Stadeck

Stadeck was an important family of ministeriales in Styria during the 13th and 14th centuries.

Depiction of Rudolph II Stadeck in Codex Manesse. The coat of arms with three dice is fictional; the historical arms of the family had a lion as heraldic charge.

The family is named for Stattegg castle, beginning with Rudolph I (1192–1230). His son Rudolph II (d. 1261) was a leading minnesinger, featured in Codex Manesse.

Another son of Rudolph I, Hartnid I, was active in the party of Rudolph I of Germany in the feud against Ottokar I of Bohemia.

The male line of the family died out with Johann of Stadeck in 1399.

References

• Karl Weinhold, 'Der Minnesinger von Stadeck und sein Geschlecht', Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften vol. 35, Vienna, 1860.
• Joseph Bergmann, Die letzten Herren von Stadeck und ihre Erben, Sitzungsberichte... vol. 9, Vienna, 1853.