The House of Frohburg (also Froburg) was a noble family in medieval Switzerland, with possessions in what is now the canton of Solothurn. They originate in the Wigger basin, near Zofingen. In the 10th century, they built Frohburg Castle on a hill near Trimbach.
They had the title of counts from the later 11th century. They ruled the lands between Olten and Solothurn, and took parts of Aargau and Sisgau as fief from the bishop of Basel.
They reached the peak of their power in the later 12th and early 13th century, building a number of castles, and founding towns such as Aarburg, Liestal, Olten (then a fortified river crossing), Waldenburg, Wiedlisbach and Zofingen. They also founded Schöntal Abbey near Waldenburg.
The House of Frohburg was divided into three branches, Neu-Homberg, Waldenburg and Zofingen, in c. 1250.
The Zofingen branch was extinct in 1307, followed by the Neo-Homberg one in 1325. The Waldenburg branch survived for another 40 years but declined in influence, being forced to sell most of its possessions, most of them to the ascending House of Habsburg.
The last count of Frohburg was Hermann VI (d. 1367 as abbot of St. Urban's Abbey).
The HouseofFrohburg (also Froburg) was a noble family in medieval Switzerland, with possessions in what is now the canton of Solothurn. They originate...
the HouseofFrohburg founded a canons monastery. The town was founded in 1201 by the counts ofFrohburg. 1231 was the first written mention of Zofingen...
who were members of the Holy Roman Empire. Other cantons had rulers from the Houseof Savoy, or from the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Burgundy. This...
a Frohburg lineage; nevertheless, his objections have been disproved. About 1253/4, Gertrude married Rudolf (1218–1291), son of Count Albert IV of Habsburg...
14 members of the family were buried in the Toggenburg vault in the church of the Rüti Abbey. The houseof Toggenburg used two coats of arms. The older...
The building was mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century, in the possession of the Counts ofFrohburg. The Vogtei (a bailiff or vogt was an overlord...
Strasbourg workshop, a sign of the esteem in which such antiquities were then held. According to Knoepfli, Louis III or Louis IV ofFrohburg called as another owner...
Frohburg, Grünenberg, Greifenstein, Homberg, Kyburg, Landenberg, Rapperswil, Toggenburg, Zähringen etc.) and the development of the great powers of the...
property of the Grafen von Frohburg family. From this castle the Bailiwick of Aarburg was governed, what is today the western part of the county of Zofingen...
Theater Freiberg und Döbeln (in German) The case of Grete Beier is mentioned in Guntram Vespers' novel Frohburg (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2015). (in German)...
the Counts ofFrohburg, the Barons of Regensberg and the Barons of Klingen. Additionally, there were numerous minor local noble families, of which the...
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Haus der Heimat Frohburg, Landkreis Leipzig Museum in Castle Frohburg Geising, Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge...
heritage. In the mid 13th century Count Ludwig the Elder von Frohburg built the fortified village of Wiedlisbach to collect tolls and host markets along the...
ofFrohburg until 1299, when they went to the Habsburgs. From the Bernese conquest of the Aargau in 1415, until 1798, the rights were held by city of...
son of Hermann IV ofFrohburg), and his mother was Elisabeth von Rapperswil (d. 1309), the heiress of Rudolf, Count of Rapperswil. At the death of her...
Herschaft of the Counts ofFrohburg from the Middle Ages until 1299, when they came under Habsburg authority. Following the Bernese conquest of the Aargau...
brother) is from 1240. In 1249, he married Sophia von Frohburg. They had eight children, but all of their three sons died early. After his father's death...
possession of the counts ofFrohburg in the 13th century, passing to Kyburg in 1377 and to Habsburg in 1384. Olten passed under the administration of Basel...
was sold in 1239 to the Bishop of Basel Lüthold von Rötteln. In 1245 the Frohburg family withdrew their claims on the land, which left the Bishop with an...
Frohburg, the Lords of Rapperswil, and the Habsburgs. During the 10th century, Einsiedeln Abbey became more and more powerful. The expanding town of Schwyz...
Switzerland. In the mid-13th century, Count Ludwig the Elder von Frohburg built the fortified village of Wiedlisbach to collect tolls and host markets along the...
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