Heinrich Raspe II.

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Heinrich Raspe II. (* Around 1130; † around 1155/57) was the second son of Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia from the Ludowinger family and his wife Hedwig von Gudensberg , heir to Count Giso IV of Maden and Gudensberg .

Life

Through his marriage to Hedwig and the early death of her brother Giso V., his father came into the possession of the County of Gudensberg and the other extensive Gison lands and rights in what is now northern and central Hesse, and Heinrich became, as was the case in the house the Ludowinger became customary when the county of Gudensberg was transferred to the administration as the younger brother of the Landgrave . Heinrich was a partisan of the Staufer , as the Ludowingers saw themselves put under pressure by the expansive policy of Heinrich the Lion .

The foundation of the Ahnaberg monastery by Heinrich and his mother Hedwig, around 1140–1148, on imperial fiefs near the former Saxon, later Franconian noble court "Chasalla" (from Latin "Castellum" = castle) on the Fulda marked the beginning of intensive activities the Ludowinger in the Kassel area . Very soon, the small settlement near the monastery, together with the monastery and the aristocratic court, was walled up and raised to the status of " civitas " . It received city ​​rights in 1189 and its own jurisdiction around 1200 and in 1277, under Heinrich I , became the main residence of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which emerged from the Hessian part of the Ludowinger legacy, in place of Gudensberg .

Under Heinrich Raspe II, it is very likely that the castles in Marburg and Gudensberg were also renovated and expanded.

literature

  • Hilmar Schwarz: The Ludowingers. The rise and fall of the first Thuringian landgrave family . Eisenach, 1993.
  • Herbert Buck: Kassel and Ahnaberg: Studies on the history of the city and monastery in the Middle Ages . Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main, 1968.
  • Hans Patze : The emergence of the sovereignty of Thuringia. Böhlau, Cologne, 1962, p. 236.
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables, New Series, Volume I.1. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1998, plate 145.
  • Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history; Volume I, Part 1. RG Fischer, Frankfurt / Main, 1993, ISBN 3-8940-6965-1 , plate 178.

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personal data
SURNAME Heinrich Raspe II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION second son of Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia from the Ludowinger family and his wife Hedwig von Gudensberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1130
DATE OF DEATH around 1155 or around 1157