Friedrich II. Von Goseck

Friedrich II. Von Goseck (* between 1000 and 1030; † May 27, 1088 in Barby ) was Count von Goseck , Vogt von Hersfeld and from 1056 Count Palatine of Saxony .

He was the younger son of Count Palatine Friedrich I of Saxony from the Goseck family and Agnes von Weimar. In 1056 he succeeded his murdered brother Dedo as Count Palatine of Saxony. He rigorously exploited the weakness of the central power. In 1063 he moved to Hungary. From 1066 he got into a dispute with King Heinrich IV because of his recuperation policy, but remained loyal to the king until the death of his brother Adalbert I von Goseck , the archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, in 1072. Among other things, he received the salt rack and coin rack for Sulza and took part in the deposition of Duke Otto von Northeim in 1070 . He also quarreled with the bishops of Halberstadt and their vassals, the counts of Supplinburg . He was a co-leader of the Saxon opposition. After the Battle of Homburg an der Unstrut , he had to submit and was exiled by the king to Pavia in 1075 , where he was held for a year and a half. At the first major armed clash between the two kings Heinrich and Rudolf in the battle of Mellrichstadt on August 7, 1078, Friedrich was a commander of the Saxon troops. In 1085 he finally submitted and then withdrew.

Marriage and children

Before 1063 he married Hedwig von Bayern (ex Bavaria Oriunda) , with her he had a son, Friedrich III. (* around 1065), who was murdered in 1085, which is why his posthumously born son, Friedrich IV. , took over his inheritance as Count Palatine.

Web links

• Christof Paulus: Friedrich II. Von Goseck . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

predecessor	Office	successor
Dedo	Count Palatine of Saxony 1056-1088	Friedrich IV.