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Gottfried II von Ziegenhain (* 1156 ; † around 1200) from the family of the Counts of Ziegenhain was the ruling Count of Ziegenhain from 1189 until his death .

origin

Gottfried was a son of Count Rudolf II. (* Around 1132, † after 1188) von Ziegenhain and his wife Mechthild, the only sister and, after his death, heiress of Count Berthold II. Von Nidda .

Count of Ziegenhain

After his father's death in 1188 or at the beginning of 1189, Gottfried succeeded him as ruling count and as Vogt of Fulda Abbey (attested in 1197), an office that was hereditary in the Ziegenhain family. Little is known of his reign, and even the time of his death is not recorded. From 1195 he is found together with his younger brother Ludwig I (* around 1167, † 1229) as a witness in various documents, but as early as 1200 Ludwig and their mother Mechthild testify without Gottfried. (Two other brothers had entered the clergy, Giso as a canon at the Petristift in Fritzlar , Rudolf III as a canon in Hildesheim and provost at the Petersstift in Goslar . Another brother, Gozmar V, only appears as a witness long after Gottfried's death in documents of his brother Ludwig.) Gottfried thus seems to have died in 1200 or shortly before. He was followed as ruling Count von Ziegenhain by his brother Ludwig I, who only then married Gertrud (* around 1172; † after 1222), the widow of Count Friedrich II. Von Abenberg († 1201).

Marriage and offspring

Gottfried was married to Heilwig zur Lippe (* around 1186, † after 1244), a daughter of Bernhard II zur Lippe .

From this marriage came the only descendant known by name, Rudolf IV (* 1195 at the latest, † 1250), who was still very young when his father died and therefore did not become his successor. He seems to have lived on his inherited allod possession . From 1222 he appears several times as a witness in documents from his uncle Ludwig. In January 1243, he gave all his goods and legacies bequeathed to him by his parents to vassals, ministerials, knights, servants, squires and maidservants, free and serfs, castles and homesteads, towns and villages, tithes and everything else to his cousin Berthold I von Ziegenhain and his son Gottfried V. In 1246 he confirmed to the Haina Monastery (Aulesburg) all donations to tithe and other possessions made by his late father Gottfried II, his uncle Ludwig I and his sons Gottfried IV and Berthold I. In 1250 he then certified as being different than his cousin Berthold I. the German religious house Sachsenhausen 2 pounds ground rents in Gross-Gerau as Seelgerät for his brother Gottfried IV. And his relatives Rudolf IV gave..

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Count Gottfried II and Ludwig I testify to the repurchase of some goods by Abbot Heinrich von Fulda; Regesta of the Counts of Ziegenhain, Regest no. 177. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain, No. 188. Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
3. ↑ Donation of the inheritance of Count Rudolf IV to Count Berthold I and his son Gottfried V, Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain, No. 698. Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
4. ↑ Confirmation of earlier donations by the Counts of Ziegenhain for the Monastery of Haina, Regesten der Grafen von Ziegenhain, No. 236. Regests of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ Seelgerätstiftung Graf Bertholds I to the Deutschordenshaus Sachsenhausen, Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain, No. 246. Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

literature

• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. (Niddaer Geschichtsblätter booklet 9) Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .