Limbuš and the Lords of Limbuš between the twelfth and fourteenth century
Keywords:
Lords of Limbuš, Lords of Maribor, Slovenian Styria, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Count Bernhard von Spanheim, Ottokar III of Styria, Ottokar II of Bohemia, King Bela IV, ministerialesAbstract
The article analyses the sources and literature on the beginnings of the seigniory, the family, and the castle of Limbuš. It first discusses the (not entirely clear) origin of the Lords of Limbuš and then describes their political activities. Regarding the family’s origin itself, several contradictory conclusions have been made in the past. The author of the article scrutinizes them and presents his own conclusions, and then depicts the political and military activities of various members of the Limbuš family and their family relations with other families of the then Duchy of Styria.
