Bertha von Groitzsch

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Bertha von Groitzsch or von Morungen (* 2nd half of the 11th century; † May 16, 1144 ) was a German monastery donor.

Life

She was a daughter of Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch and his wife Judith, who died giving birth to another daughter.

When Bertha von Groitzsch received the area around Zwickau as a marriage property in 1092 , she tried, as a zealous advocate of Christianity, to eradicate the paganism that was still widespread in this area . Therefore, in 1112 she asked the Wettin Dietrich I , Bishop of Naumburg, to allow the foundation and building of a church for the Gau Zwickau. This church was consecrated as Marienkirche on May 1st, 1118 by Bishop Dietrich, according to a document in the Zwickau city archive. It mentions the founder Bertha von Groitzsch. The Marienkirche was assigned to the monastery Posa (near Zeitz ). Six monks from there began their work in the parish in 1118 , which was essentially missionary service. Bertha was divorced after a short marriage with Sizzo von Käfernburg and later the wife of Count Dedo IV von Wettin , with whom she had the daughter Mathilde and thus became the ancestral mother of the Saxon royal family. From 1124 Bertha was widowed.

In 1135 she inherited the property of her brother Heinrich, u. a. Leisnig and Colditz , who passed on to their daughter Mathilde after their death, who she brought to her husband, the Bamberg bailiff Rapoto von Abenberg .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Die Stadt Zwickau , in: Saxonia: Museum für Sächsische Vaterlandskunde , Vol. 4
  2. ↑ City tour - topic Middle Ages on www.zwickautourist.de ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwickautourist.de
  3. ↑ Manfred Kobuch: Die Staufische Tafelgüter in the Meißnischen brand area , in: Lutz Fenske (Ed.): Deutsche Königspfalzen , Bd. 4, Göttingen, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Bertha von Groitzsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German monastery founder
DATE OF BIRTH after 1050
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1144