Meginhard von Sponheim

Meginhard von Sponheim (* around 1085, † around 1135) came from the Rhenish branch of the Sponheimers , in 1125 he was named Count von Mörsberg .

Life

origin

Meginhard was a son of Stephan II von Sponheim and probably Sophia von Formbach . His two siblings were Jutta von Sponheim and Hugo von Sponheim . Meginhard married Mechthild von Mörsberg, daughter of Adalbert von Mörsberg . Through his marriage, he inherited parts of the county of Nellenburg with the bailiwick of the Allerheiligen monastery and the bailiwick of the Pfaffen-Schwabenheim monastery (linked to Dill Castle ). Via the mother-in-law Mathilde von Bar, daughter of Dietrich von Mousson , he got hold of properties in Lorraine (St. Denis monastery).

Sponheim Monastery

In 1124 he founded the Sponheim Monastery (or ended the founding process) by handing the church and its equipment over to the Mainz Archbishopric . Meginhard's relatives Richgard and her husband Count Rudolf I von Stade participated in the establishment by equipping the monastery with goods. Meginhard became Vogt of the monastery.

progeny

The sons and daughters of Meginhard and Mechthild are documented, but not all of them are known by name. With some certainty one of the sons was a Gottfried von Sponheim, who inherited Meginhard. Mechtild is probably a daughter of the two who married Simon von Saarbrücken . The Cologne cathedral dean Albert is possibly another son. Albert played as a chaplain and notary under Konrad III. and Friedrich I. an important role in the Reich Chancellery . Albert later also became canon and dean of Cologne and provost of the Aachen Marienstift . A indirectly named Rudolf von Sponheim, founder of a short-lived side line, could be another son. Kraft von Sponheim, Abbot of the Sponheim Monastery, is not one of the sons, nor is Hildtrud. Both were written by Johannes Trithemius about the Sponheim family.

literature

Johannes Mötsch : Genealogy of the counts of Sponheim. In: Yearbook for West German State History . Volume 13, 1987, pp. 63-179, ISSN 0170-2025
Friedrich Hausmann : Siegfried, Margrave of the "Ungarnmark" and the beginnings of the Spanheimers in Carinthia and the Rhineland. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New series Volume 43, Vienna 1977, pp. 115–168 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. document from Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken from 1128, including on the donation from Nunkirchen near Bockenau from the maternal inheritance of Meginhard and Jutta. In: Georg Christian Joannis ( arrangement ): Tabularum Litterarumque veterum spicilegium usque huc nondum editarum spicilegium . a Sande, Frankfurt am Main 1724, pp. 101–112, especially pp. 109f ( Google Books ).

↑ See documents of September 21, 1127 for the All Saints Monastery in Schaffhausen ; Carl Borromaeus Aloys Fickler (arr.): Sources and research on the history of Swabia and Eastern Switzerland . Schneider, Mannheim 1859, No. XXIV and XXV, pp. 48-50 ( Google Books ).

personal data
SURNAME	Meginhard von Sponheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Sponheim
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1085
DATE OF DEATH	around 1135

[1] Cf. document from Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken from 1128, including on the donation from Nunkirchen near Bockenau from the maternal inheritance of Meginhard and Jutta. In: Georg Christian Joannis ( arrangement ): Tabularum Litterarumque veterum spicilegium usque huc nondum editarum spicilegium . a Sande, Frankfurt am Main 1724, pp. 101–112, especially pp. 109f ( Google Books ).

[2] See documents of September 21, 1127 for the All Saints Monastery in Schaffhausen ; Carl Borromaeus Aloys Fickler (arr.): Sources and research on the history of Swabia and Eastern Switzerland . Schneider, Mannheim 1859, No. XXIV and XXV, pp. 48-50 ( Google Books ).