Langenstein family

The family may have settled in the valley to begin colonizing the empty forest between the County of Burgundy in the west and the Alamannia territories in the east.

[2] The first time the Langenstein family appears, is in an unconfirmed record from 1148, when they supposedly founded an Augustinian Canons Regular.

[3] The first recorded generation of the Langenstein family consisted of five siblings; Ulrich the knight, the two clergymen Lütold and Werner I. and two sisters Willebirk (Willbirgis) and Adelheid.

Diethelm of Krenkingen, Bishop of Constance, confirmed the donation and that it was accepted by the General Chapter of the Order at Citeaux in 1194.

Anna died seven days after the death of her husband, but not before her and her sons made a large donation to the Abbey of St.

One appears only in the 14th century and features a pacing red lion on a transversely divided blue-white field.

[8] In the Zurich Wappenrolle it is completely different; Argent, an eagle gules charged on its tail with a crown azure.

Hugo was a Middle High German poet and he wrote an extensive poem about the life and martyrdom of Martina of Rome.