Gottfried III. (Sponheim)
Gottfried III. (* before 1183; † 1218 ) was Count of the County of Sponheim .
Live and act
Gottfried III. was probably born in 1175. The exact circumstances of his relatives (father, brothers) are unclear. In 1202 he married Adelheid von Sayn († 1263). Adelheid was one of the two sisters and heiresses of the last Count of Sayn Heinrich III. After his death in 1246/47 parts of the county of Sayn fell to Gottfried's son Johann I , the founder of the Sponheim-Starkenburg line. Gottfried built the Kauzenburg near Kreuznach and therefore came into conflict with the Speyer monastery . In 1218 Gottfried took part in the fifth crusade and lost his life in the process. His widow Adelheid von Sayn married Eberhard IV von Eberstein , owner of the Stauf rule and brother of the Speyer bishop Konrad von Eberstein († 1245). In 1241 the couple donated Rosenthal Abbey (Palatinate) .
progeny
- Johann I , founder of the Starkenburg line (rear county) and heir to Sayn
- Heinrich , founder of the Sponheim-Heinsberg line
- Simon I. , founder of the Kreuznach line (Vordere Grafschaft)
- Gottfried, provost of St. Georg in Cologne and St. Cassius in Bonn
- Walram, Canon in Cologne
literature
- Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution . Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 ( [1] - online at Google Books).
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria. Neustadt an der Haardt 1836, p. 275 u. 276; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Genealogical page about the person
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Gottfried II. |
Count of Sponheim 1195-1218 |
Johann I in Sponheim-Starkenburg (rear county) Simon I in Sponheim-Kreuznach (front county) |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gottfried III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Sponheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1183 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1218 |