Eberhard I. (Katzenelnbogen)

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Grave slab of Count Eberhard I von Katzenelnbogen in the basilica of the Eberbach monastery

Count Eberhard I. von Katzenelnbogen (* around 1243; † 23 August 1311 ) was co-ruler of the County of Katzenelnbogen and founder of the younger line of von Katzenelnbogen. After the division in 1260, his property was increasingly in the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , while his brother Diether V (founder of the older line ) had more of his property in the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen .

family

Eberhard I was the son of Count Diether IV von Katzenelnbogen and his wife Hildegunde von Eberstein . He ruled as the first lord of the Younger Line from 1260 to 1311 and was married to Elisabeth von Eppstein . He had the following children with her:

  • Gerhard (* 1293; † 1312), ⚭ January 25, 1299 Margarete von der Mark , daughter of Eberhard I von der Mark
  • Diether († 1289)
  • Philipp († 1290)
  • Bertha (* 1283; † after 1307), ⚭ Thomas von Rieneck
  • Margarete (* 1295)
  • Berthold III. († 1321), ⚭ Adelheid von Sayn

Life

In 1260, the county Katzenelnbogen was I. between Eberhard and his brother Diether V divided. From then on, Diether V was in charge of the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen and St. Goar with Rheinfels Castle , which became the residence of the older line, while the Upper County around Darmstadt was awarded to Count Eberhard I and thus the younger line. Diether V. also had property in the Upper County. In 1274, Zwingenberg , which belonged to him, was granted city rights by King Rudolf von Habsburg . This made Zwingenberg the oldest town on Bergstrasse .

In 1273 Eberhard I entered the service of King Rudolf von Habsburg, and later of Adolf von Nassau and Albrecht I. As an advisor to the three German kings, he was an important pillar of imperial politics on the Rhine . With his help, the interregnum was quickly ended, and the destruction of over 70 robber knight castles was also thanks to him. He traveled around the territory of the empire for his kings, and the documents that mention his name are numerous.

In 1276 Eberhard I secured the imperial pledge to Trebur . In 1282 the pledge at Bopparder Zoll followed, in 1283 the purchase of the castle, town and customs of Braubach , and in 1291 he had Stadeck Castle built.

Eberhard I. was buried in the church of the Eberbach monastery after his death in 1311 . His son Gerhard followed him as Count von Katzenelnbogen.

literature

  • Karl E. Demandt: The genealogy of the Katzenelnbogen count house . In: Regesten der Grafen von Katzenelnbogen 1060-1486. Volume 1: 1016-1418 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau . Volume 11). Wiesbaden 1953, pp. 34-57.
  • Karl Ernst Demandt:  Eberhard I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 228 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ferdinand Heymach: Count Eberhard I. von Katzenelnbogen . In: Volk und Scholle. Homeland papers for both Hessen, Nassau and Frankfurt am Main . 1924, No. 12, pp. 229-237.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katzenelnbogen, Eberhard I. Graf von. Hessian biography (as of August 23, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ genealogie-mittelalter.de ( Memento from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Eberhard I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberhard I. von Katzenelnbogen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count and ruler of the County of Katzenelnbogen
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1311