!!!Kuenringer, Ministerialengeschlecht

Kuenringer; lived during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century, 
family members were estate officials and ruled territories in Lower 
Austria. Azzo, the founder of the family, came to Austria from Saxony 
or the Rhineland (Trier) in the 11th century; there is evidence that 
the family lived in Kuehnring (Lower Austria) around 1130/1140. Hadmar 
I founded the monastery at  Zwettl in 1137. The family split into two 
lines (Weitra/Duernstein), and settled large parts of the Waldviertel 
north of the River Kamp. As leading estate officials, they reached the 
zenith of their power in the 13th century; led a feud against the 
Babenberg Duke  Friedrich II and considerably influenced the rise of  
Otakar II of Bohemia. Under the Habsburgs, their influence dwindled. 
Became Protestants in the 16th century and died out in 1594. Their 
documents of title are kept at the monastery at Zwettl ("Baerenhaut").

!Literature
K. Brunner, Die K., 1980; Die K., exhibition catalogue, 
Zwettl 1981; NDB.


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