Giso IV.

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Giso IV. (* Around 1070; † March 12, 1122 ) was Count in Oberlahngau and from 1121 Count von Gudensberg in Lower Hesse and bearer of the imperial banner . With him, the counts of the Gisonens reached the height of their territorial possessions and bailiwick rights.

Giso IV is first documented in 1099, as the son of Countess Mathilde, who was first married to either Giso II or Giso III. was married. (She was married to Count Adalbert von Saffenberg an der Ahr for the second time , lived after his death in 1109 at Gisonenburg Hollende in the weather north of Marburg and died in 1110.)

Through his marriage to Kunigunde von Bilstein , daughter of Count Rugger II. Von Bilstein and (presumably, but not proven) a daughter of Count Werner III, unknown by name . von Gudensberg , in addition to the rights and possessions inherited from his father, Giso acquired considerable possessions as well as bailiwick rights in the Werra region , in Oberlahngau and on the Rhine - see below. a. the bailiffs over the Hersfeld Abbey and the St. Florin Monastery in Koblenz .

Like Werner IV "von Grüningen" , Count von Gudensberg, with whom he is often mentioned in documents, Giso IV was one of the close followers and confidants of Emperor Heinrich IV. Even after his son Heinrich V's forced abdication At the end of 1105 Giso initially remained loyal to the emperor. In 1114 he went against Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne , who was on the papal side in the investiture controversy, and caused considerable damage to the Grafschaft monastery in the Sauerland . Then he changed sides, like Werner IV. Von Grüningen. Between 1115 and 1118 the two counts gradually offered all imperial estates in their possession in Upper and Lower Hesse, including the Gisonenstammburg Hollende , to Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz , a declared opponent of the investiture controversy. This brought Kurmainz much closer to the goal of ruling a large and as closed territory as possible in Hesse.

When Werner IV. Von Grüningen died on February 22, 1121 without an heir, Giso IV., Presumably due to his marriage to Kunigunde von Bilstein, became his heir: in the same year he was named Giso IV. "Comes de Udenesberc" ( Graf von Gudensberg) mentioned in a document.

Giso's marriage to Kunigunde von Bilstein had two children: Hedwig , who was married to Count (later Landgrave) Ludwig I of Thuringia in 1110 , and Giso V , who inherited his father. Giso IV., Count of Gudensberg, died on March 12, 1122.

It is unclear whether his wife Kunigunde inherited Count Werner through the Bilsteiner claims and thereby brought the county of Maden-Gudensberg and the office of Reich banner bearer to Giso IV. However, this is to be assumed, because after the death of Gisos IV and until his son Giso V. came of age, his stepfather Heinrich Raspe I , who married Kunigunde in 1223, held the office of the imperial banner bearer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Wolf: History of the monastery Grafschaft. In: Schmallenberger Sauerland. Almanac. Year 1990, pp. 140–148, here p. 143.

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SURNAME Giso IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count in Oberlahngau; Count of Gudensberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1070
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1122