Gozmar

The Counts Gozmar were only a fragmentary documented family of Franconian counts in northern Hesse, an Eder and Werra , who were recorded there around 850 and again in the 11th century. They are the presumed ancestors of the Counts of Reichenbach and the Counts of Ziegenhain .

Areas on the upper and middle Eder and especially around today's Bad Wildungen in Northern Hesse were already at least partially owned or under the administration of Count Gozmar in the older post- Carolingian epoch and at the time of the Conradin rule in Hesse. So is documented that in the year 850 a Gozmar his possessions in the seven in the space Frankenberg - Waldeck - Wildungen lying villages Affoldern , lovers , peers , groves , flours , Schreufa and Viermünden theFulda Monastery donated.

After that, a long documentary gap yawns in the history of sex, but it is assumed that a branch of the house probably been around for about 750, the time of the Frankish conquest of the territory under Pippin the Younger , on the castle Reichenbach in today's district Reichenbach of Hessisch Lichtenau was resident and acted there as official count.

Around the middle of the 11th century, probably at the time of Count Gozmar (* around 1020, † after 1062), who in 1062 as a high-Vogt of Fulda is an authentic, they put on the Reichenberg that already in the 5th century a chat tables against Wallenburg the Hermunduren had confessed to a new castle on the basis of a previous castle. Gozmar's son Gozmar I (* around 1045, † after 1117), bailiff of Fulda since 1108, was the first to call himself Count von Reichenbach. After his death the house split with his sons Gozmar II († 1141) and Rudolf I (* around 1070, † after 1123) into an (older) Ziegenhainer and a (younger) Reichenbacher line.

It is not clear whether Gozmar, who was bishop in Osnabrück from 1028 to December 1036, was a scion of this house.

See also

• Gozmar III. (Ziegenhain) (* around 1130; † 1184), from 1168 to 1184 Count von Ziegenhain in Northern Hesse

literature

• Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker Verlag Melsungen, 1971, p. 481.
• Karl E. Demandt: History of the State of Hesse . Johannes Stauda Verlag Kassel, 1980, pp. 175, 204 f., 319.
• Friedhelm Häring and Hans J. Klein (eds.): Hessen - From Edersee to Bergstrasse . DuMont Buchverlag Cologne, 8th edition, 1988, p. 61.
• Martin Röhling: The history of the Counts of Nidda and the Counts of Ziegenhain , Niddaer Geschichtsblätter No. 9, Ed. Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .