Nordgau (Alsace)

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The Alsatian Nordgau was a medieval county.

In medieval times the area of the former was Alsace in two districts divided, the Nordgau ( "Nordgowe" Lower Rhine ) and Südgau ( "Suntgowe" Sundgau , Haut-Rhin ) were called. The border roughly corresponded to that which was established in 297 when the Roman province Germania superior was divided into Maxima Sequanorum in the south and Germania prima in the north - at the Landgraben south of Schlettstadt . Until well into the modern age there also bordering diocese Strasbourg ( ecclesiastical province of Mainz ) to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel (Ecclesiastical province of Besançon ).

The Alsatian Nordgau must be differentiated from the Bavarian Nordgau that also existed at the same time .

From the 9th to the end of the 11th century, the northern Alsace region was almost entirely in the hands of the Etichones . The family developed into the Counts of Egisheim and Dagsburg , whose property can, however, be seen in Upper Alsace. The north gau was largely absorbed by the bishopric of Strasbourg , parts of it also came to the Habsburgs and to Upper Austria . Other territories belonged to Rappoltstein , the imperial city of Strasbourg and some of the imperial cities of the ten- city league , as well as the possessions of the Lower Alsatian knighthood.

Counts in Nordgau from the house of the Etichonen

  • Eberhard III., 888 Graf im Nordgau, † after 898
    • Eberhard, Count 913–933, probably son of Eberhard III.
    • Hugo III., 910 Graf im Nordgau, † 940, son of Eberhard III.
      • Hugo IV, attested in 959, son of Hugos III.
      • Eberhard IV., 959/967 Graf im Nordgau, † 972/973, son of Hugos III.
        • Hugo V. Raucus, † before 986, 951/973 Graf im Nordgau, son of Eberhard IV.
          • Eberhard V., 986/1016 Graf im Nordgau, son of Hugos V.
          • Hugo VI., Count in Nordgau and to Egisheim , son of Hugos V.
            • Gerhard I., Count of Egisheim, X 1038, son of Hugos VI.
            • Hugo VII., Count of Dagsburg, † 1046/49, son of Hugos VI.
              • Heinrich I, Count of Egisheim and Dagsburg, † probably 1065, son of Hugos VII.
                • Gerhard II., 1065 Count im Nordgau, 1098 Count von Egisheim, son of Heinrich I.
                • Hugo VIII von Egisheim, 1074 Count von Dagsburg, † 1089, son of Heinrich I.
                • Albert I of Egisheim, 1089 Count von Dagsburg, † 1098, son of Heinrich I.