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Albrecht II 'der Minnesänger, Graf von Hohenberg, was born about 1235, the son of Burchard V, Graf von Hohenberg, and Mechtild von Tübingen. His ancestors were the counts of Zollern-Hohenberg in Swabia.
Albrecht and his first wife Gräfin Margareta von Fürstenberg, daughter of Heinrich, Graf von Freiburg, Graf von Fürstenberg, and Agnes von Truhendingen, had three daughters who would have progeny. Margareta died in 1296 and was buried in the abbey church of Kirchberg bei Haigerloch. With his first wife Margareta or his second wife Gräfin Ursula von Oettingen, believed to be a daughter of Ludwig III, Graf von Oettingen, he had a son Rudolf who would have progeny. With his second wife he also had a son Albrecht who became a theologian, and a daughter Adelheid who married Konrad I, Graf von Schaunberg.
Albrecht was a supporter of his brother-in-law, King Rudolf I von Habsburg, married to his older sister Gertrud. Albrecht benefited from the rise of the Habsburgs; he was a close adviser to the king and accompanied him on several campaigns. Rudolf sent Albrecht as bailiff in the newly created imperial bailiwick of Lower Swabia to recover imperial authority. However Rudolf's plan to re-establish the duchy of Swabia and win it for the Habsburgs was not successful. After Rudolf's death Albrecht supported his son Albrecht, duke of Austria, the emperor-elect.
About 1280 Albrecht founded the town of Rotenburg (now Rottenburg am Neckar) near an existing castle, as a new administrative centre for his county; a more central administration was necessary because of the constant attempts by the Hohenberg family to expand into the Neckar Valley. In 1290 Albrecht is documented as staying at the court of Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia and Poland.
Albrecht was killed on 17 April 1298 at the Battle of Kreuzwiesen near the castle of Leinstetten, against Otto III, Herzog von Bayern, king of Hungary. He was buried with his first wife in the abbey church of Kirchberg bei Haigerloch.
Albrecht is also well known as a minstrel (Minnesänger). The image of him on page 42 of the _Codex Manesse_ under the name of Graf Albrecht von Haigerloch, a knight in a battle, presumably shows the battle in which he fell. The back of the page shows the only two stanzas attributed to Albrecht. His verses form a stanza that, by the length of lines and the argumentative treatment of the subject (open and secret love), is closely associated with lyric poetry.
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Abt 1235 - 1298 (~ 63 years)
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