Rosina von Graben von Rain

Rosina von Graben von Rain (died 1534 (?)), also called Rosina von Rain, was an Austrian noble woman, a member of the Graben von Stein family and heiress of the burgraviate of Sommeregg Castle in Carinthia.

Tomb at St. Michael's Church, Lienz

Biography

Rosina's father was the Carinthian noble Ernst von Graben (d. 1513), son of Andreas von Graben (d. 1463), who ruled as burgrave at Sommeregg since 1507. Her ancestors of the House of Graben, a cadet branch of the princely Meinhardiner dynasty, had held large possessions in the Inner Austrian lands of Carinthia and Gorizia (Görz). Andreas had been an official of the Counts of Celje; after their extinction in 1456, his son Ernst had received the Sommeregg estates in Upper Carinthia as a fief from the hands of the Habsburg king Maximilian I. Ernst's brother Virgil von Graben, Rosina's uncle, was a very powerful Austrian noble, Habsburg stattholder in the County of Gorizia and Maximilan's councillor.

Sammeregg, engraving by Johann Weikhard Valvasor, 1680

Rosina was born at her father's residence Sommeregg Castle (near present-day Seeboden) in Carinthia. Upon Ernst's death in 1513, she followed him up as burgravine (a sort of Viscountess) of the Sommeregg estates. She became also Lady of Doberdò within the comital lands of Gorizia.

Rosina was married twice: first to the ministerialis Georg Goldacher, her second husband was Haymeran of Rain, a member of the Bavarian nobility who was elevated to the rank of a Freiherr zu Sommeregg by Emperor Charles V in 1530. The couple sold Doberdò to the Counts of Attems in 1522 and concentrated on consolidating their Carinthian possessions. However, their eldest son Hans Joachim von Rain returned to Bavaria and in 1550 sold the castle and the lordship of Sommeregg to Christoph Khevenhüller, castellan of nearby Ortenburg Castle.

Rosina's and her husband Haymeran's tomb chapel is to be found of at the St Michael's Church in Lienz.

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