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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3356195, member: 2844"]The Thierstein or Tierstein family were an important Swiss noble family in the Middle Ages. Oswald and Wilhelm Thierstein were brothers.The castle is in Alsace, now France. It is also known as Hohkönigsburg, maybe that helps in the search.I found this on Count Oswald: "This powerful noble family had a final period of glory in the reign of Graf Oswald I of Thierstein who as Austrian 'Landvogt' in Alsace, Sundgau and Breisgau held the office of imperial councillor. In 1480 Oswald I transferred the family seat from Pfeffingen to Haut Koenigsbourg which had been granted to him as an imperial fief by Emperor Frederick III. The family died out in 1519"<a href="https://www.hmb.ch/en/museums/objects-in-the-collection/details/s/armorial-panel-of-the-counts-of-thierstein/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hmb.ch/en/museums/objects-in-the-collection/details/s/armorial-panel-of-the-counts-of-thierstein/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hmb.ch/en/museums/objects-in-the-collection/details/s/armorial-panel-of-the-counts-of-thierstein/</a> I am sure our Swiss member [USER=7724]@Fid[/USER] will be able to tell us more.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]