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Agnes of Kuenring

It is known that she bore the King more children, but the exact number is contradictory in sources; it is believed that they had three daughters: Agnes (married Bavor III, Lord of Strakonicz), Elisabeth (married Vikard, Lord of Polna and Burgrave of Brünn) and one unknown daughter (wife of Vok, Lord of Kravař), and another son, Jesek (d. 26 August 1296) (later Priest at Wysehrad).

Battle of Vimory

The Battle of Vimory occurred on 26 October 1587 between the French royal (Catholic) forces of King Henry III of France commanded by Henry of Guise and German and Swiss mercenaires commanded by Fabien I, Burgrave of Dohna and William-Robert de la Marck, Duke of Bouillon who were hired to assist Henry of Navarre's Huguenot forces during the eighth and final war (1585-1598) of the French Wars of Religion.

Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode

# Friederike (1776–1858), married in 1806 Henry Louis, Burgrave and Count of Dohna-Schlodien

Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Katharina (b 1534; d 10 May 1559) m (1557) William of Rosenberg, Senior Burgrave (Oberburggraf) of Bohemia (1535–1592)

Eric I, Duke of Schleswig

Eric (Longbone), from 1295 Lord of Langeland (1272–1310), married Sophia Burghardsdatter (died 1325), daughter of Queen dowager Jutta of Denmark and Count Burchard VIII of Querfurt-Rosenburg, Burgrave of Magdeburg

Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg

Frederick V of Nuremberg (before 3 March 1333 – 21 January 1398) was a Burgrave (Burggraf) of Nuremberg, of the House of Hohenzollern.

From the death of his father in 1357, Frederick bore the title of Burgrave and so was responsible for the protection of the strategically significant imperial castle of Nuremberg.

Hadmar I of Kuenring

He was the son of Nizzo (or Nizo) of Krems-Gars, who was burgrave on the Babenberg castles of Krems and Gars.

Henry V, Burgrave of Plauen

Henry V of Plauen (9 October 1533, Andělská Hora – 24 December 1568, Hof; buried in the Mountain Church in Schleiz) was Burgrave of Meissen and Lord of Plauen and Voigtsberg.

Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen

Henry VI of Plauen (29 December 1536, Meissen – 22 January 1572 in Schleiz) was Burgrave of Meissen, Lord of Plauen and Lord of Schleiz and Lobenstein.

Margaret of Bohemia

Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg, daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elizabeth of Pomerania, married John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg

Ministerialis

In Salzburg, Austria a Timo appears in 1125/47 in the traditionsbuch (book of traditions) as a miles (knight) of the archiepiscopal ministerialage who functioned as burgrave and also as a merchant.

Poeke Castle

Later, Charles Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme d'Hailly, Burgrave of Nieuwpoort, Oombergen, Sint-Lievens-Esse and Schoonbergen, Baron of Poeke and lord of Neuville, Kanegem and Velaine (1716–1792), carried out significant work on the castle between 1743 and 1752.

Savoia Castle

The founder, and maybe the builder too, was probably Domaslav (Domaslaus de Squorz) around 1279, an important courtier and landed official, the butler of Queen Kunigunda of Slavonia(1262) and her food taster (1263–1269, 1279), Lord High Treasurer (1267–1278) and one of the ten Burgraves of Prague Castle.

Schottenkirche, Vienna

The famous Scottish Monastery of St. Jacob at Ratisbon was built around 1090 by Burgrave Otto of Ratisbon in Ratisbon became the mother-house of a series of other Scots Monasteries, among which the Our Blessed Lady at Vienna built in 1158.

Seventeen Provinces

#the County of Flanders, including the burgraviates of Lille, Douai, Orchies, the Lordship of Tournai and the Tournaisis

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Also, Sigismund granted control of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (which he had received back after Jobst's death) to Frederick I of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg (1415).


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