Radenzgau

The Radenzgau was a medieval Gaugrafschaft that was detached from the Volkfeld by the Carolingians in the 8th century .

location

The Radenzgau essentially coincides with today's administrative district of Upper Franconia , but Bamberg and parts of the Steigerwald , the Fichtelgebirge and the Vogtland were missing . In the south the rivers Regnitz , the southern Franconian Schwabach and Pegnitz formed its natural borders; here it meets the north gau .

Count

Counts in Radenzgau were:

• Berthold von Schweinfurt , † January 15, 980, 941 Graf, 960 Graf im Radenzgau, 961 Graf an der lower Naab , 973 Graf im Volkfeld, 976 Margrave , 980 Graf im Eastern Franconia ( Babenberger , Schweinfurt (noble family) )
• Heinrich von Schweinfurt , † September 18, 1017, son of Berthold, 981 count on the lower Naab, 983 count on the lower Altmühl , 994 margrave in the Bavarian Nordgau and 1002 count in the Radenzgau.

After the fall of Heinrich in 1003, the royal courts in Rangau , Volkfeld and Radenzgau formed the core of the property of the newly founded diocese of Bamberg .

• Poppo I. von Andechs (* around 1123; † (10/11) December 1148), Count von Andechs (1137), Count von Krain (1131), Count von Giech (1139), Count von Plassenburg (1142), Count in Radenzgau (1143–1148)
• Berthold III. von Andechs, Brother Poppos, June 1149 comitatus Perhtoldi comitis in Retenzgowe

See also

• List of medieval districts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Looshorn: The history of the diocese of Bamberg , Volume 2: The holy bishop Otto. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of his canonization. The diocese of Bamberg from 1102–1303 ; Bamberg: Historischer Verein 1967 (reprint of the edition from 1888); P. 378.