Engelbert I. (goat grove)

Engelbert I. von Ziegenhain (* before 1270, † 1329 ) from the family of the Counts of Ziegenhain was count of Ziegenhain and Nidda zu Nidda from 1294 at the latest and until his death .

origin

Engelbert was the older of two sons of Count Ludwig II of Ziegenhain and Nidda zu Nidda and his wife Sophie von der Mark , who have been handed down in documentary form . His younger brother Gottfried († probably 1313) became canon in Mainz . The year of death of his father Ludwig is unknown: he was still alive in 1290, but in 1294 his wife Sophie is attested as a widow. Therefore, the beginning of Engelbert's assumption of office as Count von Nidda is not proven beyond doubt.

Count of Nidda

Engelbert I. called himself "Graf von Ziegenhain, Herr zu Nidda". One of his first official acts, and probably the first to be recorded, concerned the city, the castle and the Neustadt office , located in the area of ​​the County of Ziegenhain , but defeated in the division of 1258 to the County of Nidda. Engelbert's father had built a castle in Neustadt around 1270 as an ally of the Archbishop of Mainz and in obvious hostility towards the Landgrave -Hessian Marburg , which was promptly destroyed again only three years later by Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse . In order to free himself from this dilemma , he sold the castle, town and office of Neustadt with all the villages and all accessories, including the Nellenburg , on March 10, 1294 for 2,200 marks Cologne pennies to Archbishop Gerhard II of Mainz. For the county of Nidda, this sale meant getting rid of distant free float, disposing of a political problem and a welcome enrichment of the treasury. For the county of Ziegenhain, however, this was a serious damage: he drove a wedge between the Ziegenhain mainland on the Schwalm and the area on the Wohra with the Rauschenberg office .

The good relationship between the count family and the Johanniter in Nidda turned into its opposite during Engelbert's reign. In the year 1300 a dispute broke out between Engelbert and the Johannitern over goods in Widdersheim , Reinhausen and Salzhausen . Although arbitrators were appointed to arbitrate in November 1300, the dispute dragged on for 15 years. In 1314/15 it even escalated into armed conflicts in which Salzhausen was devastated and partly burned down. An agreement was only reached in February 1315.

Marriage and succession

Engelbert married Heilwig in 1286, the eldest daughter of Ludwig I of Isenburg-Büdingen († 1304) and his wife Heilwig, daughter of Gerlach II of Büdingen . The marriage resulted in the daughter Lukardis (Luitgard), the only child of the two.

Engelbert probably died on September 6, 1329 or shortly before. As early as 1300 he had received an assurance from King Albrecht I that if there were no sons, his fiefdom would pass to his daughter or daughters. Lukardis had married Johann I von Ziegenhain († 1359) as early as 1311 , son of Gottfried VI. and since 1304 Count von Ziegenhain. After Engelbert's death, Lukardis ruled the county of Nidda nominally until her death in 1333. Then her husband Johann I reunited the two counties of Ziegenhain and Nidda, which had been separated in 1258, again in one hand.

Engelbert's widow Heilwig bequeathed her Wittum estates to her grandson Gottfried VII von Ziegenhain in 1336 . After that it is no longer revealed.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ On September 1, 1329 Johann I. von Ziegenhain and his wife Luitgard transferred to Countess Heilwig von Nidda, Luitgard's mother, income of 200 marks in Cologne currency for life on the occasion of the death of Count Engelbert. Request No. 486. Regesta of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ^ During a dispute with Gottfried V. von Eppstein († 1339) because of the church set of the parish of Crutzen ( "Krutzen (Crutzen), City of Frankfurt am Main". Historical local lexicon for Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).) He was accused of murdering Heinrich von Romrod .
3. ↑ Nellenburg, at Burgenlexikon ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ March 10, 1294: "Count Engelbert I sells the city of Neustadt to Archbishop Gerhard of Mainz." Regest no. 85. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ Today desert near Rabertshausen
6. ↑ November 10, 1300: “Appointment of the arbitrators in the dispute between Count Engelbert I and the Johanniterkommende Nidda.” Regest no. 1018. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
7. ↑ 25 February 1315: "Settlement of the disputes between Count Engelbert I and the Johannitern zu Nidda." Regest no. 448. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
8. ^ Gustav Simon: The history of the imperial house Ysenburg and Büdingen; Second volume: The Ysenburger and Büdingen house history. Brönner, Frankfurt, 1865 (p. 160)

literature

• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. (Niddaer Geschichtsblätter booklet 9) Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .