben'' was the name of an old
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noble
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family.
History
Originally from
Carniola
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, an apparent (or
illegitimate
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) branch of the
House of Meinhardin, the family spread in neighboring countries. The earliest known members of the Graben family,
Konrad and his brother Grimoald von Graben, lived around 1170.
[Von Graben Forschung (german)](_blank)
/ref>
During the middle ages family went on to rule some Carinthian
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, Lower Austria
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n, Tyrolian, East Tyrol
East Tyrol, occasionally East Tirol (german: Osttirol), is an exclave of the Austrian state of Tyrol, separated from the main North Tyrol part by the short common border of Salzburg and Italian South Tyrol (''Südtirol'', it, Alto Adige). It is c ...
s, Styrian, Gorizian and modern Italian
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districts as '' Burggrafen'' (a sort of viscount
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) and ''Herren'' (lords) from the early Middle Ages
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until the 16th-17th centuries. The last member was Felix Jakob von Graben who lives in Tyrol; the family died out in 1776 or 1780.
Coat of arms
There are three forms of representation of the gender coat of arms, Von Graben, which have their connection to one another through the established family genealogy. Originally, the family carried the coat of arms with the blue oblique beam to silver. From 1328 (until 1556/1564), the Von Graben family of the Kornberg line bore the coat of arms with the shovel (silver shovel on red). However, the derived line Von Graben zu Sommeregg (Andreas von Graben
Andreas von Graben zu Sommeregg (15th century – 1463) was a Carinthian knight and nobleman residing at Sommeregg Castle. He served as a burgrave and castellan governor in the Ortenburg estates, held by the Counts of Celje until 1456.
Life Fam ...
, d. 1463) adopted the oblique beam coat of arms (red, divided by blue and silver) at the time when it was converted into Ortenburger services came. A distinction is made between the family coat of arms with the blue diagonal left bar on silver (also variant with diagonal right bar), the silver shovel on red coat of arms and the coat of arms split from red, and divided three times by blue and silver (or black).
Stammwappen Herren von Graben (Schräglinksbalken).jpg, Coat of arms with blue diagonal left bar on silver (ancient)
Von Graben, Wappen der Kornberger Linie.jpg, Coat of arms with silver shovel on red (variant with shovel)
Graben Scheibler433ps.jpg, Coat of arms with split from red, blue and silver divided
Wappenvarianten der Herren von Graben.png, Both coat of arms versions of the Von Graben (archiv Matthias Laurenz Gräff
Matthias Laurenz Gräff (also known as ''Matthias Laurenz Gräff Ilpenstein''; born 19 July 1984) is an Austrian academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal f ...
)
# Line am Graben (Carniola): blue diagonal left bar on silver
## Line am Graben, Grabenhofen (Graz, Styria): blue diagonal left bar on silver (also variant with diagonal right bar)
### Branch at Thal: blue diagonal left bar on silver (also variant with diagonal right bar)
### Rosenberger branch (later House of Orsini-RosenbergI): blue diagonal right bar on silver
### Line Grabner zu Rosenburg (Second line in Lower Austria): blue diagonal right bar on silver
### Kornberg line (Styria): silver shovel on red
#### First line in Lower Austria: silver shovel on red
#### First Tyrolean line: silver shovel on red
##### Swiss line: silver shovel coat on red
#### Family Graeff / De Graeff: silver shovel on red
#### Sommeregg line (Carinthia): split from red, and divided three times by blue and silver
##### Line am Stein (Carinthia): split from red, and divided three times by blue and silver
###### Second Tyrolean line: split from red, and divided three times by blue and silver
The lines of the family
Originally from Carniola, a line settled in Styria around Graz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...
. This line is named "Line Am Graben". During the later 13th century the later princely family Orsini-Rosenberg
The House of Orsini-Rosenberg (also Ursin-Rosenberg) is the name of an old Austrian noble family. The family is mediatized and as such belongs to the high nobility. It originally sprang out from the Graben family (an apparent or illegitimate bra ...
descended from a member of the family who lived at the Grazer Castle Alt-Grabenhofen, between ''Reinerkogel'' and ''Rosenberg''. During the early 14th century, the family split into four main lines, the Styrian '' Grabenhofen line'', the ''Grabner (zu Rosenburg
Rosenburg is a castle in the municipality Rosenburg-Mold, Lower Austria, Austria. Rosenburg is on a cliff above the valley of the River Kamp at an elevation of above sea level. It is one of Austria's most visited Renaissance castles. It is sit ...
