The Wurmbrand Saga describes the founding of the House of Wurmbrand-Stuppach by a fence builder who killed a dragon with a burning fencepost and married the widowed Countess of Stuppach during the Crusades. The first real, historical mention of the House of Wurmbrand occurred during the forteenth Century, more than 150 years after the Great Crusades. After 1584 the House divided into two lineages, Wurmbrand-Stuppach being one of these.