Nidda (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Nidda

The Counts of Nidda were an aristocratic family who were especially fortunate in the county of Nidda .

history

In the second half of the 11th century the family becomes tangible. It came from the owners of the Malsburg near Zierenberg and Schartenberg Castle . Through a fiefdom of the Fulda monastery to Volkold I (mentioned from 1062) and a marriage of his son Volkold II (* around 1070; around 1130) into the family of the noble lords of Nürings , further property came to the family. From this they constituted the county of Nidda on the northern edge of the Wetterau .

Volkold II was the first in the family to use the title "Count of Nidda". His son Berthold I (* approx. 1115; mentioned up to 1162) inherited him and was politically not too happy: In 1155, after a lost dispute in which he went against the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Arnold at the side of Count Palatine Hermann von Stahleck von Selenhofen participated, lost the Malsburg and other North Hessian possessions. He ended his career as a robber baron. He had at least two children: Berthold II (attested from 1187; † 1205) and Mechthild. Berthold II died childless in 1205. With him, the lineage of the Counts of Nidda died out in the male line. Heiress of the County of Nidda was his sister Mechthild, who was married to Count Rudolf II von Ziegenhain . Their son Ludwig I took over the Ziegenhainer from his brother Gottfried II around 1200 and in 1205 the Nidda inheritance from his uncle Berthold II.

Since the counties of Ziegenhain and Nidda fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1450, the Landgraves and later the Electors and Grand Dukes of Hesse took over the title of "Count of Nidda" as one of their secondary titles.

coat of arms

Black and gold divided, two eight-pointed silver stars on top . On the helmet with black and gold covers an eight-pointed silver star between two black, gold-spotted buffalo horns. Variant with main shield instead of division.

Tribe list

Volkold I. (* around 1040, † 1097), from around 1065 Vogt of Bingenheim / Nidda ; ⚭ Friederuna von Bilstein

  1. Udalrich von Malsburg (mentioned in 1124)
  2. Volkold II. (* Around 1070, † around 1130), 1097 Fulda Bailiff of Nidda, from 1104 Count of Nidda; ⚭ Luitgard of Nürings (* 1075)
    1. Dammo (1131 manifested)
    2. Gottfried (1131/32 declared)
    3. Berthold I. (* around 1110, † 1162), Count of Nidda
      1. Berthold II. († 1205), Count of Nidda
        → Male line extinct
      2. Mechthild ⚭ Count Rudolf II of Ziegenhain (* around 1132, † after 1188)
        1. Giso († after 1213), canon
        2. Gottfried II. (* 1156; † around 1200), 1189–1200 Count of Ziegenhain
        3. Gozmar (V.) (announced 1214/1242)
        4. Mechthild († after September 18, 1229), ⚭ Gerlach II of Büdingen
        5. Rudolf (III.), Canon
        6. Lukardis, Abbess of Patershausen
        7. Adelheid (* around 1170; † after February 26, 1226), ⚭ 1st Count Burchhard von Scharzfeld ; ⚭ 2. Ulrich I. von Hagen-Münzenberg
        8. Ludwig I (around 1167, † 1229), from around 1200 Count von Ziegenhain, 1205 heir to the county of Nidda ; ⚭ Gertrud (* around 1172, after † 1222), widow of Count Friedrich II. Von Abenberg
  3. Bernhard von Malsburg (mentioned in 1120)
    1. Amelung of Malsburg

literature

  • Karl Ernst Demandt : History of the State of Hesse. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel et al. 1972, ISBN 3-7618-0404-0 (Grafschaft Nidda: p. 159).
  • Martin Röhling: The history of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain (= Niddaer Geschichtsblätter 9). Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .
  • Heinrich Römer: On the constitutional history of the county of Ziegenhain in the 13th and 14th centuries. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. 48, 1915, ISSN  0342-3107 , pp. 1-118.

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 11: Arms in the Philippsburg in Braubach am Rhein AD 1568 , accessed on October 27, 2015