Dietrich I. (Wied)

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Dietrich I von Wied († around 1200 in Heisterbach ), also Theodorich I von Wied , was Count zu Wied from around 1162 to around 1197 .

Live and act

Dietrich was a son of Siegfried von Wied . The names of his mother and his wife are not known. His brother Rudolf was elected Archbishop of Trier in a controversial election in 1183 , but was not confirmed by the Pope.

Dietrich received a knight training at the court of the Rhineland Count Palatine Konrad . In a certificate issued on April 26, 1158 by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Sinzig , Dietrich is listed among the witnesses.

In 1162, after the death of his father, Dietrich took over the reign in the county of Wied. Around 1171, but certainly from 1173 onwards, Dietrich was hereditary Vogt of the royal estate in Andernach .

Dietrich took part in the Third Crusade in 1189 in the entourage of Emperor Barbarossa . In 1190 his warriors had conquered cities in Thrace . Dietrich returned the same year after Barbarossa's death. This period also falls lehnsmäßige plot his county to the Rhineland Palatine .

Around 1197 he handed the county over to his son Georg and became a monk in the Cistercian Abbey of Heisterbach . There he also had contacts with Caesarius von Heisterbach .

family

Five sons and three daughters are known to be Dietrich's descendants:

  • Georg von Wied , was Dietrich's successor in the Count's Office and was Count zu Wied from 1197 to 1217, no descendants
  • Konrad von Wied (mentioned in a document in 1204 as " Cunradus frater comitis de Wiede "), took over bailiwick rights to Andernach from 1211 to 1215, which his brother Georg held as bailiff at the time; no offspring
  • Theodoric II von Wied (also called Dietrich II; around 1170–1242), was Archbishop and Elector of Trier from 1212 to 1242 ; Theodoric built the Montabaur fortress around 1220
  • Lothar von Wied († 1244), was the successor of his brother Georg in the Count's office and was Count zu Wied from 1218 to 1243; no offspring
  • Metfried von Wied (mentioned in a document in 1204 and 1220) was provost of St. Paulin in Trier and senior choir bishop of Trier
  • Theodora von Wied (mentioned in a document from 1182 to 1192), was married to Count Bruno von Isenburg († 1210), who later called himself Herr zu Braunsberg ; her son Bruno II became the founder of the Second Count House of Wied
  • Isalda von Wied († 1223), was married to Gottfried I von Eppstein
  • Ida von Wied, was the abbess of the women's monastery in Vreden

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, p. 251; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  2. ^ A b c d e f Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the house of Wied , 1st edition, Neuwied, Verlag Kehrein, 2003, p. 18 ff; ISBN 3-934125-02-6
  3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 611: "Emperor Friedrich I. gives Archbishop Hillin all the silver mines in the archbishopric"
predecessor Office successor
Siegfried Count von Wied
1162–1197 		George
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodoric I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Wied
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1200
Place of death Heisterbach Monastery