Graf Rudolf von Montfort-Werdenberg, I

• after 1200 Count Hugo I. orders the construction of a castle above the small village of Götzis and calls him- self von Montfort (= strong mountain). He orders additional construction projects within his dominion, which includes Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein, Sarganserland and Werdenberg, i.e. the expansion of the Castle Sargans and new construction of Castle Werdenberg (= important mountain).
• 1228 Construction of the keep and the inner ring wall.
• 1232 Construction of the palace, the ward and the outer ring wall.
• around 1244 Rudolf von Montfort dies and leaves behind his widow, Clementa von Kyburg with two daughters and two sons. She takes up residence in Sargans, and marries a Count von Hohenberg in 1249. The two sons become wards of the Kyburg family.
• 1259 Hartmann I., one of Rudolf’s sons, calls himself «von Werdenberg» for the first time. With him starts the line of the Counts of Werdenberg- Sargans.
• around 1261 Construction of the city wall around Werdenberg.
• before 1270 Death of Hartmann I. of Werdenberg-Sargans. Hugo I. von Werdenberg is the only heir and guar- dian of his nephews of Sargans.
• 1277 Hugo I. buys the Castle Heiligen- berg and thus is the founder of the line of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg. As a relative to the Habsburg dynasty, he maintains close ties to king Rudolf

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