Friedrich IV von Goseck

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Friedrich IV. (* 1085 , Weißenburg, Zscheiplitz ; † May 26 or June 1125 ) was Count of Putelendorf and Count Palatine of Saxony .

He was the only son of the Saxon Count Palatine Friedrich III, who was murdered shortly before his birth . and Adelheid von Stade.

He lost most of his allodies in Thuringia with Fryburg, Lauchstädt, Bad Sulza near Erfurt to the Ludowinger Ludwig (II.) Of Thuringia.

When he saw himself cheated of his inheritance, he accused his stepfather, Ludwig der Springer, of murdering his father. But the case was of Henry V defeated.

In the war of inheritance for the county of Weimar-Orlamünde he was one of the opponents of Emperor Heinrich V, whose general Hoyer I von Mansfeld , together with his half-brother Hermann, forced him to give up on June 6, 1112 in Teuchern near Weißenfels. Both were imprisoned at Hammerstein Castle on the Rhine. Friedrich was released in 1114 with a ransom, while his half-brother Hermann had died in custody.

In 1117/18 he defended Kyffhäuser against Count Palatine Friedrich I von Sommerschenburg , but had to surrender after a long siege.

Marriage and children

In 1116 he married Agnes (* around 1100; † 1129–1136), the daughter of Count Heinrich I of Limburg . He had the following children with her:

  • Heinrich († 1126), Count Palatine of Saxony
  • Friedrich (around 1117 - 31 January 1179), 1169–1179 Bishop of Prague
  • Bertha († 1190) ∞ Berthold I, Count of Henneberg
  • to Isenburg : Hermann (* before 1114; † 1123/29)

After his death Agnes married Walo II von Veckenstedt , the younger (slain in 1126).

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