Albrecht II of Hohenberg-Rotenburg was Count of Hohenberg and Haigerloch and imperial governor of Lower Swabia.
Background
Albrecht was the son of Count Burchard V of Hohenberg and his wife Mechthild hereditary countess (Erbgräfinance) from the family of Counts Palatine of Tübingen. On his father"s death in 1253 he inherited the territory around Hohenberg Castle, Haigerloch and Rotenburg. (d1318) inherited to lands of his mother around the castles of Nagold and Wildberg, and founded a separate Hohenberg line.
Career
Two stanzas in the Codex Manesse are attributed to him under the name of Albrecht von Haigerloch. Count and Vogt Around 1280 Albrecht founded the town of Rotenburg (today Rottenburg am Neckar) near the existing castle as new administrative center of his county. A more central authority was necessary because of the constant territorial extensions of Hohenberg towards the Neckar.
He benefited from the rise of the Habsburgs.
He was a close adviser to the king and accompanied him on several campaigns. In 1290 a visit of Albrecht to the court of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia is documented.
In 1298, while trying to prevent Otto III, Duke of Bavaria from uniting his army with Adolf"s against Albrecht of Austria, Albrecht fell in the battle on the Kreuzwiesen near his castle of Leinstetten. Minstrel Albrecht is also noted as a minstrel.
In the Codex Manesse on page 42r is a miniature showing him under the name of Count Albrecht of Haigerloch as a knight in battle (presumably the battle in which he fell).
The back of the page contains the only two song verses ascribed to Albrecht.
Membership
He was a member of the house of Zollern-Hohenberg, a branch of the Swabian House of Hohenzollern which split off in the 12th century.