Heinrich I. (Hoya)

Heinrich I von Hoya († 1235 , buried in Bücken ) was the ruling Count of Hoya from 1202 to 1235 .

Live and act

Heinrich von Hoya was the first documented count of Hoya. His father was the "Friese" from Rüstringen , whose real name was never known. With the support of the Archbishops of Bremen , he took advantage of the power vacuum created after the fall of Henry the Lion and settled in the then already existing town of Hoya between 1181 and 1190 and built a castle on an island in the Weser.

During the German contest for the throne , Heinrich was a supporter of the Hohenstaufen . During the Stedinger War he was an ally of Bremen's Archbishop Gerhard zur Lippe . As early as 1213 Heinrich had inflicted a defeat on the Stedinger in a battle near Hilgermissen . During his reign, the noblemen of Hodenberg were expelled from 1206, as well as the purchase of the County of Stumpenhusen (goods, seals and coats of arms) in 1202 and the acquisition of the Free County of Nienburg from the Counts of Roden in 1215 .

With the round seal that he used in 1215, 1219 and 1220, with the inscription "SIGILLVM HENRICI DE STVMPENHVS", he exchanged his presumably not very sonorous - unknown - family name for a more significant one and made himself a "Stumpenhusen", which is possibly even took over the title of Count, which Wedekind von Stumpenhusen († 1185) had led since 1181. With this, as well as with the choice of his wife Richenza, daughter of the important Count Bernard II of WÖLPE, he also created the social conditions for the rise of the HOYA house.

Heinrich was buried in the Bücken collegiate church.

progeny

With Richenza von Wölpe († 1227), daughter of Count Bernhard II von Wölpe , he had the following offspring:

• Adelheid, canoness in Bassum
• Bernhard († 1243 ), Canon in Bremen and Probst in Bücken
• Burchard († 1294 ), Canon in Verden
• Gerhard († 1269 ), 1251–1269 Bishop of Verden
• Ermengard ∞ Konrad von Wahnebergen
• Heinrich († 1290 ), followed Heinrich I. 1237-1290 as ruling count
• Jutta ∞ Ludolf von Hallermund
• Otto, Canon in Verden ( Otto I, Bishop of Minden ) (?)
• Richenza ∞ Wedekind von Schalksberg
• Wedekind († 1261 ), 1253–1261 Bishop of Minden

literature

• Heinrich Gade : Historical-geographical-statistical description of the counties Hoya and Diepholz. Nienburg 1901.
• Wilhelm Hodenberg (ed.): Hoyer document book. Hanover 1848-1856.
• Bernd Ulrich Hucker : The Counts of Hoya. Hoya 1993.
• Museum Nienburg: The counties Bruchhausen, Diepholz, Hoya and Wölpe. Nienburg 2000.