Rudolf II (goat grove)

Rudolf II. (* Around 1132; † not before 1188) was Count von Ziegenhain from July 1184 until his death .

Life

Rudolf was the second son of Count Gottfried I of Ziegenhain and Wegebach (around 1100–1158). His older brother Gozmar III. (around 1130–1184) followed his father as Count von Ziegenhain and Domvogt von Fulda . When Gozmar died on July 26, 1184 when the Erfurt latrine fell, Rudolf inherited him.

However, he soon had to accept a significant reduction in his property when his niece Liutgart (Lukardis), Gozmar's heir, married Friedrich von Thuringia (around 1155–1229), the third son of the Landgrave Ludwig II of Thuringia , in 1185 the Ludowinger . As a result, Friedrich came into possession of the Wildungen rulership and was formally confirmed as Gozmar's successor as Count von Wildungen , nominal count of Ziegenhain and Wegebach, and Vogt zu Staufenberg and Reichenbach . With the rule of Wildungen the Ziegenhain lost important allod property in Northern Hesse to the Ludowingers, who had inherited the Gisonen (and with the latter also the Count Werner ) in 1137.

Marriage and offspring

Rudolf married Mechthild, sister of Count Berthold II of Nidda , around 1155 . With this he had the following children:

• Adelheid (* around 1170; † after February 26, 1226), ⚭ 1st Count Burchhard von Scharzfeld ; ⚭ 2. Ulrich I. von Hagen-Münzenberg
• Giso († after 1213), 1188/1213 canon at the Petristift in Fritzlar
• Gottfried II. (* 1156; † around 1200), 1189–1200 Count von Ziegenhain, ⚭ Heilwig zur Lippe , daughter of Bernhard II. (Lippe)
• Gozmar (V.), proclaimed 1214/1242
• Ludwig I (* around 1167; † 1229), from around 1200 Count von Ziegenhain, from 1205 also Count von Nidda , ⚭ Gertrud (* around 1172, after † 1222), widow of Count Friedrich II. Von Abenberg
• Lukardis, nun St. Catherine in Eisenach , 1252 the first abbess of the Cistercian -Klosters Patershausen
• Mechthild († after September 18, 1229), ⚭ Gerlach II of Büdingen
• Rudolf (III.), 1188 Canon of Hildesheim , 1191/93 provost at the Petersstift in Goslar

Succession

After Rudolf's death, Gottfried II succeeded him as the ruling Count of Ziegenhain. This was followed by his brother Ludwig I, who in 1205 inherited the county of Nidda from his uncle Berthold II through his mother .

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Giso could be identical to the abbot of the same name (1215/1236) of the Breitenau monastery .
2. ↑ Ulrich II. Von Hagen-Münzenberg left the estate and the structural remains of the abandoned Benedictine monastery of Patershausen, which were in his reign of Babenhausen , to his mother's sister, Lukardis von Ziegenhain, and his own sister Lukardis von Münzenberg, on January 20, 1252 to found a monastery there.
3. ↑ Donated in 1045 by Emperor Heinrich III. and his wife Agnes ( Eduard Crusius : History of the formerly imperial free imperial city of Goslar am Harze . First delivery, 1842, p. 32

literature

• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. (= Niddaer Geschichtsblätter 9.) Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Gozmar III.	Count of Ziegenhain 1184 - 1188	Gottfried II.