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. == References ==