Gottfried von Calw

Gottfried von Calw († February 6, 1131 ) was Count of Calw and from 1113 to 1126 Count Palatine of the Rhine .

He was the younger son of Count Adalbert II of Calw and Wiltrudis of Lorraine, a daughter of Duke Gottfried the Bearded . In 1095 he became Vogt of Hirsau and succeeded his father in Calw when he retired to the monastery in 1094/95. Gottfried was initially a follower of Emperor Henry IV , but from 1105, the year of the throne dispute between Henry IV and his son Heinrich V , one of the latter's most important helpers and advisers. On Henry V's first Italian campaign in 1111, Gottfried von Calw took part in the negotiations of San Maria in Turri and Ponte Mammolo , and later in the negotiations in Mouzon in 1119 and in those on the Worms Concordat in 1122, which he also signed.

After the death of Count Palatine Siegfried von Ballenstedt on March 9, 1113 as a result of an attack by members of the imperial party, Gottfried is already recorded as his successor on April 6, 1113.

A year later, his appointment led him to disputes in Lorraine and with the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken and his official brother in Trier, Bruno von Lauffen . Heinrich V made Gottfried one of his deputies in Germany together with the Hohenstaufen Friedrich and Konrad von Schwaben before his second Italian move in 1116 , which Gottfried used to turn against Adalbert. The death of Henry V in 1125 and the election of Lothar III. Gottfried's position towards the new king was weakened: the palatinate was not withdrawn from him, but with Wilhelm von Ballenstedt , Siegfried's son, who was still underage when his father died, a second count palatine, for whom he was from 1126 to 1129 officiated as a guardian and to whom he then had to hand over the Palatinate County.

Gottfried was married to Liutgard von Zähringen , a daughter of Duke Berthold II , not to be confused with Liutgard von Zähringen , the daughter of Berthold I von Zähringen . He had at least three children with her:

• Gottfried, † before 1131/32
• Liutgard; ∞ NN Verli, knight
• Uta von Schauenburg , † 1196, known as "Duchess von Schauenburg", founded the Allerheiligen Monastery in 1191 ; ∞ before January 1133 Welf VI. , * between December 16, 1114 and December 15, 1116, † December 15, 1191 in Memmingen , 1129 attested, 1147 crusader, founded 1147 Steingaden Monastery , 1152 called Welf of Ravensburg, 1152–1172 Duke of Spoleto and Margrave of Tuscien , 1152 Vogt von Zwiefalten , buried in Steingaden;

literature

• Peter Fuchs:  Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 665 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Kurz : Adalbert and Gottfried von Calw , in: Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte XXIV, 1965, issue 2, pp. 241–308.

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried von Ballenstedt	Count Palatine near the Rhine 1113–1126 / 1129	Wilhelm von Ballenstedt