Chuniza from Giech

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Chuniza von Giech , also Kuniza or Cuniza , (* around 1120 ; † April 13, 1143 ) was a Frankish countess from the Reginbodonen family by birth and marriage , who after the divorce of their marriage forced by the church gave her significant parental inheritance to the monastery Bamberg transferred and died soon afterwards.

Life

Her parents were Count Reginbodo (Reinboth) von Giech and Wertheim and his wife Adela von Beichlingen , sister of Count Friedrich II. Von Beichlingen. Chuniza was their only daughter. She was married to Count Poppo I of Andechs and Plassenburg († December 11, 1148 near Constantinople ) in 1139 . She brought the castles Giech and Lichtenfels , as well as Scheßlitz as well as numerous properties in the Franconian Alb into her marriage. The marriage had a son, Heinrich, who had an ecclesiastical career.

The marriage with Poppo was divorced in 1142 at the instigation of Bishop Egilbert von Bamberg by synodal resolution because the two spouses were too close. Chuniza then handed over her entire parental inheritance - the castles of Giech, Lichtenfels and Mistelfeld including all accessories - to the diocese of Bamberg . In return, she received a farm in Zeil am Main as a place of residence, plus 20 pounds of income each from Bamberg and Forchheim and, through her guardian , Count Friedrich II of Beichlingen, a farm from her father. Whether she entered a monastery , as has been handed down in some places , is not certain, but it is rather unlikely. On April 13, 1143, the necrology of the cathedral chapter in Bamberg , and not that of a monastery, recorded her death. She was buried in the monastery church of Millstadt in Carinthia , where her son Heinrich was abbot from 1166 to 1177 as Heinrich II.

Inheritance dispute

Armed confrontations soon broke out over Chuniza's legacy to the Bamberg Monastery, as Poppo I didn't want to miss the Giecher legacy. It was only after Chuniza's death in 1143 that an agreement was reached between him and the bishopric in May / June. The latter kept Giech Castle, half of Lichtenfels Castle and some goods in the Main Valley; the remaining possessions of Chunizas came as Bamberg fief for life to Poppo, the son Heinrich and Poppo's brother, Berthold III. , Margrave of Istria († 1188), and should revert to the bishopric after their death. In addition, Poppo was compensated for the renunciation of part of his wife's dowry with the county in Radenzgau, which had previously been administered by high estates ministerials , as a Bamberg fief.

literature

  • August von Jaksch (ed.): Die Kärntner Geschichtsquellen, fourth volume 1202–1269, second part 1263–1269 (Monumenta Historica Ducatus carinthiae, Directorate of the History Association for Carinthia), Klagenfurt, 1906, family table IV.a: Andechs-Meraner
  • Friedrich Karl Hohmann: Days in the Wind: A Franconian Castle Fate. BoD, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2414-2 , pp. 79-82

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hohmann, p. 80
  2. ↑ Hohmann, p. 81
  3. ↑ Hohmann, p. 82
  4. ↑ Before he set out for the Second Crusade in 1147 , Count Poppo had given his and Chuniza's son Heinrich to the Admont Monastery to become a monk there, and from there Heinrich was called to Millstadt.
personal data
SURNAME Chuniza from Giech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuniza of Giech; Cuniza from Giech; Kunigunde from Giech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Giech
DATE OF BIRTH around 1120
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1143