Berthold III. (Zähringen)

Berthold III. Relief portrait in the choir of the Freiburg Minster

Berthold III. von Zähringen (* around 1085/1095; † December 3, 1122 near Molsheim in Alsace) was Duke of Zähringen . The Freiburg tradition, according to which Berthold founded Freiburg im Breisgau in 1120 , is very dubious and rather relates to his younger brother Konrad .

Life

Berthold III. took over the reign of his father Berthold II in 1111. He supported Emperor Heinrich V and played a significant role in the Worms Concordat in 1122. Stephan Molitor was able to help when his death date, for which February 19 and May 3 were previously mentioned of a sea book of the Reichenbach monastery that was laid out around 1530 and is now kept in the Royal Library of Copenhagen can identify 3 December 1122. He died a violent death that day in the course of a feud near the town of Molsheim, was transferred to the Zähringische Hauskloster St. Peter near Freiburg and buried there. His brother Konrad followed him.

Berthold III. was married to Sofie von Bayern , a daughter of Heinrich the Black . In Freiburg, the central Bertoldstrasse and the Bertoldsbrunnen are named after him.

swell

Ulrich Parlow: The Zähringer. Annotated source documentation on a south-west German ducal dynasty of the high Middle Ages (= publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series A. Vol. 50). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1999, pp. 125-156, Reg. 180-231.

literature

Gerd Tellenbach : Berthold III., Duke of Zähringen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 160 ( digitized version ).
Georg von Wyss : Bertold III., Duke of Zähringen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 537 f.
Thomas Zotz: The Zähringer. Dynasty and rule (= Urban pocket books. Vol. 776). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-17-022066-7 .

Remarks

↑ With reference to Necrologium minus monasterii S. Petri Nigrae Silvae : In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Necrologia Germaniae, Tom. I, ed. by Franz Ludwig Baumann, Berlin 1888, p. 335. - This necrological entry is confused with the one on 18./19. February 1218 deceased Berthold V von Zähringen .
↑ Necrologium Zwifaltense . In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Necrologia Germaniae, Tom. I, ed. by Franz Ludwig Baumann, Berlin 1888, p. 251.
^ Stephan Molitor: The date of death of Duke Bertolds III. von Zähringen in the Reichenbacher Seelbuch monastery in Copenhagen. In: Karl Schmid (Ed.): Die Zähringer. A tradition and its exploration. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, pp. 37-42.

predecessor	Office	successor
Berthold II.	Duke of Zähringen 1111–1122	Konrad I.

personal data
SURNAME	Berthold III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Duke Berthold III. from Zähringen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Zähringen
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1085
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 1122
Place of death	Molsheim

[1] With reference to Necrologium minus monasterii S. Petri Nigrae Silvae : In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Necrologia Germaniae, Tom. I, ed. by Franz Ludwig Baumann, Berlin 1888, p. 335. - This necrological entry is confused with the one on 18./19. February 1218 deceased Berthold V von Zähringen .

[2] Necrologium Zwifaltense . In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Necrologia Germaniae, Tom. I, ed. by Franz Ludwig Baumann, Berlin 1888, p. 251.

[3] Stephan Molitor: The date of death of Duke Bertolds III. von Zähringen in the Reichenbacher Seelbuch monastery in Copenhagen. In: Karl Schmid (Ed.): Die Zähringer. A tradition and its exploration. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, pp. 37-42.