Family Von Graben 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. Andreas had been an official of the
Counts of Celje at
Ortenburg; 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.
Heritage of Sommeregg Since all of Virgil von Grabens sons were from his not legally binding marriage to Dorothea von Arnold (née Herbst von Herbstenburg) none of them could claim his inheritance. His brothers Heinrich, Cosmas, Wolfgang and Wolf Andrä von Graben also had no heirs. So Sommeregg, along with smaller estates, came to Rosina von Graben von Rain and her family, the
Rainer von Rain.
Life , 1680 Upon her father's death in 1513, Rosina 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 von Rain zu Sommeregg, 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. Hans Joachims daughter Ursula von Rain was the last member of the Rainer zu Rain family and married Paul von Leiblfing in 1573. This also gave the coat of arms of the Graben-Rain to the bavarian
Leiblfing family. Rosina's and her husband Haymeran's tomb chapel is to be found of at the St Michael's Church in
Lienz. == Notes ==