Giso II.

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Giso II. (* Before 1049 ; † 1073 ) was a count from the Gison family in the Marburg area in Hesse . He is first attested in 1049 and was killed in 1073 in the course of a feud at his Hollende Castle in the weather . He was probably not the son, but a descendant of Giso I , the alleged progenitor of his line.

Giso II belonged to the inner circle of followers around King Heinrich IV , who, as a result of the fief policy of his mother, the Empress Agnes , was in dispute with the Saxon count and Bavarian duke Otto von Northeim during her reign for her underage son . After Heinrich took over the official business himself in 1065, he tried to expand his personal property by accessing Otto's possessions and fiefs on the Harz . Otto resisted.

The plot against Otto von Northeim

This led to a sensational incident in 1070 in which Giso II played an inglorious role for which he would pay with his life a few years later. Heinrich IV. Spent the Whitsun holidays of 1070 in Fritzlar . There Egeno I. von Konradsburg appeared , a nobleman of dubious reputation from the northern slope of the Harz Mountains. He claimed that Otto von Northeim had recruited him to murder the king, and presented a sword that was supposedly given to him for this purpose. Otto protested his innocence, but was asked to fight with Egeno in order to wash himself away from the accusation through this divine judgment . This aroused considerable displeasure among the imperial princes , as Otto enjoyed a high reputation and the invitation to a duel with a "bush thief" was viewed as an unreasonable affront.

Otto refused due to lack of security guarantees, to a duel in Goslar to appear, and was subsequently Heinrich in the imperial ban did when Duke deposed and his Saxon home goods expropriated. He then allied himself with Magnus Billung , the son of the Duke of Saxony, and took up arms, but was defeated in early 1071 and taken into imperial custody from Pentecost 1071 to July 1072. Then he got his property back, but not his extensive imperial fiefs.

The instigator and author of the plot against Otto were Count Giso II and Count Adalbert von Schauenburg . Presumably with knowledge or even on Heinrich's orders, they are said to have forged the plan, formulated the indictment and bribed Egeno to appear at the royal court with the indictment. The aim of the conspiracy was the disempowerment of the Bavarian Duke and the expropriation of all his property, which would have been available to Heinrich for personal possession or for lending to loyal followers.

Giso's end

Giso and Adalbert paid a heavy price for their intrigue. In the summer of 1073 Otto von Northeim took the lead in the Saxon uprising against the Salian monarchy and its royal policy. Otto's followers invaded Hesse and, as the chronicler Lampert von Hersfeld reports, they conquered the Gisonen-Burg Hollende and killed Giso, Adalbert and Adalbert's four sons.

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SURNAME Giso II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graf in the Marburg area in Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH before 1049
DATE OF DEATH 1073
Place of death Hollende Castle in weather