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Count Of Toggenburg
The counts of Toggenburg (''Grafen von Toggenburg'') ruled the Toggenburg (Switzerland), Toggenburg region of today's canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and adjacent areas during the 13th to 15th centuries. A Freiherr, baronial family of Toggenburg is mentioned in the 11th and 12th centuries, but their genealogical connection to the comital family is unclear. They are named for their ancestral seat, now known as ''Alt-Toggenburg'', near Kirchberg, St. Gallen. The castle was built in the 10th or 11th century, and was destroyed in 1085 in a conflict with the Abbot of St. Gallen, later rebuilt and in 1226 given to St. Gallen Abbey by count Diethelm of Toggenburg. The family is attested from the early 13th century, as ''Toccanburg'', later ''Tochimburc''. Diethelm I (possible mention 1176, died 1205 or 1207) was followed by Diethelm II (possible mention 1210, died c. 1230). Either of these was the beneficiary of the inheritance of a number of local noble families (among these Alt-Rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partition (politics)
In international relations, a partition is a division of a previously unified territory into two or more parts. Brendan O'Leary distinguishes partition, a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community, from secession, which takes place within existing recognized State (polity), political units.Brendan O'LearyDEBATING PARTITION: JUSTIFICATIONS AND CRITIQUES For Arie Dubnov and Laura Robson (historian), Laura Robson, partition is the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states. History Dubnov and Robson locate partition in the context of post-World War I peacebuilding and the "new conversations surrounding ethnicity, nationhood, and citizenship" that emerged out of it. The post-war agreements, such as the League of Nations mandate, League of Nations mandate system, promoted "a new political language of ethnic separatism as a central aspect of national self-determination, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alt-Rapperswil
The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil (''Grafen von Rapperwil'' since 1233, before ''Lords'') ruled the Obersee (Zürichsee), upper ''Zürichsee'' and ''Seedamm'' region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Canton (Switzerland), Swiss cantons of canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Canton of Glarus, Glarus, Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Graubünden, Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as ''Vogt (Switzerland), Vogt'' of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family. History Early history In 697 legends mentions a knight called ''Raprecht'' in connection with the later Grynau Castle. The former seat of the ''Vogt'' in Altendorf, Schwyz, Altendorf was first mentioned as "Rahprehteswilare" in a document of emperor Otto II, in which goods of the Einsiedeln abbey were confirmed on 14 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüti Church
Rüti, which comes from the Old High German word , meaning " clearing", is a popular name for towns in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It can refer to the following: *Rüti, Glarus in Glarus *Rüti, Zürich in Zürich *:Rüti Reformed Church, an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Rüti in the Canton of Zürich *:Rüti Monastery, a former Premonstratensian monastery, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland *Rüti bei Büren in Berne *Rüti bei Lyssach in Berne * Rüti bei Riggisberg in Berne *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Hägglingen in Aargau *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Waldkirch SG in St. Gallen *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Affeltrangen in Thurgau *the former municipality of ''Rüti im Prättigau'' ( St. Antönien Rüti), now part of St. Antönien, Grisons The names of the following places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatsarchiv Des Kantons Zürich
Staatsarchiv may refer to the archives An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ... of one of several national or sub-national governments: * Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, the archives of the state of Hesse, situated in Marburg, Germany * Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, the national archives of Austria * Staatsarchiv Bern, the archives of the canton of Bern, Switzerland * Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, the archives of various public bodies in and around the city of Stuttgart, Germany * Staatsarchiv München, the archives of the administration of Upper Bavaria, Germany * Staatsarchiv des Kantons St. Gallen, the archives of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland * Staatsarchiv Zürich, the archives of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüti Reformed Church
Reformierte Kirche Rüti (native German name, literally: Rüti Reformed Church) is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Rüti ZH, Rüti in the Canton of Zürich. It was built between 1214 and 1219 AD as the Romanesque style church of the then Kloster Rüti, Premonstratensian ''Kloster Rüti'', an abbey that was founded in 1206 by the House of Regensberg and suppressed in 1525 as part of the Reformation in Zürich. Location The church is situated in the center of the municipality of Rüti on a small rocky plateau near the Jona River at the site of the former abbey which is called ''Amthof'' respectively ''Klosterhof''. Northwest of the parish church there is the rectory called ''Spitzer-Liegenschaft'' and to the west the ''Amthaus'' building which was rebuilt in 1706 when a fire partially destroyed the church and most of the remaining buildings of the abbey. Architecture In 1214 AD the canons of Premonstratensian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fratricide
