Bezelin from Villingen

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Bezelin von Villingen († July 15, 1024 ; also Berthold ) was, according to the family tree of Friedrich Barbarossas presented by Wibald von Stablo (1098–1158), an ancestor of the Zähringer family . His mother was then Bertha von Bühren, the daughter of Count Sieghard IV.

He was the father or grandfather of Berthold I von Zähringen , who died in 1078 on his Limburg in Weilheim an der Teck after seeing the devastation that Heinrich IV had brought upon Berthold's property when he invaded .

Berthold was probably married to a daughter or sister of Count Landold of Thurgau , who, like Landold's wife, was named Liutgard. After his death (probably in 991) Bezelin became Count in Thurgau.

In addition, documents testify that Bezelin received the honor of Otto III in 999. Sister Adelheid to invest in Quedlinburg as abbess .

After Alfons Zettler , Bezelin moved from Villingen with Otto III. in the years 998 to 1000 to Italy . For his services, to which the capture of the antipope John XVI. are supposed to count, he received 999 market , coin and customs rights for his possessions in the Baar around Villingen .

Eduard Heyck, however, attests the capture of the antipope and the resulting market rights in Villingen to the Breisgau- Graf Birchtilo († approx. 1005). He was the builder of the Sulzburg monastery (around 993), which in 1004 had acquired the market privilege for Rinken (near Steinenstadt ) from Heinrich II . Heyck refers to the Zähringer genealogy of the monks in the monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest from around 1300 . According to Zettler, the monks declared Birchtilo and his son Gebizo (Gebhard) to be the ancestors of the Zähringer monastery founders Berthold II and Gebhard III. von Zähringen in order to increase the importance of their monastery, which was "only" founded in the eleventh century, compared to the older Sulzburg monastery.

Heyck, on the other hand, took the bezelin of Villingen from the family tree to be Berthold, the brother of Count Rudolf of Burgundy, who was the grandfather of the anti-king Rudolf von Rheinfelden . He performed several times with his brother between 1000 and 1019, including March 28, 1010, when they documented the donation of the Sulzburg monastery to the bishopric of Basel by Birchtilo, a descendant of the Breisgaugrafen. Heyck mentions this Berthold for the year 1016 as the successor of the Ortenaugrafen Hessinus (1007). He is said to have obtained this position through his relationship with Heinrich II: he undertook several trips through the empire with the emperor and was with him twice as advocate for the Paderborn bishop Meinwerk around 1020 . At the beginning of December 1021 he accompanied him on his army voyage to southern Italy. In February 1022 he was appointed by the emperor during the court court of Campo Pietra as a judgment spokesman in a decision against Count Otto in favor of the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno , together with its chancellor Dietrich and the bishops Leo von Vercelli and Ulrich von Trient .

Monument to the founder of Villingen, Berthold, in Villingen

In Villingen there is a monument to the city's founder created by the sculptor Josef Ummenhofer , which Ummenhofer created on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the city's membership in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1906 or 1907. In front of it there is a board that reports on the founding of the city in 999. The statue is a copy of the statue of Duke Berthold I created by the Konstanz sculptor Hans Baur , which was originally located on the Konstanz bridge over the Rhine .

literature

  • Eduard Heyck : History of the dukes of Zähringen . Freiburg im Breisgau 1891-1892, reprint Aalen 1980, ISBN 3-511-00945-6 , pp. 3-16 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfons Zettler : Who was Count Bertold, who was founded in 999 by Emperor Otto III. received the market rights for Villingen? In: Annual issue of the history and homeland association Villingen 23, 1999/2000, pp. 9-14 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alfons Zettler: Who was Count Bertold, who in 999 by Emperor Otto III. received the market rights for Villingen? in: Annual issue of the history and homeland association Villingen 23, 1999/2000, pp. 9-14 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Peter Koblank: Tabula consanguinitatis by Wibald von Stablo. In: stauferstelen.net. 2015, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Georg von Wyß:  Bertold I, Duke of Zähringen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 534-536.
  4. ^ Gerd Tellenbach :  Berthold I. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 159 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Gerd Althoff : Otto III. (= Design of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-021-2 , p. 101. 104, ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Eduard Heyck: History of the Dukes of Zähringen , Freiburg im Breisgau 1891-1892, reprint Aalen 1980, ISBN 3-511-00945-6 , ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Arnold Tschira : The monastery church Sankt Cyriacus in Sulzburg in: Schau-ins-Land. Annual issue of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schauinsland , Volume 80, 1962, p. 3 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Bräun: Villingen-Schwenningen: City history: Famous Villinger Berthold monument has a double in Constance. In: suedkurier.de. November 3, 2016, accessed February 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bezelin from Villingen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birchtilo, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count in Thurgau
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1024