 The "Vögte" generally came from the greater aristocracy of the region.By inheritance from the Lenzburgs the "Vogtei" passed first to the counts of Kyburg, then later to the Habsburgs and the Counts of Toggenburg.By the transfer of the lordship of Windegg to the cantons of Glarus and Schwyz in 1438 the abbey passed, as part of the common overlordship of Windegg, to the Old Swiss Confederacy.