The monastery of Saint
Martin of Tours at Muri in the
Canton of Aargau, in the Diocese of Basel (but originally in that of Constance), was founded in 1027 by
Radbot, Count of Habsburg, one of the progenitors of the
House of Habsburg. Rha, a daughter of
Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and
Werner, Bishop of Strasburg, each donated a portion of land to a monastery which they established there. A colony of monks was drawn from the nearby
Einsiedeln Abbey, under the leadership of
Prior Reginbold. On his death in 1055, Burchard was chosen as the monastery's first
abbot. During his rule the abbey church was consecrated in 1064. The abbey had its vicissitudes of good and bad fortune. It was laid low by two disastrous fires, in 1300 and in 1363; wars and uprisings checked for a time its prosperity. It recovered something of its old life under Abbot Conrad II, only to suffer again during the abbacy of his successor,
George Russinger, in the war between the
Swiss Confederacy and the Habsburgs. as are the bodies of their sons
Rudolf and
Felix. ==Present day==