HOHENSTAUFFEN, Frederick Von Buren

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• Name	HOHENSTAUFFEN, Frederick Von Buren
  Birth	1015	Rothenburg, Saxony, Prussia, Germany
  Gender	Male
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  Death	1094	Hohenstaufen, Württemberg, Germany
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  Father	BUREN, Frederick Herman de ,   b. Abt 989, Alsatian, France Alsatian, France
  Mother	TURIN, Adelaid ,   b. 991, France France
  Family ID	F23489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HOHENLOHE, Hildegard Von ,   b. 1017, Swabia, Bayern, Germany Swabia, Bayern, Germanyd. 1095, Schlettstadt, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France (Age 78 years)
  Children	2 sons and 1 daughter
  + 1. HOHENSTAUFFEN, Duke Frederick Von I ,   b. Abt 1050, Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany Schwaben, Bavaria, Germanyd. 6 Apr 1105, Burcht Hohenstaufen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland (Age 55 years)   2. BUREN OTTO, Count Ludwig Von ,   b. 1055, Germany Germanyd. 1105 (Age 50 years)   3. HOHENSTAUFFEN, Adelheit ,   b. 1060, Hohenstaufen, Württemberg, Germany Hohenstaufen, Württemberg, Germanyd. Aft 1095, Hohenstaufen, Württemberg, Germany (Age > 36 years)
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  Ephraim Blood Line. Frederick von Buren or Hohenstauffen built the castle and founded the town of Hohenstaufen, and from him descended the Hohenstaufen dynasty. A glance from this pinnacle seems to invite to the coveting eye the acquisitionand extension of the nobility. The House of Hohenstaufen has since exalted itself over all tribes and principalities, until after a period of splendor and glory it was suddenly seized by a dreadful calamity and hurled into the darkest night of oblivion, leaving hardly any traces behind, so that only the true attachment of the historian can endeavor to bring about a gleam of resurrection. At the time of the prosperity of the House of Hohenstaufen their ancestry was traced back to the ancient Emperor of France, as far back as the reign of Charlemagne. A close inquiry, however, throws some doubt on the legend. The Hohenstaufen Town of Goppingen - At Easter 1079, on 24 March, the Salian Emperor Henry IV invested his faithful liege Frederick of Buren, later of Hohenstaufen, with a fief, the duchy of Allemannia (Swabia), at a royal celebration in Regensburg. 75 years later in 1154 Frederick I (Barbarossa), the first emperor and king of that Swabian-Staufen lineage drew up the document concerning the nearby monastery of Adelberg in which Goppingen was officially mentioned for the first time. This happened on the occasion of one of his visits to the homeland of his ancestors at the foot of the mountain and the fortress of Hohenstaufen in Goppingen. It was in memory of these two historic events concerning the town of Goppingen that its former mayor, Dr. Herbert Konig, had invited, on the occasion of this double jubilee "900 years Duchy of Swabia- 825 years first official reference to Goppingen," to a celebration in the Collegiate Church of Goppingen-Faurndau, exactly on the eve of the historical event, on 23 Mar 1979. On this cold and still frosty spring evening many guests from near and far entered the foyer with its ribbed vaulted ceiling influenced by French style and then into the late Romanesque church. Passing the early Gothic chalice-shaped columns it is, as it were, like the first silent entry into history.The formerly whitish-yellow, now grey and weather-beaten sandstone square blocks of the church walls--quarried not far away from here on the other side of Holzhausen -- express just as much the powerful strength of faith as it does the presence of history. History, where does it begin? In the notion of rather vague beginnings which geologists attempt to prove true when they inform us that the caves on the Swabian Alb gave shelter to primitive man during the ice-age or with the hints which the finds and excavations of the archeologists offer? Deep is the well of the past and unfathomable, and we have to go back ten to twelve thousand years in order to discover the first people in the region of Goppingen who settled here in prehistoric times. The settlement of the Celts lies so far back in the mists of obscurity. They had already lived for five hundred years in the land when the year 260 A.D. became the foundation-stone for the historical development of the settlement area of Goppingen. In that year the Alemannians broke through the Roman border, the Limes, and conquered the area which the Romans had occupied for 150 years, a region stretching from the heights of the Alb up and past the valleyof the Rems. "Alamannen" which means more or less "all men" was a joining together of several tribes from "Sueben," which had settled to the east of the River Elbe and which had gone on the move around 200 A.D. either because of over-population, lack of food or for reasons of war. The settlement of the Alemannians in the conquered regions had already begun during the time that this land was being taken by force. The Roman settlers had probably left these regions earlier and only a remainder of the original Celtic inhabitants were living there. Very little is known about the settlement customs and habits of the Alemannians or of their social structure. After the conquest of the Limes they were at first rather unsettled. Only in the course of the 4th century did they finally come to dividing up the conquered Roman border lands. In independant warlike groups they conquered the land, whereby the chief of the tribe gave the respective settlement his name. Those places, the names of which end with the syllable "-ingen," such as Goppingen, are at all events the original settlements of the Alemannians. It is most probable that a certain Geppo, who claimed the most favourable settling-place in the Fils valley for himself and his kin and also gave this settlement as well as the whole area his name, descended from the leading ranks of the nobility. The culture of the occident, western thought and behavior, have been influenced by Christianity. In the Roman Empire, Christianity had been acknowledged in 313 A.D. by the Edict of Milan as a religion with equal rights. In the year 391 it then became the state religion. The Alemannians had settled as heathens in this country but their areas of settlement were surrounded by tribes which had converted to Christianity in the 4th century so that in the end, Christianity was looked on as a higher level of culture. No less a person than the Franconian Merowing King Chlodwig had recognized this and had had himself baptized. Thus towards the end of the 6th century the way for Christian mission was well prepared even if it lay in the nature of the Franconian state, which had had sovereignity over the Alemannian tribes since about the year 500, to exert political pressure on the leaders of the Alemannians. The Franconian kings considered themselves as guardians of the Christian faith, the Church however as a further support to their power. The conversion to Christianity of our forefathers lay in the hands of the noble vassals. Church services were first held where the nobility resided; they were the places where heathen worship was previously practised. In these places the churches for all the noble's retainers were built on his own land and property which often included several settlements. If Goppingen was the dwelling-place of a certain noble, then the original church would be built there, such as the first small Oberhofen chapel which was founded at the turn of the 7th century. The Oberhofen Church is considered "the earliest church of the Fils region." It was not without a deeper significance that this original humble wooden church was dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, who had been a fervent soldier, monk, minister and missionary. In the Middle Ages, however, the church was renamed Our Lady's Church (Marienkirche) but the original local name "beiden obeen Hofen" prevailed against all other possiblenames. In the 11th century there was a bitter struggle between the German Empire and the Pope. In January 1077 King Henry IV stood for three days barefooted in the cold in front of the walls of Canossa, a fortress on the north side of the Apennines. It was not repentance because of religious guilt but diplomatic considerations which drove him in humiliation, without royal robes and without any outward sign of rank or title before Pope Gregory VII, who, as spiritual leader on earth, had himself become more worldly. "The Pope's feet alone must be kissed by all princes. He is able to dethrone the Emperor. The Pope alone has the Royal Insignia at his disposal." Among the few who accompanied King Henry IV, the Salian, for protection was Frederick of Buren, to whom Henry IV had given the Duchy of Alemannia in 1079 at Easter in Regensburg; denique pascha Ratisponae Quomodocumque egit, ducatum Alemanniae...Bishop Otto of Freising, a cousin of Emperor Frederick I, Barbarossa's wrote down in his "Gesta Friderici," which came into existence in the years 1156 to 1158; "At this time a count with the name of Frederick, who descended from the most distinguished counts of Swabia had founded a settlement in the fortress of Staufen...The aforementioned Frederick became Duke of Swabia and also the king's son-in-law." Frederick of Buren was about thirty years old when Henry IV placed him at the head of the Duchy of Swabia and betrothed him to his daughter Agnes, who was no more than seven years old at the time. This event marked the beginning of the rise of the Staufen dynasty, which determined the course of Europe's history for nearly two centuries. Up to the end of the 11th century the Family of the Staufen lineage called themselves "von Buren" after their first settlement in Beuren (Waschenbeuren), which can be traced back in records. The place of their origin is still unknown to us. It is almost certain that they resided in the "Ries" after the year 1000 A.D. and through marriage came into