Hermann II of Winzenburg

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Hermann II von Winzenburg (* in Winzenburg ; † January 29, 1152 ) was a son of Hermann I von Winzenburg and Hedwig von Assel-Woltingerode. He followed his father as Count von Winzenburg, but without having his father's dominant position. For years he was in the closest entourage of Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz .

Life

1122 with the death of his grandmother Mathilde's brother, Count Hermann III. von Reinhausen, his father, or later Hermann II von Winzenburg, became the legal successor of the Counts of Reinhausen, in the Leinegaugrafenamt and the bailiwick of the Reinhausen monastery. After the eighth of his father's withdrawal of all fiefs, Hermann II stayed in the Rhineland, probably in Mainz . From 1138 on, the Winzenburgers sought and won the favor of Konrad III. who used them as a counterweight against the Guelphs . As Paderborn's fiefdom he received the Plesse Castle , also called von Plesse.

Hermann was a Mainz vassal, opponent of the Guelphs and Northeimers in the War of Succession, warred both, reconciled with the latter in 1140, and thus paved the way for the inheritance of 1144, in which the Winzenburger inherited the Bomeneburg and Boyneburgers . Soon after Siegfried IV died on April 27, 1144, Hermann's younger brother Heinrich von Assel married Siegfried's widow Richenza and thus received part of the inheritance. By far the largest part of the estate, including the Homburg, was acquired by Hermann, who had large funds, from Siegfried's heirs. The two brothers also brought the extensive fiefs of the Boyneburger into their hands. In the same year, King Konrad transferred to them the county and bailiwick rights that Siegfried had owned as a fiefdom in order to bind the Winzenburgers more firmly to the crown. They were also able to secure the fiefs that Siegfried had held from the Archbishopric of Mainz and other churches. How important the Mainz fiefs were to them is evident from the fact that they ceded their Reinhausen monastery and Northeim monastery , which they had acquired, to the Archdiocese for this purpose . Did Conrad III. had to give in on the question of the Stader inheritance, he was able to record the settlement of territorial conditions in southern Saxony after the Boyneburgers died out as a success. From then on, the Winzenburgers formed a strong counterweight to the Guelphs.

Hermann closely followed Konrad III. and became his brother-in-law. Since then he has been considered an imperial prince, always appeared in the closest royal entourage, and was a witness in many royal documents. He constantly argued with the bishops of Halberstadt and the abbots of Corvey about withheld fiefs and was enfeoffed again on May 8, 1150 with the Hildesheim feudal castle Winzenburg. The winzenburg domain now extended from the middle Leine to northern Hesse and into Eichsfeld .

On the night of January 29, 1152, ministers of the Hildesheim Church, where he was hated because of his imperious nature, broke into the Winzenburg and killed Hermann and his pregnant wife with the sword. One murderer was beheaded in 1156, the other, Hermann's neighbor Count Heinrich von Bodenburg , was defeated in a duel in a divine judgment and went to the Neuwerk monastery in Halle .

Because of his maternal descent from the Counts of Northeim, Heinrich the Lion then seized Homburg. The Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (Heinrich the Lion) was awarded his pure house possessions by the Emperor on October 13, 1152 at the Würzburg Court Day, because the siblings of the father of Heinrich's maternal great-grandmother with the great-grandfather Hermann II von Winzenburg established inheritance claims. Legally, these only stopped when someone was more than seven generations away from their common ancestors.

Marriages and offspring

Hermann II married:

The inheritance claims of his alleged son Otto and the two daughters are unknown.

With his second wife he had

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SURNAME Hermann II of Winzenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Winzenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Winzenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1152
Place of death Winzenburg