!!!Montfort, Adelsgeschlecht

Montfort, noble family named after their ancestral seat at Goetzis 
(Vorarlberg); founded by Hugo von M. (d. 1235), a son of Hugo von 
Tuebingen (d. 1182), who had founded the town of Feldkirch. In 1258 
the family split into the lines of M.-Feldkirch (until 1390), 
M.-Bregenz (until 1338) and M.-Tettnang-Bregenz (until 1536); a 
younger Tettnang branch died out in 1787. The huge family property 
fell to the  Habsburgs, their red standard became the coat of arms of  
Vorarlberg.

!Literature
Die Montforter, exhibition catalogue, Bregenz and 
Feldkirch 1982; K. H. Burmeister, Die Grafen von M., 1996.


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