Emichons
The Emichons are the forerunners of several noble families in southwest Germany. Its members were - possibly as sub-counts of the Salians - Gaugrafen in Nahegau . The name is derived from the predominant name Emich or Emicho .
history
The Nahegau was next to the Wormsgau and Speyergau a property of the Salians . In 940 Emich, a vassal of Count Konrad the Red , received goods in Wormsgau from the Fulda abbot Hadamar . This Emich is probably related to the Counts of Leiningen , but it is doubtful whether he belonged to the Emichons.
A certain proof for the Emichonen appears in the year 961. A count and judge Emich received by judgment under Franconian law the goods belonging to Messrs Lantbert, Megingoz and Reginzo, including Kirn and Bergen . These gentlemen were probably sons of Nortbold, one of the first owners of a castle mentioned in 926, perhaps the Schmidtburg .
Counts with the name Emich can be identified between 960 and 1065 without interruption. However, it has not yet been possible to set up a fixed genealogy.
Presumably, the Nahegaugraf Emich IV married Kunigunde, the sister of the Trechirgaugrafen Berthold, before 1072 . Berthold was the founder of the Ravengiersburg Abbey . With him, the Bertholde family (or a branch of this family) died out (see Nürings (noble family) ).
When it became customary to name counts after the center of their rulership, Emich V called himself Count von Flonheim from around 1096 and 1098 and Count von Schmidtburg in 1107. He or his son Emicho VI. is apparently identical to Emicho the Crusader , who was the leader of the first German pogrom against the Jews. A Berthold von Stromberg was probably the brother of Emich V, a member of a branch line of the Emichons based on the Stromburg .
This ended the history of the Emichons and the family divided into the Wildgrafen , Raugrafen and Counts of Veldenz .
progeny
The following genders descend from the Emichons:
- Count of Veldenz
- Wild counts
- Raugrafen
- (probably) Counts of Leiningen (first line Alt-Leiningen )
- According to various theories, the Counts of Sponheim are said to have descended from the Emichons.
See also
literature
- Georg Christian Crollius : Lecture: From the first generation of the old Graven von Veldenz and their common descent with the older Wildgraven von den Graven in Nohgau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1770 (complete on Google Books)
- Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001
Web links
- Charles Cawley: Medieval Lands. Family of Count Emich. (at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA.htm#_Toc296770289 )