the Fils and Rems region. There they probably built their first fortress above Lorch. From there it was no great distance to the Wascherburg in Waschenbeuren and finally to the Hohenstaufen itself. Even when Goppingen, like most of the southern German towns, does not possess any document about the founding of the town, it is still certain that the early Staufen family were its founders, and not only because the founding of towns was an important part of Staufen politics. It must have been important to them to fortify the market town of Goppingen, which lay at the foot of the ducal fortress built between 1070 and 1080, in order to protect the inhabitants. After acquiring the right to hold a market and to set up a court of law, the fortification of the town was a further condition for officially becoming a medieval German town. The opinions as to the possible year of foundation vary in the ancient documents. The dates like between 1142 and 1246. The year 1246 is too late as Emperor Frederick I, known as Barbarossa, had already drawn up the document concerning the Monastery of Lorch before he set off to Italy with his armies which he had gathered together on the Lechfeld. An "advocatus de Geppingen," a royal baliff, was also officially mentioned in 1206. Such a man would not be sent to a small village nor would a royal court be set up in an unimportant market-town. There is hardly any doubt that Duke Frederick II of Swabia, named "Frederick the One-Eyes," was the founder of the town of Goppingen and that the time of foundation lay between the years 1125 and 1130. In the "Chronicle of the Barons of Hohenstauffen," which did not come into existence until later, the reference is to be found; "Frederick the One-eyed built Gmund in 1110. This same Frederick and his father built the town of Goppingen." Starting from Goppingen one can make one of the most beautiful journeys through both the countryside and the history of the Staufen dynasty in Baden-Wuttemberg. The almost 90-mile-long "Staufen Route" touches on nearly all the important places which are linked with the history, art, culture and politics of the Staufen dynasty in their immediate homeland: The Hohenstaufen: Ludwig Uhland called it the most beautiful of all Swabian mountains. Panorama of the town of Goppingen with the "Three Emperor-Mountains'" Hohenstaufen, Hohenrechberg and Stuifen. In the Alemannic dialect "Stauf" means a measure of liquid such as a tankard; the upside-down footless drinking mug is meant, the shape of which gave the mountain its name. Tour Town Museum "Storchen" Wuhlestrabe 36 Open Wed., Sat., Sun. and Holidays from 10-12 and 14-17 o'clock. and/or Folklore Museum "Heimatmuseum" ----- The town's Natural History Museum in Gopingen-Jebenhausen is based on two natural history collections which have been housed here since 1970. During the nineteen-twenties the town acquired a large part of the fossil collection belonging to the Vicar Dr. Theodor Engel, who studied and collected the flora and fauna fossils of the Swabian Jura together with the Tubingen geologist F. A. Wuenstedt. Thus several thousand fossils from all layers of the Swabian Jura have become objects worth seeing for both collectors and other interested people. The same can be said for a valuable and attractively presented collection of birds besides a small collection of exhibits found in the area which date from prehistoric and early historic times. Last but not least the "genius loci" i.e. the history of the Bathouse built in 1610 and its traditions as well as the history of the village of Jeben hausen should not be forgotten either. The latter, which was considerably characterized by a Jewish settlement in the 19th century, had been included in the Liebenstein estate in 1777. Natural History Museum Boller Strasse 102, Goppingen-Jebenhausen Opening times: Mid-April-beginning of November. Wed., Sat., Sun. and holidays from 10-12 and 14-17 o'clock ------ The consciousness of being one of the towns founded by the Staufen dukes, which has always been present in Goppingen and gained strength again since the 1950s, together with the uniting of the village of Hohenstaufen with Goppingen in 1971 led, in the "Staufen Year" 1977, to the establishing of a room in which Staufen history is documented at the foot of the historic "Kaiserberg." This room is to fulfil and realize three aims. Firstly it records the history of the mountain, the ancestral seat of the Staufen dynasty, and the structure of the fortress in the progress of time. In alternating exhibitions it informs at the same time about themes from history, art and culture of Staufen times. Lastly the room contains several excellent copies of world-famous sculptures belonging to that epoch which express the stimulating strength of the Staufen dynasty in many fields of art and their respective regional characteristics. Room where Staufen history is documented Kaiserbergsteige 22, Goppingen-Hohenstaufen - Opening times: Mid-March-Mid-November daily from 10-12 o'clock and 14-17 o'clock admission free