Ulrich II. von Graben
Ulrich II von Graben (* before 1300 Schloss Alt - grave Mayrhofen, † by 1361 Schloss Kornberg ), Viscount of Hohenwang, DC Mountain and Rothfels and Mr. Kornberg and digging, was a nobleman, which the noble free generation of them came from trench of stone. The men sprang from the ditch Gorizia Meinhardi formers of Meinhardiner Dynasty.
Biography
Ulrich von Graben was the son of Gleichenberger Castle Count Ulrich I of trench from which he probably inherited this office, and Gertrud († both ca 1325 ). Ulrichs first written mention dates from 1300, when he I founded together with his brothers Veit, Otto I and Friedrich von Graben one years legacy to the Stift Rein. In 1314 he came into possession of the village village in Wetzel Kornberg. In 1324 he sealed along with his brother Otto in the barter of certificate of her nephew, the Lords of Stubenberg. In 1325 he donated fifty marks of silver to the Stift Rein. Thereupon the abbot of the monastery clean committed against the brothers ditch to read for their deceased father in the same year Ulrich an annual memorial mass.
Ulrich married in 1330 Barbara, a daughter of Johann von Auersperg and Cimburgis Schauerpeck, and later a noblewoman named Gertraud. ( † before 1375 ). About the descendants of Ulrich II is not known. His legacy seems to have been his brother Frederick.
Together with his brothers Otto and Frederick I, he came into possession of the reign of the castle and Kornberg Kornberg, a princely fief, which they bought from Friedrich Berger Choir in 1328. Kornberg became the headquarters of the ditch, and its name to the Styrian line, the grain Berger line. In addition, the brothers bought ditch the villages Edelsbach and Krottendorf and the estate to Wetzel village. The descendants of his brother Frederick had dominion and Kornberg up in the year 1543, when this ( Styrian ) branch of the family with Andra Knight of digging in the male line ran dry.
In the year 1330, a Ulrich von Graben - this might not act to Ulrich II von Graben - certified as a master of the small ditch in good Würmla. His coat of arms seal is mentioned as following: An obliquely oriented lying shovel without a handle, two buffalo horns on the helmet. This, its crest, a combination of Carniolian Stsammwappens with the oblique beams and the buffalo horns and the Styrian coat of arms with the shovel dar.
Ulrich von Graben was further in 1343 (probably until 1358 ) as a princely freisischer Burggraf Rothfels (also Wel (t ) z called ), and in 1345 as wallseeischer administrator ( Burggraf ) called on DC Mountain.
In 1354 pledged Duke Albrecht Castles and Power Hohenwang [ the administrative center of the territory of present-day North Styrian municipality Langenwang ] to Ulrich von Graben, which Burggraf called out of Hohenwang. After his death in 1361 the area again princely viscount was handed over to the administration.