Poppo I. (Reichenbach)

Poppo I. von Reichenbach (also Boppo or Poffo ; † 1156 ) was Count von Reichenbach from 1123, from 1141 to 1156 Count von Hollende , Burgrave of Amöneburg and Count of Felsberg .

Poppo was the youngest son of Count Gozmar I from the Count family von Reichenbach , of which from 1144 a branch was called Count von Ziegenhain .

Poppo inherited his older brother Rudolf I as Count von Reichenbach in 1123 (the Ziegenhainer part of his father's property had fallen to his brother Gozmar II ), had been subordinate of the Hersfeld monastery since 1138 , and held extensive inherited bailiwick and allodial property around Homberg (Efze ) and Hessisch Lichtenau , which he steadily expanded, especially by using his Hersfeld bailiwick rights. Through his marriage to Bertha von Felsberg , Poppo acquired extensive property around Jesberg , Haina and Wildungen as well as on the lower reaches of the Eder , especially around Brunslar . His domain last stretched from the Meißner to Rotenburg an der Fulda and also included important free float near Frankenberg (Eder) . The Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert II enfeoffed Poppo in 1141 with Hollende Castle , the former ancestral castle of the Gisonen bei Wetter , which died out in the male line in 1137 , and appointed him Burgrave of Amöneburg in 1145, where the monastery and town had come to Kurmainz in 1121 under Archbishop Adalbert I. the castle was built in 1145.

Poppo therefore called himself Count von Reichenbach, Hollende and Felsberg.

As a feudal man from Mainz to Hollende and Amöneburg, Poppo's task was to protect the interests of the archbishopric in the Wetter Canonical Monastery and to ward off possible attacks by the Thuringian landgraves .

Poppo and the husband of his daughter Luitgard, Volkwin II. Von Schwalenberg , founded the Benedictine monastery Haina on the Aulisburg near Löhlbach around 1144 , which was moved to its current location in 1214.

Poppo's son Heinrich I. "Albus" von Reichenbach, about whom little is known, inherited his father in East Hesse and in 1162 became bailiff of Fulda . Hollende and Felsberg, however, probably fell to Poppo's nephew Poppo II, who resided in Hollende until his death in 1170.

See also

Family list of the Counts of Reichenbach

literature

• Martin Röhling: The history of the Counts of Nidda and the Counts of Ziegenhain , Niddaer Geschichtsblätter No. 9, published by Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2005 ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .