Gottfried von Vaihingen

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Vaihingen and Calw

Gottfried von Vaihingen (* before 1170; † 1234 ) was a Count of Calw by birth , who named himself Count of Vaihingen after the marriage of a Vaihinger heir and expanded the village of the same name into the town of Vaihingen an der Enz .

biography

Count Gottfried von Calw, son of Adalbert of Calw V. married, in 1189 an heiress of the last count Egino of Vaihingen and named after the inheritance usually after Vaihingen . He was at the side of Emperor Heinrich VI for ten years . and his brother Philipp on the way, whom he also accompanied to Italy. After the early death of his first wife, he was married to Berta von Firmian on his way back from Italy in Bolzano in 1198 . From 1199 Count Gottfried had evidently withdrawn from imperial politics, since in future he would not appear in documents either with the Staufers or with the rival king Otto von Braunschweig . It is possible that from now on he cared more about his own people around Vaihingen and Firmian in South Tyrol.

Vaihingen (1832) between the Kaltenstein and the Peterskirche: 600 years after its foundation, the structure of the city had changed only insignificantly

Around 1230 he is said to have laid the town of Vaihingen an der Enz between the castle Vaihingen on the Kaltenstein, already mentioned in 1096, and the village settlement near the Peterskirche .

Document mentions

  • February 8, 1189: King Henry VI. confirmed in Andernach a contract between Archbishop Philipp of Cologne and his faithful Heinrich von Bürresheim, the u. a. Count "Godefridus de Veingen " attests.
  • June 6, 1192: Kraft von Boxberg gives in the presence of Emperor Heinrich VI. in Würzburg goods and income to the Johanneshospital in Jerusalem. Count "Gotfridus de Weigen" testifies to the act of donation.
  • August 24, 1192: Emperor Heinrich VI. In Weisenau near Mainz, the Echternach Abbey confirms its rights and freedoms, as it had previously possessed, and determines that it should remain under the protection of the empire under exemption from everyone, including the royal service, and should never be alienated from the empire. Count "Godefridus de Veingen" is among the witnesses.
  • January 28, 1194: Emperor Heinrich VI. confirms in Würzburg the donation of the castle and the village of Iptingen including the church and goods to Wiernsheim , Henkelberg and Wurmberg by the noble free Ulrich to the Maulbronn monastery. Count “Godefridus de Veingen” is a witness.
  • 1196: Philip, Duke of Tuscany “restituted” in Gonzaga to the abbot of the monastery at Polirone . Count “Godefridus de Veingen” is the first-mentioned witness. On May 3, 1196, Count Gottfried was again the first-mentioned witness for Duke Philip in Arezzo .
  • September 25, 1197: Duke Philipp "invests" in the presence of Gebhard de Roup (Völs), Warmund von Rasen, Bertold, Arnold de Livo and Jacob von Kaltern, Count Gottfried in Bozen with Berta, the daughter of Baldwin of Firmian .
  • June 29, 1198: King Philip notarizes the friendship bond entered into with King Philip of France , in such a way that he wants to help him against King Richard of England , his nephew Otto of Poitou , who appears as an anti-king, against Count Baldwin of Flanders and the Archbishop Adolf of Cologne. "Gotfr. von Vaihingen ”testifies to this pact.
  • February 18, 1199: King Philipp confirms the fiefdom of Friedrich and Otto von Borgo San Donino because of their loyalty to his father and brother in Speyer , which his father had given them in accordance with his father's privilege of December 27, 1174. Count “Godefridus de Veingen” is a witness.
  • Around 1230, Count Gottfried von Vaihingen freed the court of the monks from Herrenalb in Dietenhausen from its bailiff, donated money to maintain lights and wax candles in their church and allowed the court to share the common land under the ban of Ellmendingen .
  • In 1231 the knight Rugger von Stockheim donated the patronage rights of the church in Gemmrigheim , formerly his fiefdom from Count Gottfried von Vaihingen, but now his own, to the church in Backnang .
  • In February 1232 the abbot Gozwin and his convent in Maulbronn acquired the church, bailiwick, goods and accessories and people in Wimsheim from Count Gottfried von Vaihingen and his son and their heirs . King Heinrich VII confirmed the purchase on October 2, 1232 and promised never to sell the bailiwick of this place.
  • In 1233, at the request of his servant Berthold von Flehingen , Count Gottfried von Vaihingen transferred his property in Bruchsal to the church in Speyer in order to lend it to the Maulbronn monastery in return for an annual perpetual fruitfulness .

Year of death

Manfred Scheck considers him to be the "famous Count of Vaihingen", known without a first name, who fell in Rome in 1234 during the suppression of the Roman uprising. According to Gerhard Fritz, however, he did not die until 1246 at an advanced age. Gottfried's son and successor, Konrad I von Vaihingen , already recorded documents with his father in 1232, was in Italy in 1234 and then always acted autonomously.

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literature

  • Lothar Behr, Otto-Heinrich Elias , Manfred Scheck, Ernst Eberhard Schmidt (ed.): History of the city of Vaihingen an der Enz . Ipa, Vaihingen 2001.
  • Manfred Scheck: The founding of the city of Vaihingen . In: Series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz , Volume 6 (1989), pp. 17–55.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Scheck: The foundation of the city of Vaihingen . In: Series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz , Volume 6 (1989), p. 32.
  2. ↑ Manfred Scheck: The foundation of the city of Vaihingen . In: Series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz , Volume 6 (1989), p. 34.
  3. ^ Regesta Imperii (RI) IV, 3 n. 80, RI online .
  4. ^ RI IV, 3 n.84, RI online .
  5. ^ RI IV, 3 n.221a, RI online .
  6. ^ RI IV, 3 n.243, RI online .
  7. ↑ WUB Volume II, No. 487, p. 301 WUB online .
  8. ^ RI V, 1.1n.5, RI Online .
  9. ^ RI V, 1.1 n.10, RI online .
  10. ↑ WUB Volume II, No. 502, pp. 320-321 WUB online .
  11. ^ RI V, 1.1 n.14, RI online .
  12. ^ RI V, 1.1 n.18, RI online .
  13. ^ RI V, 1.1 n.22, RI online .
  14. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 772, p. 263 WUB online .
  15. ↑ WUB Volume IV, No. N112, pp. 409-410 WUB online
  16. ↑ LABW, HStA Stuttgart, Altwürtt. Archives, district authorities of the church property and the university / 1095-1818 monastery and monastery property administrations / 1095-1807 Maulbronn / 1147-1806 documents 1.2 Official locations 1.2.6 Wimsheim LABW online .
  17. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 810, p. 305. WUB online
  18. ↑ WUB Volume III., No. 819, p. 315. WUB online
  19. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 807, p. 302. WUB online
  20. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 809, p. 304. WUB online
  21. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 805, pp. 300-301. WUB online
  22. ↑ WUB Volume III, No. 827, pp. 321-322. WUB online
  23. ↑ Manfred Scheck: The foundation of the city of Vaihingen . In: Series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz , Volume 6 (1989), p. 34.
  24. ^ Gerhard Fritz: Noble gentlemen. The Counts of Vaihingen, their village and their city from the 11th to the 14th century . In: Lothar Behr, Otto-Heinrich Elias , Manfred Scheck, Ernst Eberhard Schmidt (Hrsg.): History of the city of Vaihingen an der Enz . Ipa, Vaihingen 2001, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried von Vaihingen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottfried von Calw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graf im Enzgau and founder of the city of Vaihingen an der Enz
DATE OF BIRTH before 1170
DATE OF DEATH 1234