Georg Grabner zu Rosenburg und Zagging

Georg Grabner zu Rosenburg und Zagging (* before or around 1510 at Rosenburg Castle; † 1562 probably at Zagging Castle) was a nobleman of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns in the age of the Reformation.

Life Background and family

Leopold Grabner was the son of Sebastian I Grabner zu Rosenburg from the Grabner zu Rosenburg line of the Herren von Graben family and his first wife Apollonia von Pottenbrunn. During the 16th and early 17th centuries, the Grabners were among the richest and most respected families in Austria, and among the leading Protestant noble families in the country, and were therefore in opposition to the Habsburgs.

Georg Grabner married Anna von Neidegg, daughter of Hans von Neidegg zu Ranna and Barbara . Their son Wilhelm appears to have died early, and after her father's death, her daughter Elisabeth brought the Zagging estate into her marriage to Helmhard von Jörger zu Tollet, Baron zu Kreisbach, as an inheritance. In 1535 he inherited the Zagging Lordship and the Grafendorf fief from his father. He and his half-brother shared the Lordship in common. When Josaphat died as an imperial ensign in Hungary, he bequeathed half of the Aggsbach fief to Georg, which he received from his older half-brother Christoph Grabner zu Rosenburg zu Waasen; the other half belonged to his younger half-brother Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg. Georg also received the fiefs of Siebenbrunn,

Georg Grabner was a regimental councilor between 1537 and 1540 and then appointed to the Lower Austrian knighthood. Leopold also inherited the lordship of Rosenburg from Georg.