Hugo I. (Tübingen)

This article deals with the Count Palatine Hugo I. For the Count see Hugo I. (Count of Tübingen) .

Hugo I. von Tübingen or Hugo V. von Nagold (* before 1100, † around 1152) was raised by the Staufers to Count Palatine of Tübingen shortly before 1146 .

Hugo was born as Count Hugo V. von Nagold and from 1146 at the latest was called Hugo I. Count Palatine of Tübingen. Presumably, this increase in rank was based on services that he gave the Staufer Konrad III elected king in 1138 . had done. The dignity of the palatine count was no longer associated with the original task of looking after a royal palace, but meant a kind of control function and representation of the king within the tribal duchies and thus also the second position after the duke within the duchy. Associated with this was an increase in rank over other counts of the duchy and the right to exercise the office of judge in lieu of king. This went hand in hand with hunting, customs and coinage law, as the Tübinger Pfennig , which has been in use since 1185, shows.

In the follow-up dispute over the legacy of the Counts of Bregenz , Hugo assumed the inheritance. He tried to position Bregenz better compared to Lindau by building a city fortification and setting up a market . However, this did not succeed, so that the sons moved the seat of power to Feldkirch and built the Schattenburg .

family

Countess Adelheid von Tübingen as a donor figure in the choir stalls of the Blaubeuren monastery

He was married to Hemma von Zollern , a daughter of Count Friedrich I von Zollern , and had four children with her:

• Friedrich , Count Palatine of Tübingen 1152–1162
• Hugo II. (1115–1182), Count Palatine of Tübingen 1152–1182, ∞ Countess Elisabeth of Bregenz , heiress of Montfort and Bregenz
• Heinrich von Tübingen (* around 1118; † April 7, 1167 in Italy in an epidemic)
• Adelheid of Tübingen (* around 1120) ∞ NN of Dachau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The “ Counts of Montfort ” at 'Förderkreis Heimatkunde Tettnang'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Friedrich Pfalzgraf von Tübingen , after Dr. L. Schmid: History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen 1853, page 62.