Berthold II (Nidda)

Berthold II of Nidda († before 1205) was the successor of Count Berthold I of Nidda and probably his son.

Count of Nidda

While Berthold by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa after a serious feud because of breach of the peace with the outlawed occupied and degrading punishment of dogs wearing had been condemned, then, but in defiance of a summons to Gelnhausen as robber barons and highwaymen in the Wetterau had made a name was Berthold II. A close follower of Barbarossa.

In 1187 he donated extensive goods and rights to the Order of St. John, sponsored by Emperor Friedrich, for the salvation of his parents' soul , including in particular the parish of Nitehe ( Nidda ) and its daughter churches in Eichelsdorf and Reichelshausen, as well as income from a total of 26 other places. On this donation, the order established its first Commandery in Hesse, the eighth in Germany. The gifts mentioned in the deed are from the area of Einartshausen and Eschenrod in the north to Wallernhausen , Wenings and Gelnhaar in the south. In Wenings he gave the Johannitern a farm and a hoof , in Gelnhaar a Malter cheese. Since neither Wenings nor Gelnhaar were in the county of Nidda, it is assumed that these legal titles belonged to the marriage property of a daughter from the neighboring house of Büdingen , who had married into the count family of Nidda; it could have been Berthold's mother or wife.

Berthold is mentioned for the last time in 1191, as a witness in a document from Archbishop Konrad I of Mainz about the foundation of the Konradsdorf Monastery .

Succession

With him the Counts of Nidda from the Malsburg family died out in the male line. When he died is not known, but in 1205 his nephew Ludwig I von Ziegenhain (* around 1167, † 1227), the son of his sister Mechthild, is mentioned in a document as Count von Nidda. After the death of his older brother Gottfried II (* 1156, † 1205) Ludwig became the ruling Count of Ziegenhain and now united both counties in his hand.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Today desert east of Ober-Schmitten .
2. ↑ Deed of donation from Count Berthold II. Von Nidda to the Johanniter ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ The Johanniterturm, which was added to the Romanesque Johanniterkirche from the 11th century, which was donated to the order in 1491/92, is the last remnant of this commandery still visible today.
4. ↑ Hans-Velten Heuson: 800 years of Gelnhaar (PDF; 63 kB)
5. ↑ Mechthild had married Count Rudolf II von Ziegenhain (* around 1132, † after 1188) around 1155 , the second son of Gottfried I , the first Count von Ziegenhain, and brother and successor of Count Gozmar III. who died in 1184 when the Erfurt latrine fell .

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)
• Johann Ernst Christian Schmidt: History of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Volume Two: History of the Province of Upper Hesse. Verlag Georg Friedrich Heyer, Gießen 1819, pp. 254-255
• 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. (= publications of the Fulda History Association No. 41)

predecessor	Office	successor
Berthold I.	Count of Nidda 1162-ca. 1205	Ludwig I.