Kuno of Northeim
Kuno von Northeim , also Kuno von Beichlingen (* 1050/60; † 1103 ), Count of Beichlingen , was the third son of Count and Bavarian Duke Otto von Northeim and his wife Richenza of Swabia .
Kuno was held hostage by Henry IV in 1075/76 after his father's first uprising against King Henry IV was suppressed .
Around 1087 he married the widowed Countess Kunigunde von Weimar-Orlamünde (* approx. 1055, † 1117), daughter of the Count of Weimar and Orlamünde and Margrave of Meißen , Otto I. Kunigunde's first husband, Prince Jaropolk of Wladimir , was in November 1086 was murdered, and she has since resided at Beichlingen Castle near Kölleda in the Thuringian Basin . Beichlingen had come into the possession of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde around 1067, and through Otto's widow Adela von Brabant the claim to the county of Beichlingen obviously came to their daughter Kunigunde. With this marriage, Kuno acquired the castle and the county of Beichlingen with the associated property and bailiff rights.
Kuno supported the rival king Hermann von Salm and Bishop Burchard II. Von Halberstadt , an implacable opponent of Henry IV since 1073. After Burchard's murder in 1088, however, he returned to the imperial camp. Kunigunde and Kuno founded the Benedictine monastery of Oldisleben in Oldisleben on the Unstrut in 1088/89 , but Kunigunde owned it.
Kuno was murdered in 1103 by two of his vassals, later Counts Elger von Ilfeld and Christian von Rothenburg. Four daughters are recorded from his marriage to Kunigunde:
- Mathilde von Beichlingen; married Heinrich I , Count of Zütphen ;
- Adele von Beichlingen, first married Dietrich III. , Count of Katlenburg , second marriage to Helferich , Count of Plötzkau ;
- Liutgard von Beichlingen, married Wilhelm I , Count of Luxembourg;
- Kunigunde von Beichlingen, his first marriage was Wiprecht III. , Count von Groitzsch , in second marriage Diepold III. , Margrave of Vohburg.
Kuno's widow Kunigunde married Count Wiprecht II. Von Groitzsch , Margrave of the Ostmark , in 1110 . The celebration was a double wedding, since Wiprecht's son Wiprecht III. was married at the same time with Kunos and Kunigundes daughter Kunigunde von Beichlingen.
See also
Web links and sources
- Genealogy Middle Ages: Kuno von Beichlingen
- Genealogy Middle Ages: Kunigunde von Weimar-Orlamuende
- burgen-und-schloesser.net: Beichlingen Castle
- Erfurt-Web.de: Counts of Beichlingen ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuno of Northeim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Beichlingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1050 or 1060 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1103 |