Hedwig von Gudensberg

Hedwig von Gudensberg (* 1098 , † 1148 ) from the Gisonen dynasty was the heir to Giso IV. (* Around 1070; † March 12, 1122), Count in Hesse or Count von Gudensberg , and his wife Kunigunde von Bilstein , Countess von Gudensberg († 1138/40).

Hedwig had been married to the later Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia , son of Count Ludwig the Springer , since 1110 , and after the death of her brother Giso V in 1137, the Gaugrafschaft Hessen and the other extensive estates of the Gisonen came to the Thuringian Ludowinger . (Hedwig's mother, Kunigunde von Bilstein, married Ludwig's brother Heinrich Raspe I after Gisos IV's death in 1122 and thus became her daughter's sister-in-law.)

Through the marriage of Hedwig, the early death of her brother Giso V, and the second marriage of her mother Kunigunde, the Thuringian counts acquired a threefold and extensive inheritance: the Gisonian property north of Marburg with the Stiftsvogtei Wetter , the Bilstein inheritance of Kunigunde south of Marburg and the bailiwick over the Hersfeld Abbey , and the entire Hessian property of Count Werner , who died out in 1121 and inherited by Giso IV and Kunigunde , in particular the county of Maden-Gudensberg with the bailiwicks of Fritzlar Abbey and the Hasungen and Breitenau monasteries .

In 1128 Hedwig gave birth to her son Ludwig II , who after the death of his father in 1140 at the age of twelve was taken over by Konrad III. received the fiefdom over Thuringia. Hedwig was regent until he came of age.

Hedwig founded the Ahnaberg women's choir monastery in 1148, while her second son Heinrich Raspe II. As Count von Gudensberg administered the Hessian parts of the Ludowingers . From the settlement that developed between this monastery and the former Franconian royal court "Chasalla" (from Latin Castellum = castle) on the Fuldaufer , the fortified town of Cassel soon emerged , which became the residence of the Landgraves of Hesse in the next century .

Web links

• Genealogy Middle Ages: Hedwig von Gudensberg ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )