County Mömpelgard

The County of Mömpelgard ( French Comté de Montbéliard ) was a secular territory on the middle reaches of the Doubs in what is now France, which originally belonged to the Free County of Burgundy and was part of Württemberg for around 400 years from the late 14th century . The eponymous capital of the county was the city of Mömpelgard , whose name was derived from the castle Mons Beliardus (French Montbéliard ).

history

First mentioned as a county in the 10th century, the area fell to the Scarponnois family through the marriage of Ermentrude of Burgundy, the youngest daughter of the Free Count Wilhelm I , with Dietrich von Mousson . Dietrich's father Ludwig had been castellanus von Mömpelgard as early as 1042 . By inheritance, the Burgundian noble family Montfaucon took over the rule in 1163, which it held until 1397 - with an interruption by the houses of Neuchâtel and Burgundy-Ivrea .

At the end of the 13th century Mömpelgard became imperial immediately , but the Count of Burgundy retained suzerainty over the dominions of Granges , Clerval and Passavant .

With the death of Count Stephan von Mömpelgard , the male line of the Montfaucon family died out, and the inheritance fell to Stephen's granddaughter Henriette . The Württemberg Count Eberhard III. seized the opportunity to enlarge the domain of his house and on November 13, 1397 betrothed his nine-year-old son Eberhard IV. to Henriette, who was also underage. Until the marriage of the two in 1407, he took over the government of the County of Mömpelgard and some of the associated lords on the left bank of the Rhine, which were summarized under the term Württemberg-Mömpelgard . Mömpelgard remained part of Württemberg until it was ceded to France in 1796.

Counts of Mömpelgard

House of Burgundy Ivrea

• ??? - 1105 Ermentrude of Burgundy, daughter of Wilhelm I , Count of Burgundy ; ∞ with Dietrich von Mousson , Count in Altkirch and Pfirt, from 1093 Count von Bar

House Scarponnois

• 1065–1105 ( iure uxoris ) Dietrich I.
  • 1105–1163 Dietrich II.

House Montfaucon

Coat of arms of the counts from the House of Montfaucon.

• 1163–1195 Amadeus II of Montfaucon , son of Sophie von Mömpelgard, daughter of Dietrich II, and Richard II of Montfaucon
  • 1195-1227 Richard III.
    • 1227-1283 Dietrich III.

House Neuchâtel and House Burgundy-Ivrea

• 1283–1317 Guillemette von Neuchâtel, daughter of Amadeus von Neuchâtel, grandson of Dietrich III, and Jordanna von Arberg; ∞ Reinald of Burgundy
• 1283–1322 (iure uxoris) Reinald von Burgund, son of Hugo von Chalon and Adelheid von Meranien
  • 1322-1338 Othenin; because of mental illness under the tutelage of his uncle Hugo

House Montfaucon

• 1338–1367 Heinrich I of Montfaucon; ∞ with Agnes, daughter of Rainald von Burgund and Guillemette von Neuenburg
  • 1367–1397 Stephan of Montfaucon
    • 1397–1444 Henriette von Mömpelgard , granddaughter of Stephan von Montfaucon; ∞ with Eberhard IV , Count of Württemberg

House of Württemberg

see Württemberg-Mömpelgard (county)

literature

• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
• Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln , Volume II (1984) Plate 60, Volume I.2 (1999) Plate 226, Volume XV (1993) Plate 6, and Volume XI (1986) Plate 134-135