County of Groitzsch

The county of Groitzsch in the Leipzig lowland bay was the domain of the Wiprecht von Groitzsch family in the first half of the 12th century, with the town of Groitzsch and Wiprechtsburg as the center. When the male line died out in 1135, the county, with the exception of the castle, became the property of the Wettins . In 1460, by merging the County of Groitzsch (Pflege Groitzsch) with the Margravial-Meissnian Pegau Gleitsamt, the office of Pegau was created .

Tribe list

1. Svetibor
2. Wulf
   1. Wiprecht I., in Gau Balcsem ( Balsamgau ), ⚭ Sigena von Leinungen , † between October 24, 1110 and 1121/23, heiress of Morungen and Gatersleben , daughter of Goswin the elder Count von Leinungen , widow of Friedrich I. von Pettendorf- Burglengenfeld , as widow 3rd abbess of Vitzenburg (today part of Querfurt )
      1. Otto, go to Byzantium
      2. Hermann, goes to Russia
      3. Wiprecht II von Groitzsch , † May 22, 1124 in Pegau , 1084/1113 and from 1115 in Nisangau and Gau Budissin , as well as in the Elbe Valley between Pirna and Dresden , 1106 count, 1118 burgrave of Magdeburg and Vogt von Stift Neuwerk in Halle , 1123 (Titular) Margrave of Meißen and Niederlausitz , founded Pegau Monastery in 1091 , and in 1104 Lausigk Monastery , buried in Pegau Monastery; ⚭ I around 1085 Judith of Böhmen , heiress of Nisangau and the country of Budissin , † December 9, 1108, daughter of King Vratislav II , ⚭ II 1110 Kunigunde von Weimar , † June 8, 1140, heiress of Beichlingen , daughter of Count Otto I. , Margrave of Meissen, widow of Prince Jaropolk Pyotr Isjaslavich of Vladimir and Turau ( Rurikids ) and Count Kuno of Beichlingen ( Northeim )
         1. (I) Wiprecht III., † January 27, probably 1116, attested in 1104, captured by Emperor Heinrich V in 1110 , buried in Pegau , ⚭ 1110 Kunigunde von Beichlingen , daughter of Count Kuno and Kunigunde von Weimar ( Northeim ), she married II 1116/1117 Diepold III. von Vohburg , † April 8, 1146 ( Rapotonen )
         2. (I) Heinrich , † 1135, 1124 Burgrave of Magdeburg , 1131 Margrave of the Lausitz region , ⚭ Bertha von Gleissberg († after 1137), daughter of the reginbodone Dietmar von Selbold-Gelnhausen
         3. (I) Bertha von Morungen , † June 16, 1143, heiress of Groitzsch Castle, ⚭ Dedo IV. († December 26, 1124) Count von Wettin and Groitzsch
      4. Daughter ⚭ Heinrich von Leinungen
      5. Daughter ⚭ Werner the Elder from Veltheim , 1087

Count von Groitzsch from the House of Wettin

• Dedo V. der Feiste , † 1190, 1144 in Groitzsch Castle , 1156 Count von Groitzsch
• Dietrich, † 1207, his son
• Conrad II of Landsberg , † 1210, his brother
• Dietrich the oppressed , † 1221, nephew Dedos
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literature

• Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , I.1 (2005)

used therein:

• Otto Posse: The Margraves of Meissen and the House of Wettin. Leipzig 1881,
• Arthur Bierbach (editor): Document book of the city of Halle, its donors and monasteries, part 1 (806-1300). Magdeburg 1930 (Historical Sources of the Province of Saxony and the Free State of Anhalt, New Series, Volume 10)
• Helmut Lötzke: The burgraves of Magdeburg from the Querfurt house, Diss. Phil., Greifswald 1950
• Herbert Helbig : The Wettin Estates, Münster-Cologne 1955 (Central German Research 4)
• Hans Patze : The Pegauer Annalen, the king's elevation of Wratislaws of Bohemia and the beginnings of the city of Pegau, in: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany 12, 1963
• Hans E. Schultze: aristocratic rule and sovereignty. Cologne-Graz 1963 (Central German Research 23)
• Willi Hoppe, ed. by Herbert Ludat: The Mark Brandenburg, Wettin and Magdeburg. , Cologne-Graz 1965
• Lutz Fenske: Nobility opposition and church reform movement in eastern Saxony. Göttingen 1977 (publications of the Max Planck Institute for History 47)