)'' line in Lower Austria, the '' Kornberger line'' and their Dutch offspring (De) Graeff,[ Family De Graeff at the ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek'', part II ](_blank)
/ref> and during the earlier 15th century in the Carynthian-Lienzer '' Sommeregger line''. In 1500, the family split into a new line, the ''Stein Line'' at Castle Stein. Two other lines of the Graben family can be found in Tyrol, and one in Switzerland. A detailed list of the lines and branches can be found here:
# Counts of Gorizia, Meinhardin
## Line Am Graben (Carniola), before 1170-13th century
### Line Am Graben, Grabenhofen (Graz, Styria), before 1259-1468
#### Branch at Thal, early 14th century-after 1341
#### Rosenberger branch (later House of Orsini-RosenbergI), after 1322
#### Line Grabner zu Rosenburg (Second line in Lower Austria), before 1314-mid 17th century
#### Kornberg line (Styria), before 1325-1564
##### First line in Lower Austria, 1324-1421
##### First Tyrolean line, 2nd half 15th century-after 1519
###### Swiss line, unknown
##### Graeff / De Graeff family (The Netherlands), 1484
##### Sommeregg line (Carinthia), before 1436-early 17th century
###### Line am Stein (Carinthia), 1500-1664 in male line
####### Second Tyrolean line, early 16th century-1776/80
Kornberger line
The Grabner zu Kornberg came from Styria in Graz and belonged to the same tribe as the Grabner zu Rosenburg. The first important member of the family was Ulrich II von Graben
Ulrich II von Graben (before 1300 – ) was a Styrian noble, a member of the ''edelfrei'' Von Graben family. He held the titles as Lord of Kornberg and Graben Castle (near Novo Mesto in Lower Carniola), as well as burgrave of Gleichenberg, Rot ...
(named between 1300–1361), who was elevated to the Styrian title of '' Burggraf of Hohenwang''. The Styrian line's residence between 1328 and 1556 was at Schloss Kornberg
Schloss Kornberg is a castle near Riegersburg, Styria, Austria.
History
Kornberg Castle was first mentioned in documents in 1284. It originally served not as a residential but as an fortified complex of the Lords of Kornberg to the hungarian ...
. Between 1456 and 1564, the Kornberg line was owned the important Lordship Marburg
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with Obermarburg and the Marburg Castle
The Marburger Schloss (or ''Marburg castle''), also known as Landgrafenschloss Marburg, is a castle in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, located on top of Schlossberg (287 m NAP). Built in the 11th century as a fort, it became the first residence o ...
. They were linked by marriage with the Lords of Windisch-Graetz
The House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, is an Austrian-Slovenian aristocratic family, descending from Windischgraz in Lower Styria (present-day Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). The noble dynasty serving the House of Habsburg achieve ...
, Auersperg, Stubenberg, and Guttenberg. The Dutch family De Graeff
De Graeff (; also: '' De Graef, Graef, Graeff, Graaff'', Graaf and ''De Graeff van Polsbroek'') is an old Dutch patrician and noble family,
The Amsterdam line of the family played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age. They were at the ce ...
claimed descent from Wolfgang von Graben
Wolfgang von Graben, also ''Wolfgang de Groben (de Gröben)'' and ''Wolfgang Grabenski'' (1465 – 11 December 1521) was born in Kornberg castle, Styria and a member of the Austrian nobility. He held the titles as a Lord of Graben, Kornb ...
, a member of the Graben family. Andries de Graeff
Andries de Graeff (19 February 1611 – 30 November 1678) was a powerful member of the Amsterdam branch of the De Graeff - family during the Dutch Golden Age. He became a mayor of Amsterdam and a powerful Amsterdam regent after the death of his ...
and his son Cornelis
Cornelis is a Dutch language, Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius (name), Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees (given name), Kees, Neel and Nelis.
Cornelis (Kees) an ...
became Free Imperial knights of the Holy Roman Empire
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. That diploma dates from 19 July 1677:
Fide digis itegur genealogistarum Amsteldamensium edocti testimoniis te Andream de Graeff ndries de Graeffnon paternum solum ex pervetusta in Comitatu nostro Tyrolensi von Graben dicta familia originem ducere, qua olim per quendam ex ascendentibus tuis ejus nominis in Belgium traducta et in Petrum de Graeff ieter Graeff abavum, Johannem an Pietersz Graeff proavum, Theodorum irck Jansz Graeff avum, ac tandem Jacobum acob Dircksz de Graeff patrem tuum, viros in civitate, Amstelodamensi continua serie consulatum scabinatus senatorii ordinis dignitabitus conspicuos et in publicum bene semper meritos propagata nobiliter et cum splendore inter suos se semper gessaerit interque alios honores praerogativasque nobilibus eo locorum proprias liberum venandi jus in Hollandia, Frisiaque occidentale ac Ultrajectina provinciis habuerit semper et exercuerit.
The Kornberg line died out in 1664 with the death of Anna von Graben. The Lords of Stadl were heirs to their extensive Estate. The inheritance included the possessions of Marburg / Maribor, Kornberg, Rohrbach an der Lafnitz
Rohrbach an der Lafnitz is a municipality in Styria, Austria. It is in the judicial district of Hartberg and the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld.
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, Grabenhofen with Alt-Grabenhofen Castle, Liechtenberg and Krottenhofen.
= Members
=
* Ulrich II von Graben
Ulrich II von Graben (before 1300 – ) was a Styrian noble, a member of the ''edelfrei'' Von Graben family. He held the titles as Lord of Kornberg and Graben Castle (near Novo Mesto in Lower Carniola), as well as burgrave of Gleichenberg, Rot ...
(named between 1300 and 1361)
* Friedrich II von Graben († before 1463)
* Ulrich III von Graben
Ulrich III von Graben († 16 February 1486) was a member of the Austrian nobility and an important member of the court of emperor Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III of Austria. He was Lord of Schloss Kornberg, Kornberg, the Lordship ...
(† 1486)
* Wolfgang von Graben
Wolfgang von Graben, also ''Wolfgang de Groben (de Gröben)'' and ''Wolfgang Grabenski'' (1465 – 11 December 1521) was born in Kornberg castle, Styria and a member of the Austrian nobility. He held the titles as a Lord of Graben, Kornb ...
(1465-1521)
* Andrä von Graben († 1556)
Line Grabner zu Rosenburg
The Grabner zu Rosenburg
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came from Styria in Graz and belonged to the same tribe as the Kornberger Graben. They had extensive property with the Rosenburg and Pottenbrunn as well as in Moravia and was one of the advocates of Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
during the Reformation in Lower Austria. In the 16th century the Grabner Rosenburg made a center of the Austrian Reformation
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history. During the 16th and early 17th centuries, the Grabner were among the richest and most respected families in Austria, and one of the country's dominant Protestant noble families.
= Members
=
* Sebastian I Grabner zu Rosenburg
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( † 1535), leading Protestant
* Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg (1528–1583), leading protestant
* Sebastian II Grabner zu Rosenburg, leading Protestant
Sommeregger line
The Sommeregger line which came from the Kornberg line, was the most important family at the court of the Meinhardins of Gorizia in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. During the later Middle Ages, the success of that family arose from the steady accumulation of land, and loyalty to the Counts of Görz and later to the Habsburg
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Emperor. The line resided in Lienz
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, East Tyrol and Carinthia, and became "the most prominent of the family". Family members held the noble titles as the Burgraves
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of Sommeregg, Heinfels
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and Lienz
Lienz (; Southern Bavarian: ''Lianz'') is a Town privileges, medieval town in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol. It is the administrative centre of the Lienz (district), Lienz district, which covers all of East Tyrol. The municipality a ...
. After the death of Leonhard of Gorizia
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Family
Leonhard was born at Bruck Castle in Lienz, the comital residenc ...
in 1500, they became his successors as stadtholders of Lienz
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and East Tyrol
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. The Lienzer line died out in the year 1534, and the ''zum Stein'' in 1664.
