[3] Besides this Manndorff other members of long-established Carinthian nobility, namely Silberberg, Gurniz and Perneck—who were on a pilgrimage in the Holy land with the Wicard of Karlsperg--, were also witnesses to the deed.

In a legend—written down in the castle of Manndorf in the year of 1688 by Freiherr Georg Siegmund, Baron von und zu Manndorff—titled "Manndorferischem Stamen Paumb" (loosely translated from German "Family Tree of the Manndorff's"), the Duke of Württemberg in 1118 acquainted a big and wild man, who the Prince married to a tall woman.

The Prince then upraised the Manndorffs to nobility, and in the shield (referring to the coat of arms), gave them a naked, wild brave man including 3 spears.

The Manndorffs received the status of "Reichs- und erbländisch-österreichische Freiherrenstand" (Free lords of the realm and inherited Austrian lands) from Emperor Ferdinand III.

[4] Around the year 1500 he remodeled the estate Edling at Kotschach in the upper Gail Valley in Carinthia to a castle which he called "Manndorf".