Berthold II of Schwarzenburg near Rötz

Berthold von Schwarzenburg bei Rötz (born before 1122; died 1147 or 1148) was a Bavarian nobleman who lived at Schwarzenburg Castle .

Life

Berthold was first witnessed around 1122 as a witness of a transfer of goods of the Duchess Richza of Bohemia by Margrave Diepold III. mentioned by Vohburg to the monastery Reichenbach am Regen . He is in first place of over 20 witnesses, which documents his position of power and the elevated social position of the noble free von Schwarzenburg. In a document dated February 12, 1150, the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich von Schwarzenburg (approx. 1075 / 78–1131), is referred to as his father's uncle. According to documents, Archbishop Friedrich certainly had two, probably three brothers, but there is no clear evidence of Berthold's father. Franz Tyroller suspects that a witness who appeared as Engelbert von Bayern in a document from Archbishop Friedrich from May 1125 is his brother and father of Berthold (II.). Approx. In 1132/33 Berthold appears as a witness to an exchange between Bishop Heinrich I of Regensburg and Margrave Diepold concerning the Cistercian monastery in Waldsassen . In this document the founding of the monastery by Margrave Diepold III. described by Vohburg. Around 1139/1146 Berthold is mentioned in a transfer of goods for the St. Georg monastery inprüfunging. In the spring of 1147 Berthold broke with King Konrad III. to the Second Crusade . Before that, he gave the Regensburg Schottenkloster donations in and around Dietldorf (now part of Burglengenfeld), as the Schottenlegende (Libellus) reported. Berthold never returned from the failed Second Crusade. Two of his loyal followers swore his death in February 1150 during the crusade, which lasted from May 1147 to spring 1149.

According to the necrology of the Schottenkloster he died on September 25th (1147/48). There is no reference to a wife or children of Berthold in any source. The noble elderly Schwarzenburgs died out with him. Only on March 10, 1240 is a "dominus de Swarcenburch" mentioned again in a donation for the Pielenhofen monastery . These nobles from the Schwarzenburg on the Schwarzwihrberg near Rötz , which were continuously documented from 1256 onwards, most likely had no family connection to the older Schwarzenburg noble free.

literature

• Petraig A. Breatnach: The Regensburg Scots legend - Libellus de fundacione ecclesie Consecrati Petri. In: Munich Contributions to Medieval Studies and Renaissance Research 27, Munich 1977, p. 262.
• Episcopal Central Library Regensburg, manuscript No. 12, Tentamem primum (necrology of the Schottenkloster).
• Philipp Jedelhauser: The noble free from Schwarzenburg near Rötz (approx. 1054–1148). In: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 156 (2016), Regensburg 2017, pp. 95–124, see pp. 95–100, pp. 104–111.
• Johann Paulus: The history of the Schwarzenburg rule. In: Rötz, our home in the past and present. March 1981, pp. 46–55 (in detail on later Schwarzenburgers from 1240/1256).
• Franz Tyroller, in: Wilhelm Wegener, Genealogical tables for Central European History, Göttingen 1962–1969, table 17 with comments on No. 14 (p. 196) and No. 21 (p. 197).