Hans Thomas von Absberg (1477 – 3 July 1531) was a Frankish knight of the Absberg family, known as a robber baron. He kidnapped important travellers like...

castles in Franconia, whose nobles were supporters of Hans Thomas of Absberg in the Absberg Feud. By comparison with other wars and battles the Franconian...

the Rhine river. Some of the most notorious of these were Thomas von Absberg and Götz von Berlichingen, who both made a career out of highway robbery...

Famous members of the family were Henry IV of Absberg, Bishop of Regensburg, and Thomas von Absberg, a robber baron who kidnapped important travellers...

early modern Germany. pp. 35. Baader, Joseph. Verhandlungen über Thomas von Absberg und seine Fehden gegen den Schudbischen Bund 1519 bis 1530. Tubingen...

later the Margraves of Nuremberg, intended to start a war against Thomas von Absberg and his allies. The Franconian War broke out in 1523, and several...

baronetcy, in order to keep their estates and if possible to expand them. Thomas von Absberg was particularly noted for this and, around 1500, had terrorized the...

Reitzenstein and Zedtwitz. As a consequence of supporting the robber baron Thomas von Absberg, they were forced to give up their origin lands and moved to Upper...

barons of the impoverished landed gentry, such as the Schnapphahn Thomas von Absberg, who had several Nuremberg merchants on his conscience, in the Franconian...

Elisabeth II von Murach, Abbess (1400–1402) Margarethe I Sattelbogerin, Abbess (?–1435) Barbara von Absberg, Abbess (1435–1456) Kunigunde von Egloffstein...