Today I decided to do a family tree and was amazed to find that I was related to someone of significance Charles Von Komstohk. Doing some reading I found this excerpt
Frankfort, Germany, of pedigrees of nine generations of Komstohks prior to Charles von Komstohk, a baron of the Roman Empire, who escaped to England in 1547, because implicated with other noblemen of Austria and Silesia in the von Benedict treason.
After doing some googling and not really coming up with much I am hoping someone may be able to tell me what the incident was about. Thank you in advance!
Your struggle may be the product of misinformation. The extract your are quoting (which sounds like a Google Books snippet - is it?) comes from CB Comstock's A Comstock genealogy (1907) and the passage actually continues:
"Careful search at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and at Breslau, fails to find any trace of a Baron von Komstohk, or of a von Benedict treason. Dr John Lee Comstock of Hartford, Ct., accepted the story. His sister, quoting it, says 5 Sept., 1865, 'from my deceased brother I received what I have written, who as he informed me, upon a visit to Frankfort on the Main by a gentleman whose name I do not recollect, copied and gave it to him.'
"Dr. Comstock was probably misinformed by this unknown person."