County of Bregenz

The county Bregenz is medieval merely mentioned ( under that name ) from 1043 to 1160. It was the property of Udalrichinger that took place in Bregenz not only their headquarters, but also led according to their names; they are to their Ahn and Leitnamen also called Ulriche. Previously, an ancestor of the Counts of Bregenz in Bregenz was known as Count in the first half of the 10th century. After 1160, there are the Counts of Montfort- Bregenz as a side branch of the House of Montfort, then is the title of Count of Bregenz title of the Habsburgs, and the County of Bregenz is part of Further Austria. Its remains are later incorporates the course of the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, the County of Tyrol after the reorganization of the Empire of Austria to the Vorarlberg is a part of the country (1861 as "Country" alone). There is the titular county ( the Empire counties were yes 1806 lapsed ) until the disintegration of Austria-Hungary in 1918.

Counts of Bregenz ( Ulriche, 1043-1160 )

Count in and of Bregenz were:

  • Ulrich VI. , † 950/957, Count in Bregenz, Count in Raetia
  • Ulrich IX. , † before 1079, probably a great-grandson of Ulrich VI. , Count of Bregenz, Count of Argengau and Nibelgau
  • Ulrich X., † 1097, Count of Bregenz; ∞ Bertha Countess of Kellmünz, † after 1128, daughter of anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden
  • Rudolf, † 1160, Count of Bregenz, in Rhaetia Count, Count of Chur; ∞ I Irmgard von Calw, daughter of Adalbert II, Count of Calw; ∞ Wulfhild II of Bavaria, † after 1156, daughter of Henry the Black Duke of Bavaria ( Guelph )

Counts of Montfort- Bregenz ( 1160-1451 or 1543)

The last Count of Bregenz inherited his property on the counts of Pfullendorf and the Counts of Tübingen to the Counts of Montfort.

Under montfortischer rule existed from 1170 as part of the line of the Counts of Montfort- Bregenz, who ruled over the territory of the former County of Bregenz. The Montfort had developed in the previous generation as a by- line of the Count Palatine of Tübingen. Montfort- Bregenz went out already in 1338 again, and as a result formed from the third house (the first was Montfort- Feldkirch ) of Montfort, the Montfort- Tettnang, from 1354 the line Montfort- Tettnang - Bregenz, which 1379 elderly in and the younger domination shared. This house brought Hugo XII. ( VIII of Bregenz, 1357-1423 ), minstrels and statesman, an important European representatives forth.

Elisabeth von Hochberg ( Hachberg ), daughter and heiress of William VII († 1422 ), sold in 1451, the older rule, part of the territory, to the Habsburgs. The younger reign from 1514 called Tettnang - Bregenz Bregenz, as with the Tettnang-Bregenz-Pfannberg/Beckach a Styrian line with the possessions which the minstrel Hugo had acquired in the service of Leopold IV revealed. 1523 sold the Bregenz Montfort, all of whom served in the stranger, to the other part of the Bregenz county. However, the Bregenz House joined in the Styrian line in 1574 and the legacy of Tettnang, and went out only in 1780, with the last of the von Montfort.

Habsburg (from 1451 or 1543)

Duke Siegmund, Regent of Tyrol bought on July 12, 1451 Elisabeth half the city and rule Bregenz, the courts Hofsteig, Lingenau and Alberschwende, and the inhabitants of these half were from now on as personally free. The other half bought Ferdinand I on 5 September in 1523 by Hugo.

The Habsburgs retained the title of Count of Bregenz and 1918, as such it is also found in the large title of Emperor of Austria, as well as the blue and silver emblem on the coat of arms of the Habsburgs, the Empire of Austria and the Austrian provinces of Austria-Hungary.

Coat of arms

This coat of arms is a fur coat of arms, as is common in France or England. There the entire sign face of the emblem is in this case covered with fur. It is emblazoned:

  • The two outer fields are ermine into four piles (now Steel Blue )
  • The central beam is Silver with three black box beets ( of this strip come the colors of the city of Bregenz - Black and White, the beets are today but emblazoned as Hermelinschwänzchen ).

Whether it is in fact that of the old Counts of Bregenz in this coat of arms, is now provided by the research in question. It may be an apocryphal, that supposititious or fake coat of arms. The city of Bregenz 1529, this awarded by the new ruler, King Ferdinand, later Emperor Ferdinand I as a coat of arms.

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