Gottfried IV. (Goat grove)

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Gottfried IV von Ziegenhain († November 15, 1250 ) from the family of the Counts of Ziegenhain was count of Ziegenhain and Nidda from 1229 until his death . He ruled together with his younger brother Berthold I (* around 1207, † 1258), with Berthold residing in the Ziegenhain native lands and Gottfried in Nidda .

origin

Gottfried was the eldest son of Count Ludwig I (* around 1167; † after January 17, 1229) von Ziegenhain and his wife Gertrud (* around 1172; † after 1222), the widow of Count Friedrich II. Von Abenberg († 1201 ). Even during Ludwig's lifetime he resided in Nidda , where he practically served as his father's co-regent. In the dispute of the Fulda abbot Heinrich III. von Kronberg (1192–1216) with Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia , Gottfried von Nidda plundered the Fulda areas in the Wetterau .

Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda

After Ludwig I's death, his sons Gottfried IV and Berthold I ruled the two counties inherited from their father nominally jointly, notarizing and sealing them jointly, but de facto divided the rule as Gottfried remained in the county of Nidda and Berthold in the county of Ziegenhain .

In November 1233, the two concluded a protection and defiance alliance with Konrad von Thuringia , the regent of the Ludowinger landgraves in their Hessian parts of the country, against everyone except the Reich . The long smoldering dispute over the in 1185 by the marriage of Lukardis, daughter of Gozmar III. of Ziegenhain, deceased with Conrad's 1229 Uncle Frederick the house Reichenbach -Ziegenhain alienated goods adjusted. Landgrave Konrad enfeoffed the brothers with goods belonging to the deceased Count Friedrich, renounced all rights to Staufenberg Castle and Friedrich's property in Treysa and Ziegenhain, and undertook not to build a castle in the Count's territory or to acquire goods to their detriment. In return, the two counts also renounced the building of castles and the acquisition of goods to the detriment of the landgrave and their rights to the castles Reichenbach and Keseberg . Within a year, the counts should resign their feudal lords - whether the Reich, the archbishops of Mainz , the abbots of Fulda or Hersfeld - and ask them to grant the landgrave of Thuringia a concession. This settlement, however, sealed the final loss of considerable territorial property in the area of ​​the former rule of Wildungen and (after the death of Gottfried III, the last Reichenbach relative) of Reichenbach Castle with all property and accessories there.

Like their father, Gottfried and Berthold were initially partisans of the Staufers . In the decisive phase of the clash between the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the papacy from 1241, however, they moved, together with their brother Burkhart , who from 1234 unified a number of provosts in his hand and became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1247 , to the camp of opponents around the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. von Eppstein , godfather of Berthold's son Gottfried V. The Ziegenhainers were among the counts who elected Heinrich Raspe IV as the antagonist in May 1246; Provost Burkhard became his chancellor.

Marriage and offspring

Gottfried was married to Lukardis (Luitgard) von Dürn ; she was still alive in 1271 when she donated goods to the Seligental monastery. The marriage had three children known by name:

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1189, which is sometimes given for Gottfried, could not be reconciled with Ludwig's marriage to Gertrud, which took place in 1205, unless Gottfried came from an earlier and not documented marriage of Ludwig.
  2. ↑ Ziegenhainer Regesten online No. 659. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ 1234 St. Mariengreden in Mainz , St. Walpurgis in Weilburg , 1235 Petristift in Fritzlar , 1239 Provost St. Marien in Wetzlar
  4. ↑ Röhling. P. 29

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 .
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottfried IV von Ziegenhain (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION reigning Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1250