Münch (family lineage)

[1] From about the end of the fourteenth century members of the family took no further part in the political life of the city.

[2] Until the mid-fourteenth century, members of the Landskron branch appear in political positions in the government of Basel, and three of them became Bürgermeister of the city; from that time on they are seen more often as functionaries of the Habsburg court.

[2] Hartung Münch von Landskron was bishop of Basel from 1325 to 1328, and Konrad occupied the same seat from 1393 to 1395.

[3] The Münch von Münchenstein were active in the politics of Basel until about the end of the fourteenth century, but not thereafter.

[4] In the fifteenth century the family ran into financial trouble: Konrad VIII mortgaged Burg Münchenstein in 1470, and in 1526 the lordship of Löwenberg was sold to the Abbey of Lucelle.

Arms of Münch von Landskron in the Wappenbuch of Nikolaus Bertschi, Augsburg 1515
The ruins of Burg Münchenstein