Gottfried III of Raabs

Gottfried III. of Raab's († 1160 ) was of about 1146 to about 1160 Viscount of the medieval castle county Nuremberg.

Life

Gottfried III. came from the Earl of Raab, a noble family of precious outdoor whose name the nearby castle in Lower Austria Raab had been borrowed. Gottfried III. was the son and nephew of the first viscount, his father Gottfried II von Raab and his brother Konrad I of Raab. Although these two had the Burggrafenamt already exercised virtually since about 1105, it was Gottfried III. , Which was in 1154 expressly referred to for the first time with the appropriate title burggravius ​​de Norinberg. His successor as Viscount joined his cousin Conrad II to of Raab, with the male line of the Counts of Raab's finally about 1191/1192 went out.