Berthold I. (Nidda)

Berthold I. von Nidda (* around 1110, † 1162 ) was Count von Nidda from the House of Malsburg.

Berthold was a son of the first Count von Nidda , Volkold II , and his wife Luitgart von Nürings and succeeded his father as the ruling Count of Nidda. His brothers Thammo / Dammo (only reported in 1131) and Gottfried (reported in 1131 and 1132) had died before or shortly after their father. Berthold increased his property in the Nidda area by exchanging inherited goods in North Hesse and Westphalia with the Abdinghof monastery in Paderborn and the Helmarshausen monastery near Bad Karlshafen .

In 1154 he lost the Westphalian goods he still had in Atteln and Boke in a process decided by Duke Heinrich the Lion to Abdinghof Monastery, as his mother had already exchanged them for others in Natzungen near Höxter in 1130 with his knowledge .

In 1155 he also lost the castles of Malsburg and Schartenberg in Northern Hesse and all associated property there to Archbishop Arnold von Mainz , as he had sided with Count Palatine Hermann von Stahleck in a feud . Several counts were as a partisan of the Count Palatine of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa because of breach of the peace with the outlawed occupied and degrading punishment of dogs wearing been sentenced, but Berthold ignored the summons to Gelnhausen and the judgment and made a name instead as a robber baron and highwaymen . He probably used the Alteburg near Kohden , barely more than a kilometer north of Nidda. After all, he is said to have been forced to surrender and accept the punishment by an imperial contingent - according to legend, however, only after an attempt by his wife to save him in the manner of the Faithful Wives of Weinsberg had been discovered and thwarted.

His successor as Count von Nidda was Berthold II († before 1205), probably his son.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Schmidt, Geschichte des Großherzogthums Hessen, p. 254.
2. ↑ http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/grimm/nidda.html

literature

• Ottfried Dascher (Ed.): Nidda: the history of a city and its surrounding area. 2nd Edition. Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2003, ISBN 3-9803915-8-2 .
• Karl E. Demandt: History of the State of Hesse. 2nd Edition. Kassel 1972, ISBN 3-7618-0404-0 . (County Nidda: p. 159)
• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 . (= Nidda history sheets 9.)
• Joh. Ernst Christian Schmidt: History of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Volume Two: History of the Province of Upper Hesse. Publishing house Georg Friedrich Heyer, Giessen, 1819
• Wilhelm Wagner: 1025 years of Nidda - the story of an old, lovable city. Nidda 1976.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Witzel: The imperial abbey of Fulda and their high bailiffs, the counts of Ziegenhain in the 12th and 13th centuries. 1963. (= Publication of the Fulda History Association 41)

predecessor	Office	successor
Volkold I.	Count of Nidda approx. 1130–1162	Berthold II.