Metz county

The county of Metz emerged from the Franconian Metzgau . Already in the 9th century the transition from the Carolingian county to the hereditary feudal county took place. Two periods of Counts in Metz can be distinguished: it seems that the noble family of Matfriede had a title of Count conferred by the king, while the Folmare and Dagsburg were fiefdoms of the Bishop of Metz.

The appointment of the first representative from the family of the Matfriede, Adalhard II. , As Count of Metz seems to be with the takeover of power by Ludwig III. to be related. When the empire was divided in 865, he was assigned his partial empire with the East Franconian franc and became engaged to Adalhard's sister in the same year. He had to break the engagement at his father's insistence. After, however, with the Treaty of Meerssen in 870 the eastern Lotharingien with Metz came under his rule, Adalhard appears as Count of Metz.

The county of Metz stayed with the Matfrieden for almost two centuries . When the Matfriede in 1047 by Emperor Heinrich III. received the title of Duke of Lorraine , they no longer carried the title of Count.

The next bearers of the title of Graf von Metz came from that line of Folmare, which initially resided in Lunéville , later also in Hüneburg and Hombourg and emerged as the founder and governor of the monasteries of St. Rémy (Lunéville), Lixheim and Beaupré . It is obvious that there were family ties between Folmar V and Theoger , the Reform Abbot of St. Georgen and Bishop of Metz.

After the Folmare in the male line died out, the title in the female line fell to the Counts of Dagsburg. After the death of Gertrud von Dagsburg in 1225, the bishopric of Metz moved into the county of Metz as an extinct fief after the fiefs originally assigned to the county of Dagsburg ( Herrenstein , Türkstein , Saarburg and Saaralben ).

List of the Counts of Metz

825-841: Adalbert of the family of hattonids testifies 825 X 841 May 13 in the Battle of the Wörnitz, Count of Metz , dux Austrasiorum
842–862: Buvinus von Vienne, Count of Metz (attested in 842/862), son of the West Franconian Count Richard von Amiens, lay abbot of Gorze , brother-in-law of King Lothar II , namesake of the Buvinids

Matfriede

<April 11, 882–890: Adalhard II of Metz († January 2, 890), son of Adalhard , the seneschal of Emperor Ludwig the Pious and son-in-law of Matfried II, Count in the Eifelgau , fought with the bishops on April 11, 882 Wala von Metz and Bertolf von Trier in the battle of Remich against the Vikings
??? - 910: Gerhard I († 910), his son, Count im Metzgau, killed King Zwentibold on August 13, 900 in the Battle of Susteren and married his widow, Oda of Saxony, daughter of Duke Otto the Illustrious ( Liudolfinger )

926–930: Matfried († 930), his brother, 926 Graf im Metzgau; ∞ Lantsind, daughter of Count Radald, sister of Bishop Dado of Verdun

930–944: Adalbert I (~ * 900, † 944), his son, married to Luitgard von Aachen (* 900), daughter of Count Wigerichs of Aachen and the Kunigunde of Lorraine.

944–963: Gerhard II., 963 Count von Metz, Vogt von Remiremont , grandson of Gerhard I, son of Gottfried von Jülich and Ermentrude

963–982: Richard, attested in 968/986, possible son of Count Matfried, Count of Metz

982-1022: Gerhard III. († 1024/25), Count of Metz and in Saargau, son or nephew of Richard; ∞ Eva, daughter of Siegfried I of Luxemburg and niece of Empress Kunigunde [55] and [56] . He stood with the Luxembourg brothers by marriage and with the bishops Theodoric II of Metz and Adalbero of Trier in opposition to Emperor Heinrich II in the 1008-1017 Moselle feud over the occupation of the archbishopric of Trier. In a joint fight with his nephew, the later Emperor Konrad , against Gottfried I of Lower Lorraine , his only son was taken prisoner and died.

1022-1033: Adalbert II. (* Before 974, † 1033 in Bouzonville ), brother of Gerhard III., Donates the Bouzonville Abbey ; ∞ before 979, Judith / Jutta "von Öhningen", 980/1032 attested, † July 27, 1033/38, daughter of Duke Conrad I of Swabia , widow of NN, probably from Rheinfelden , buried in Bouzonville ( Konradiner ) [58 ] and [59]

1033-1045: Gerhard IV. († 1044/1045), son of Adalbert II.

Folmare - Lords of Lunéville – Hombourg

The noble Berta and her husband Folmar I, Count of Metz as well as Count im Bliesgau and Saargau , hand over the Rodena royal estate as a pious foundation to the Mettlach Monastery , gold engraving on the back of the Mettlach storage library from the 13th century

982-995: Folmar I. Graf im Bliesgau; ∞ Bertha
995–1026: Folmar II., († 1026 or later), founder of St. Rémy in Lunéville, Count im Bliesgau; ∞ gerberga; († 1051 ?, Count of Metz?)
1029–1056: Gottfried I, † <1056, (Count of Metz? And) Vogt of St. Rémy (Lunéville) (1029–1052)
1056-1075: Folmar IV., Count of Metz (and Hombourg ?, † 1075?) 1055/1075; ∞ Suanehilde
1075–1111: Folmar V, † June 25, 1111, Count of Metz, Hüneburg and Lunéville, Domvogt of Metz, founder of Lixheim Monastery in 1107
1111–1145: Folmar VI., Count of Metz and Hombourg , † 1145, established Beaupré Monastery , ∞ Mathilde, daughter of Albert I of Egisheim, Count of Dagsburg , and Ermensinde of Luxembourg
1145–1159: Hugo, Count of Metz (1157) and Hombourg (1147), son of Folmar V, ∞ Kunigunde, daughter of the wild count Gerhard, the marriage remained without heirs
1145–1171: Folmar VII, brother of Hugo, † 1171 or later, Count of Lunéville 1160

Etichones - Counts of Dagsburg

1171–1178: (Heinrich-) Hugo X., Count of Dagsburg and Metz, attested in 1137/78, nephew Folmar VI.
1178–1212: Albert II., 1175 Count von Dagsburg, † 1212, son of Hugos X.
1212–1225: Gertrud, * 1205/06, † before 1225, daughter of Albert II, 1223 Countess of Metz and Moha; ∞ (I) At the end of 1215 Theobald I (1213 Duke of Lorraine , 1216 Count of Dagsburg and Metz, † 1220), the marriage remained childless; ∞ (II) 1220 Theobald VI. of Champagne , 1223 marriage dissolved childless; ∞ (III) 1223 Simon von Saarbrücken , Count von Leiningen, marriage childless.

Web links

The Count's House “Metz - Lunéville - Blieskastel”. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .

COUNT of BLIESGAU, COUNT of BLIESCASTEL, COUNT of HÜNEBURG. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, accessed September 15, 2016 .

COUNT OF METZ (FOLMAR). Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, accessed September 15, 2016 .

Remarks

↑ Note the note under remarks in the linked article!
↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. First section. AG. In: JS Versch, JG Gruber (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts edited in alphabetical order by the authors mentioned . 29th part. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1837, p. 19 ( google.de ).

[1] Note the note under remarks in the linked article!

[2] General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. First section. AG. In: JS Versch, JG Gruber (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts edited in alphabetical order by the authors mentioned . 29th part. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1837, p. 19 ( google.de ).