Hugo II (Tübingen)

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Count Palatine Hugo II of Tübingen

Count Palatine Hugo II of Tübingen († 1182 ) was the son of Count Palatine Hugo I of Tübingen. He married the heiress Elisabeth von Bregenz . As a result, he inherited Bregenz and other properties in Churrätien , Tettnang and Sigmaringen . In 1171 he founded the Marchtal monastery .

Live and act

Count Palatine Hugo II is considered the most famous personality of his gender. Since 1139 he took part next to his father on several court and imperial days of King Konrad III. part, z. B. in Weißenburg , Strasbourg and Markgröningen . In 1152 the father of Hugo II died and his eldest son Friedrich followed him in the office of the Palatine. In addition to his brother, Hugo II is repeatedly named in the entourage of Emperor Friedrich , and in particular participated in the first Roman procession , which began in 1154. As a result, Hugo II saw how the cities of Lombardy appeared on the Roncal Plain in front of Frederick's judgment seat and presented their complaints about one another and how Pope Hadrian IV in Rome in 1155 solemnly crowned him emperor.

Hugo II of Tübingen and Elisabeth
Charter fundatorum moasterii nostri Prigantini (document from the founders of our Bregenz monastery) Count Palatine Hugo von Tübingen and his wife Elisabeth von Bregenz , 1519

Around 1150, Hugo II married Elisabeth, the heir to Count Rudolf von Bregenz and Churrätien. Through this marital relationship, Hugo II came into close family ties to Emperor Friedrich and the Guelphs. From this marriage, Hugo II grew not only great honor, but also a very substantial increase in property and power. In this way he acquired most of his father-in-law's legacy.

The considerable inheritance of the Counts of Buchhorn, to which the Bregenz family, their tribal cousins, would have had the next claim, had already taken over the Guelph house at the end of the 11th century a violent feud had come.

For this Welf VI transferred. , Duke of Spoleto, gave the husband of his niece Elisabeth a very respectable fief. For the time being, this consisted of a considerable number of villages, including Echterdingen and Möhringen on the Fildern. In particular, however, a large part of the county over the Glemsgau belonged to this Guelf fief, whose main town was Burg and the town of Asperg near Ludwigsburg. This Guelph fiefdom was very fateful for him. It gave rise to a violent and protracted feud between him and the Swabian Guelphs, through which he became known in wider circles of the empire, but which ended tragically for him.

The feud with the Guelphs

Soon after Hugo II had attained the dignity of the Palatinate, he had three robber barons apprehended for street robbery. These sat in Möhringen on the Fildern . Two of them were in his service, the third belonged to Duke Welf VI. He left the Guelph, but his men ran away with impunity. To the complaint raised by the old Welf, he gave this, his liege lord, a hurtful answer.

Welf VI. but did not pursue the matter further, but left it to his son Welf VII to demand satisfaction from the Count Palatine. Before he went to Italy, he had given him all the properties that belonged to his mother, the Countess of Calw. Hugo II showed himself to be even less compliant with the young Welf. He is said to have followed the inspiration of Duke Friedrich IV of Swabia, who expressed the hatred of the Guelphs by his father, King Konrad III. had inherited, while his cousin Emperor Friedrich I favored the Guelphs.

As part of the Tübingen feud , a mighty army gathered under the banner of Welfs, which Count Heinrich von Voringen carried; the bishops of Augsburg, Speyer and Worms took part, as did the Duke of Zäringen, the margraves of Baden and Vohburg, and a number of counts and nobles, including the counts of Calw and the counts of Gottfried and Rupert of Ronsberg - together 2200 probably liked it Have been a man. Hugo alone was no match for him, but he had powerful allies: At the top stood Duke Friedrich von Rothenburg ob der Tauber with 1,500 knights. Even so, their enemies outnumbered them. On September 6, 1164, on a Saturday evening, they arrived in front of Tübingen and set up camps on the Derendinger heap with the intention of resting on Sunday from their march. They had probably arrived in forced marches to cut off any further help for the Tübingen people. So they had exhausted themselves and began negotiations the following day in order to be able to rest.

Some from the Tübingen castle noticed their exhaustion, went down to the Wörth and teased the enemy. Violence soon ensued, both groups received help from their side and there was a major commotion. The Tübingen were prepared for this, the Welfish, tired from the march, put to sleep by the negotiations, ran in disorder. They held out the attack for only two hours, then they fled in wild disorder into the valleys and forests. Nine hundred were caught. Welf himself only came to Achalm Castle with two or three companions . As a reminder of this escape, the Wennfeld Chapel or Nikolauskapelle was built on the Neckar meadow on Reutlinger Weg .

Descendants

Seal of the Tübingen Count Palatine Hugo II

His second son Hugo (III., † 1228/30) founded the new independent line Montfort as Hugo I von Montfort . The house of Montfort took over the Palatine coat of arms with changed coat of arms colors.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Schmid:  Hugo II, Count Palatine of Tübingen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 311-319.
  2. ^ A b Siege of Tübingen by the Duke of Spolero. In: Heinrich Ferdinand Eisenbach: Description and history of the university and city of Tübingen. Pages 9–12.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugo II of Tübingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Tübingen; Founder of the Marchtal Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1182