Fratricide (; – the assimilated root of 'to kill, cut down') is the act of killing one's own brother. It can either be done directly or via the use of either a hired or an indoctrinated intermediary (an assassin). The victim need not be the perpetrator's biological brother. In a military context, fratricide refers to a service member killing a comrade. The term is often used metaphorically to refer to civil wars. Religion and mythology The Abrahamic religions recognize the biblical account of Cain and Abel as the first fratricidal murder to be committed. Esau swore to kill Jacob after Jacob stole his blessings, and later, Jacob's sons planned to kill Joseph, but instead sold him. Judge Gideon's son, Avimelech, killed his seventy brothers leaving the youngest, Jotham. In the mythology of ancient Rome, the city is founded as the result of a fratricide, with the twins Romulus and Remus quarreling over who has the favour of the gods and over each other's plans to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurmsbach
Wurmsbach Abbey (Kloster Mariazell-Wurmsbach) is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Bollingen, a locality of Rapperswil-Jona, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is located on the north shore of upper Lake Zürich. The house is a part of the Order of Cistercians of the Common Observance (O.Cist.). History Count Rudolf of Rapperswil gave his castle of Wurmsbach together with a considerable area of land in 1259 for the foundation of a religious house and the abbey was established. It was initially a dependency of the Cistercian monks of Abbey of St. Urban in Wettingen. The abbey church was dedicated in 1281. Bollinger Sandstein was used for the construction of the abbey by dedicated quarries. Elisabeth von Rapperswil died probably on 10 April 1309 in the Rapperswil Castle and may have been buried in the ''Wurmsbach'' nunnery (''†. Apr. IV. Idus: Elizabeth die Graffin, Stiffterin. Excerpta ex Necromonast. Wurmspacensis'') on ''Obersee'' lake shore. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberbollingen
Bollingen is a village () within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. Geography The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') between Jona and Schmerikon. Bollingen was part of the former municipality of Jona: On 1 January 2007 the former municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form the new political entity Rapperswil-Jona. History Sandstone from Bollingen may have been used even in the Roman Empire era, but presumably is extracted and processed since 1000 AD. Among others it was used for the Grossmünster and Fraumünster churches in Zürich, as well as for the Einsiedeln and St. Gallen abbeys, or the Zunfthaus zur Meisen that was built in 1757 at the Münsterhof plaza in Zürich. In the European Middle Ages, the two settlements named and are mentioned as part of the later Herrschaft Rapperswil of the Counts of Rapperswil. The earliest document sealed at the Rapperswil Castle was rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüti Abbey
Rüti, which comes from the Old High German word , meaning " clearing", is a popular name for towns in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It can refer to the following: * Rüti, Glarus in Glarus *Rüti, Zürich in Zürich *: Rüti Reformed Church, an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Rüti in the Canton of Zürich *: Rüti Monastery, a former Premonstratensian monastery, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland * Rüti bei Büren in Berne * Rüti bei Lyssach in Berne * Rüti bei Riggisberg in Berne *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Hägglingen in Aargau *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Waldkirch SG in St. Gallen *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Affeltrangen in Thurgau *the former municipality of ''Rüti im Prättigau'' ( St. Antönien Rüti), now part of St. Antönien, Grisons The names of the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubikon Commandry
Bubikon Castle or Bubikon Commandery () is a castle in the municipality of Bubikon of the Swiss Canton of Zürich. The former Commandery, a medieval monastery of the Knights Hospitaller, is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. History Assumably in compensation of claims related to the ''Alt-Rapperswil'' lands and rights, a change of goods occurred between the Counts of Toggenburg and Counts of Rapperswil probably in the early 1190s. To end the disputes about the legacy, the Knights Hospitaller abbey and commandry was given by Diethelm V von Toggenburg and Vogt Rudolf von Rapperswil between 1191 and 1198 AD. Although in concurrency to the neighbouring Rüti Abbey, the commandery's lands and goods grew with donations by local noble families during the 13th and 14th centuries – at the height of their power, the commandry owned land all over the present canton of Zürich. The commandry's inhabitants was granted Burgrecht by the neighbouring town of Rapperswil, later b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Kyburg
The Kyburg family (; ; also Kiburg) was a noble family of ''grafen'' (counts) in the Duchy of Swabia, a cadet line of the counts of Dillingen, who in the late 12th and early 13th centuries ruled the County of Kyburg, corresponding to much of what is now Northeastern Switzerland. The family was one of the four most powerful noble families in the Swiss plateau (beside the House of Habsburg, the House of Zähringen and the House of Savoy) during the 12th century. With the extinction of the Kyburg family's male line in 1264, Rudolph of Habsburg laid claim to the Kyburg lands and annexed them to the Habsburg holdings, establishing the line of "Neu-Kyburg", which was in turn extinct in 1417. History Early history The first line of counts of Kyburg were influential in local politics during the 1020s, but the male line died out in 1078. Kyburg castle, southeast of Winterthur (in the modern canton of Zürich), passed on to the Swabian counts of Dillingen. Through the marriage of Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
