Passed by Itter

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Mechthild Gepa von Itter (* around 1078 in Detmold ; † around 1135 ) was a German aristocrat and donor of the Augustinian women's choir at Aroldessenden .

family

Gepa, the name is a short form of Gerberga ("who provides protection with her spear"), was the fourth of five children and the only daughter of Count Konrad II of Werl-Arnsberg (* around 1040; † 1092) and his wife Mechthild / Mathilde (* around 1050; † around 1092), a daughter of Count Otto von Northeim , born in Detmold. Her brothers were Hermann von Werl-Arnsberg (* around 1070; † 19 July 1092), Friedrich I "the arguable" von Werl-Arnsberg (* around 1071; † February 1124), Liupold von Werl (* around 1076; † around 1102) and Heinrich I. von Werl-Rietberg (* around 1079, † around 1116).

Gepa was married twice. Her first husband was Gumbert von Itter (1065–1127). As his widow, she got Itter Castle as a widow's seat after 1127 and then called herself Gepa von Itter . In her second marriage she was married to Count Konrad I. von Everstein .

Mated von Itter had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Wiltrud († 1132, during a trip to Rome ) became a nun in the Kaufungen Monastery , Lutrud (* before 1128; † ~ 1149) married Widekind I. von Schwalenberg , the progenitor of the Counts of Waldeck . Bertha or Mechthild (* ~ 1095; † 1155) married the progenitor of the second house of Itter , to whom she brought, among other things, castle and rule Itter.

Aroldessen Monastery

In 1131 Gepa and three of her daughters, Lutrud, Mechthild and Bertha, founded the Aroldessen Monastery , an Augustinian choir monastery . Bishop Bernhard I of Paderborn confirmed the monastery in the same year. Gepa's grandson, Count Volkwin II. Von Schwalenberg , son of their daughter Lutrud and Count Widekind I von Schwalenberg and, as Volkwin I, founder of the Count's House of Waldeck , took over the bailiwick of the monastery. In December 1182, Pope Lucius III. the pen in his protection and confirmed his possessions.

In 1526 the monastery was secularized by the Counts of Waldeck ; it passed into their possession and was later converted into the Arolsen residential palace.

literature

  • Michael Bentler: Gepa von Itter - a born Countess von Arnsberg-Werl . In: “View into our large community, our home”, No. 99, History Association Itter-Hessenstein, Vöhl-Dorfitter, July 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the City of Arolsen , accessed on June 2, 2020.
  2. ^ Heinrich Finke (arr.): The Papal Deeds of Westphalia up to 1304 . Regensberg, Münster, 1888, pp. 52-53, no.136
personal data
SURNAME Itter, Gepa by
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Itter, Mechthild Gepa from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and founder of the Augustinian women's choir monastery Aroldessenden
DATE OF BIRTH around 1078
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH around 1135