Heinrich Raspe I.

Heinrich Raspe I (* around 1095, † 1130 ) from the Ludowing family succeeded Werner von Grüningen as Imperial Storm Ensign and Count von Gudensberg .

origin

Heinrich Raspe I was the third son of Count Ludwig der Springer and his wife Adelheid von Stade and the brother of Ludwig I , who was raised to Landgrave of Thuringia in 1131 .

Territory and power increase

In 1123 Heinrich married Kunigunde von Bilstein , the widow of the Hessian count Giso IV von Gudensberg . Because of this and the proximity of his house to the later Emperor Lothar III. , who also raised Heinrich's brother Ludwig to Landgrave of Thuringia in 1131 , he obtained the office of Reichssturmfähnrichs ( signifer regis ), which had previously come to the Gisonen as the inheritance of Count Werner von Grüningen with the County of Maden / Gudensberg . Raspe's underage stepson Giso V. could not yet exercise the office.

Kunigunde administered the Hessian counties of her underage son Giso V as regent , and Heinrich was first mentioned in 1130 as Count von Gudensberg . He was murdered in the same year and buried in the Reinhardsbrunn monastery .

Due to Heinrich's marriage with Kunigunde and that of his brother Ludwig with Kunigunde's daughter Hedwig von Gudensberg , after the death of the last Gisonne, Kunigunde's son Giso V (1137), and that of his mother (1140) the extensive Gisonian and Bilsteiner possessions and fiefdoms fell to the Ludowingers, who were able to expand their domain to large parts of Hesse.

literature

• Hilmar Schwarz: The Ludowingers. The rise and fall of the first Thuringian landgrave family . Eisenach 1993
• Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgraves . Bussert & Stadeler publishing house, Quedlinburg 2004

Web links

• Heinrich Raspe I. ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )