Kunigunde from Bilstein

Kunigunde von Bilstein (* around 1080; † 1138/1140) was Countess von Gudensberg .

Kunigunde was a daughter of Count Rugger (or Rucker) II. Von Bilstein and (presumably, but not proven) a daughter of Count Werner III, unknown by name . from Gudensberg . She first married Count Giso IV von Gudensberg, with whom she had two surviving children: Hedwig (* 1098, † 1148) and Giso V. (* around 1110, † 1137). After Gisos IV's death (March 12, 1123), she married Count Heinrich Raspe I , the younger brother of Count and later Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia , in 1123 . Since Ludwig had previously married her daughter Hedwig in 1110, she now became her daughter's sister-in-law.

Heinrich Raspe I, standard bearer of Emperor Lothar III. (von Supplinburg) , who is mentioned for the first time in documents as Count von Gudensberg in 1130, was murdered in 1130. Since Kunigunde's marriage to him had remained childless and her son Giso V had died before her, the entire Gisonian and a considerable part of the Bilstein inheritance with the marriage of Hedwig and the death of Kunigunde went to Ludwig I of Thuringia, who in 1131 went to the Landgrave had been raised. This gave the Ludowingians a dominant position in northern and central Hesse, which they only lost in the 13th century after the death of Heinrich Raspe IV and the subsequent War of the Thuringian-Hessian Succession .