Metfried (Wied)

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Metfried von Wied , also Meffrid , Meffridus or Matfrit (* around 1073 † around 1129 or 1145), was Gaugraf in Engersgau from around 1084 and Graf zu Wied from around 1129 to 1145 . He began building Wied Castle ( Altwied ) before 1129 . Metfried was the first count of the first family of Counts in Wied and is to be regarded as the founder of the County of Wied .

Live and act

There are no known documents from which the names and positions of Metfried's parents and ancestors can be derived with certainty, and the year of birth and death are also unknown. The historian Gensicke assumes "with some certainty" that Metfried was a direct descendant of Gaugrafen Wigger, documented in 1034 in Engersgau , who is likely to be identical with Gaugrafen Wittechind mentioned in 1044.

An Osterlind is named as Metfried's wife, of whom only the name is known and who presumably comes from a noble family on the left bank of the Rhine. A previously held view that Osterlind was a relative of Heinrich the Lion has been refuted by recent research.

The earliest mention of Metfried is contained in a deed of donation from Archbishop Egelbert of Trier in favor of St. Matthias Abbey . The document is dated between 1084 and 1101 and Metfried is referred to as Graf im Engersgau (" comitatu Meffridi in pago Engeresgowe ").

Metfried and his brother Richwin von Kempenich were witnesses at the foundation of the Laach Abbey by Heinrich von Laach , Count Palatine near Rhine. In the document from 1093, which was probably forged around 1139, Metfried is referred to as "Count von Wied" (" Meffridus comes de wiede ").

In a document issued by the Archbishop of Trier Bruno on November 29, 1103 for the Münstermaifeld monastery , Metfried and Richwin were listed as counts, but without mentioning their rule (“ comes Metfrih et frater eius Rihuuin ”).

Altwied Castle, on the right the remains of the keep or the residential tower from the time of Metfried

The first certain document in which Metfried as "Count of Wied" ( " Meffridus de Widhe was called"), dates from 1129. In it, the Trier archbishop handed Meginher the convent of St. Thomas in Andernach in the care of the Abbey Springiersbach .

Metfried is the founder of the ancestral seat of Burg Wied, which was called Burg Altwied from the 17th century on . In Metfried's time, the partially preserved keep was built and was used as a residential tower .

family

Four sons and four daughters are known of Metfried:

  • Siegfried von Wied , succeeded Metfried in the count's office; mentioned in a document between 1145 and 1162
  • Arnold von Wied (around 1098–1156), became Chancellor of King Conrad III in 1138 . ; was Archbishop of Cologne from 1151 to 1156 as Arnold II von Wied ; In 1152, Arnold crowned Friedrich I Barbarossa in Aachen as German king
  • Ludwig von Wied; got the bailiwick of Erpel from his brother Arnold ; mentioned in a document in 1152 and 1166
  • Burkhard von Wied, even Burchard, inherited the rule Olbrück , then called itself Burkhard von Olbrück and was based on Olbrück Castle in the west of the Rhine Brohltal ; he was married but left no heirs; mentioned in a document between 1145 and 1166
  • Hizecha von Wied († 1172), she was abbess in the Benedictine convent in Vilich from 1144 to 1166
  • Hadwig of Wied , Hedwig (before 1120-1172), from 1150 abbess of the pins Gerresheim and food , co-founded with her brother Arnold, the wife pin of Schwarzrheindorf
  • Sophia von Wied (mentioned in a document in 1172), abbess in Schwarzrheindorf
  • Siburgis von Wied (mentioned in a document in 1172), dean in Schwarzrheindorf

literature

  • Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the House of Wied . 1st edition, Kehrein, Neuwied 2002, ISBN 3-934125-02-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The House of Wied and its coat of arms ( Memento from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, pages 30, 144 ff; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  3. ^ A b c d e Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the house of Wied , 1st edition, Neuwied, Verlag Kehrein, 2003, page 7 ff; ISBN 3-934125-02-6
  4. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 448: "Archbishop Egelbert gives the village of Genzenrode to the Abbey of S. Matheis"
  5. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 388: "Heinrich, Count Palatine near Rhine, donates the Laach Abbey"
  6. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 408: "Archbishop Bruno releases the Münster-Meinfeld monastery from the obligation ..."
  7. ↑ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 466: "Archbishop Meginher von Trier hands over the monastery of S. Thomas, restored by him, to the Abbey of Springiersbach near Andernach"
predecessor Office successor
---- Count von Wied
1129–1145 		Siegfried
personal data
SURNAME Metfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meffrid; Meffridus; Matfrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gaugraf in Engersgau, first count of the County of Wied
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1145