Bruno II (Isenburg-Braunsberg)

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Bruno II. Von Isenburg-Braunsberg , also Bruno II. Von Braunsberg (* around 1179; † before 1256; documented evidence since 1210) owned a quarter of the county of Wied from 1243 and 1244 respectively . He came from the Isenburg family and is to be regarded as the founder of the second count's house of the Counts of Wied, also known as the "Wied-Braunsberg-Isenburg Line" and later the "Wied-Isenburg Line".

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Bruno II. Was a son of Bruno I von Braunsberg († before 1210), and Theodora von Wied (mentioned in a document in 1190 and 1218). Bruno II. Brothers were the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Arnold von Isenburg (around 1190–1259) and Dietrich von Isenburg, also called "the Elder" (mentioned in a document between 1218 and 1253), who is regarded as the founder of the "Niederisenburg Line", which only died out in 1664 with the death of Count Ernst von Isenburg-Grenzau . Nothing is known of Bruno's sister Agnes apart from her name.

Bruno II was married to a Johanna whose family name has not been passed down. Children were Bruno III. († around 1279) and Mechtild († around 1280), who with Gottfried III. von Eppstein (* around 1227, † 1293) was married.

Bruno II owned Braunsberg Castle from his father's inheritance and partial manorial rights in Heddesdorf , Langendorf, Niederbieber and Oberbieber as well as the distant Dierdorf .

County of Wied

After the death of his maternal uncle, Count Lothar von Wied , Bruno and his brother Dietrich and their cousins ​​Gottfried II and Gerhard II von Eppstein inherited the County of Wied . On March 5, 1243, Count Ludwig von Wied handed over his Electoral Palatinate fiefdom to the brothers Bruno II von Braunsberg and Dietrich von Isenburg , Count Palatine Otto bei Rhein had already confirmed in 1238 that after Lothar's death he wanted to enfeoff Bruno and Dietrich with the County of Wied.

Both the Isenburg and Eppstein brothers each had an “archbishop brother”: Arnold von Isenburg (1190–1259), Archbishop of Trier and Siegfried von Eppstein (1194–1249), Archbishop of Mainz .

While Count Lothar von Wied was still alive, the six Isenburg and Eppstein cousins ​​concluded a settlement on November 27, 1240, according to which the two archbishops waived their share in the County of Wied and this should each belong to the two families as a condominium . In the event of any disputes, the two archbishops should mediate.

In the following generations of the two houses there were various sales of the shares in the county, mergers due to marriage and disputes.

Regardless of the fact that Bruno II only owned a quarter of the County of Wied and he never called himself "Count zu Wied", he succeeds his uncle Count Lothar von Wied and as the founder of the second count's house in the order of rulers of the county zu Wied, because under his descendant, Count Wilhelm I von Wied (around 1324-1383), the different parts of the county were reunited.

literature

  • Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the House of Wied. 1st edition. Verlag Kehrein, Neuwied 2002, ISBN 3-934125-02-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes. 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , pp. 253 ff., 301 ff.
  2. ^ A b c Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the House of Wied. 1st edition. Verlag Kehrein, Neuwied 2003, ISBN 3-934125-02-6 , p. 24 ff.
predecessor Office successor
Lothar von Wied Count of Wied
1243–1255 		Bruno III from Braunsberg
personal data
SURNAME Bruno II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruno II of Isenburg-Braunsberg; Bruno II von Braunsberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Herr zu Braunsberg , founder of the second count's house of the Counts of Wied
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH before 1256