They were linked by marriage with the Lords of Auersperg, Saurau and Breuner.
= Members
=
* Andreas von Graben
Andreas von Graben zu Sommeregg (15th century – 1463) was a Carinthian knight and nobleman residing at Sommeregg Castle. He served as a burgrave and castellan governor in the Ortenburg estates, held by the Counts of Celje until 1456.
Life Fam ...
(early 15th century-1463)
* Cosmas von Graben (15th century)
* Virgil von Graben
Virgil von Graben (1430/1440 — 1507) was an Austrian noble, politician and diplomat. He was one of the most important noblemen and officials in the County of Gorizia and in the Habsburg Empire of Frederick III. and Maximilian I.
Introduction ...
(1430/1440-1507)
* Rosina von Graben von Rain
Rosina von Graben von Rain (died 1534), also called Rosina von Rain, was an Austrian noble woman, a member of the Graben von Stein family and heiress of the burgraviate of Sommeregg Castle in Carinthia.
Biography Family Von Graben
Rosina's f ...
(15th century-1534)
Line at Stein
The line at Stein came from Carinthia and East Tyrol and sprang out of the Sommeregger line. The family Held the title Lord of Stein.
* Lukas von Graben zum Stein (15th-1550)
Tyrolian line
The Tyrolian line came from Carinthia and East Tyrol and sprang out of the line Graben zum Stein.
* Otto von Graben zum Stein
Otto is a masculine German given name and a Otto (surname), surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name ...
, was named "Graf zum Stein" (1690–1756)
Feudal
Burgraviates
* Burgrave of Lienz
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Heinfels
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* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Hohenwang
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Sommeregg
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Lengberg
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Saldenhofen
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Gleichenberg
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Riegersburg
Riegersburg is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Riegersburg Castle
Riegersburg Castle is a medieval castle situated on a dormant volcano above the town of Riegersburg in the Austrian state o ...
* Burgrave and Lord of the manor Landskron
High Lordships
* High Lordship and Castle of Straß
* High Lordship of Marburg an der Drau and Castle of Obermarburg
Lordships
* Lordship and Castle of Kornberg
* Lordship and Castle of Rosenburg
Rosenburg is a castle in the municipality Rosenburg-Mold, Lower Austria, Austria. Rosenburg is on a cliff above the valley of the River Kamp at an elevation of above sea level. It is one of Austria's most visited Renaissance castles. It is sit ...
* Lordship and Castle of Pottenbrunn
* Lordship and Castle of Zagging
Lord of the manor
* Lord of the manor Graben near Rudolfswerth (Novo Mesto
Novo Mesto (; sl, Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered t ...
)
* Lord of the manor Schloss Alt-Grabenhofen in the north of Graz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...
* Lord of the manor Stein
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* Stein, a neighbourhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Austr ...
* Lord of the manor Herbstenburg
* Lord of the manor Weidenburg
* Lord of the manor Eppenstein
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Castles, residences
* Ansitz Graben at Lienz
* Burg Bruck
Burg Bruck is a medieval castle in Lienz in Tyrol, Austria. Burg Bruck is above sea level.
It was completed in 1278 as the residence of the Meinhardiner Counts of Görz. In 1490 the chapel was decorated with frescoes by Simon von Taisten.Chizzal ...
at Lienz
See also
* Von Graben family tree
Notes
External links
Von Graben Forschung (german)
Familienverband Gräff-Graeff e. V. (german, english)
Das Land Tirol: mit einem Anhange: Vorarlberg: ein Handbuch für Reisende. Von Beda Weber (de)
Geschichte von Sankt Johann am Graben - Schloss Graben (de)
Burg Hohenwang (de)
Burg Sommeregg (de)
Burg Heinfels (de)
Schloss Kornberg (de)
Schloss Straß in Steiermark (de)
Ansitz Herbstenburg (de)
Austro Archiv (Beiträge zur Familiengeschichte Tirols), ''Graben von Stein'' (de)
* Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva (1948): "Brixen - Reichsfürstentum und Hofstaat".
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