Gottfried I. (goat grove)

Gottfried I. von Ziegenhain (* 1099 , † 1168 ) from the dynasty of the Counts of Reichenbach was 1141–1168 Count von Wegebach-Ziegenhain and the first of his house to call himself Count von Ziegenhain . He was probably a son of Count Gozmar II von Reichenbach ; however, this has not been clearly clarified, and he may also have been a son of his brother Rudolf I von Reichenbach .

Gottfried's ancestors, the Counts of Reichenbach (near Hessisch Lichtenau in Northern Hesse), had been bailiffs of the Fulda Abbey at least since the middle of the 11th century and in this function had acquired extensive bailiwick and allodial property in the Ziegenhain and Wegebach area , which they knew how to expand with determination. While Rudolf I von Reichenbach (* around 1070, † after 1123) inherited the ancestral lands of the family at Werra and Meißner after the death of Gozmar I and resided in Reichenbach, Gozmar II († 1141) received his father's property in the Ziegenhain area and therefore relocated his residence from Reichenberg Castle to Wegebach near Ziegenhain.

After the death Gozmars II. In 1141 it inherited Gottfried I. At first he lived in ways Bach, but built himself in 1144 between an already existing for 950 keep a new residence and an old castle in the round just one kilometer away Ziegenhain. Since then he and his descendants have called themselves Counts of Ziegenhain ("Cigenhagen"), occasionally until 1220 also "Counts of Wegebach" or "Counts of Ziegenhain and Wegebach". From 1141 to at least 1158, but probably until 1162 (when his cousin Heinrich I "Albus" von Reichenbach was recorded as the bailiff of Fulda), he also held the influential and profitable position of the bailiff of Fulda.

Gottfried's brother Poppo II inherited both uncles Poppo I († 1156), who, as the successor to the eldest brother, Rudolf I, who died in 1123, inherited the Reichenbacher part of the family's property and received Hollende Castle as a Mainz fief when the weather was blowing north of Marburg would have. Like his uncle, Poppo II resided as a feudal man of the Archdiocese of Mainz on the Hollende, the former ancestral seat of the Gisonen , and called himself Count von Hollende from 1166 to 1170. At the same time, like Poppo I, he was burgrave of Amöneburg Castle in Mainz .

progeny

Gottfried had three children:

• Gozmar III. (* around 1130; † 1184)
• Rudolf II. (* Around 1132; † 1188)
• Kunigunde (* around 1136, † after 1189), ∞ Count Walram I of Nassau

Gottfried's successor as Count von Ziegenhain was his son Gozmar III, who died on July 26, 1184 when the Erfurt latrine fell. He was followed by his brother Rudolf II.

literature

• Martin Röhling: The history of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain, Niddaer Geschichtsblätter No. 9, published by Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005 ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .