Jossa (noble family)
The lords of Jossa were a noble family that first appeared in a document in 1156 and was probably a branch line of the lords of Steckelberg . They also called themselves von Jasza (also documented by Jazo ) and were probably the builders of Castle Joß in Burgjoss near Salmünster in the north-west of Spessart , which was built around 1160 from sandstone in place of a wooden structure on the Jossa that rests on piles and is surrounded by a moat has been. In 1176 they were enfeoffed by the abbey of Fulda with castle and court Joß and since then they have been the secular representatives of the abbey in the Jossa valley.
In the middle of the 14th century they withdrew from the Jossa valley and moved their center of power to the Bergstrasse to the Jossa Castle they built , between Jugenheim and Alsbach in what is now the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . Their property in Jossgrund was gradually sold, mostly to the Lords of Thüngen and von Hutten .
As early as 1290, the brothers Gebhard II. And Giso IV. Von Jossa, sons of Reinhard I von Jossa and his wife Agnes, had over their mother, a daughter of the noble lord Konrad II von Bickenbach (1245–1270) and his wife Guda von Falkenstein (1237-1287), the widow of Schenk . Konrad II of Klingenberg , significant possession in front Odenwald inherited: Jugenheim with Balkhausen , Quaddelbach, Winthan and season and Langwaden and the court Dieter blades. This property must have been her mother's dowry. Soon after, and probably before 1300, the brothers built Jossa Castle on the 295 m high castle hill near Jugenheim, which was then called Dagsberg. In 1312, the two of them gave their castle to the Archbishop of Mainz , Peter von Aspelt , and received it back from him as a fief . Gerhard II died around 1335 and his heirs gradually sold the castle and the lands belonging to it to the Erbach taverns . Likewise, Giso's widow Hedwig in 1338 and her son in 1339 sold their shares in Erbach. With this, the entire Jossa office came into the sole possession of the Erbacher, although it was still a Mainz fief.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.jossgrund-im-spessart.de/orte.php
- ↑ "1339: Gerlach a nobleman from Jazza renounces the fiefs of the Archbishopric Mainz zu Dasberg, Gugenheim and Dietersklingen, which were sold to Conrad Schenk von Erbach." ( Regesta sive Rerum Boicarum Autographa, 1838, p. 239 )
literature
- Carl Knetsch: The Lords of Jossa and other sexes of the name in Hesse and Nassau. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Volume 50, 1917, pp. 1–52