Schweinfurt (noble family)
Schweinfurt is the name of an old, late medieval German noble family .
origin
The first Margrave Berthold II († 980) was the son of Berthold I († 954) and a grandson of the Bavarian Duke Arnulf the Evil from the Luitpoldinger family . So far it is only certain that the Babenberg Margrave Luitpold I ( Leopold I of Eastern Bavaria ) was a brother or nephew of Berthold. This can only refer to Berthold I, who was previously moved into one person with his son. Berthold I - presumably incorrectly referred to as Graf auf dem Nordgau without mentioning the source - has only appeared as " comes " in 941 , when he was guarding Count Lothar II von Walbeck on behalf of King Otto until 942 . In the following, he did not give the hand of his daughter Eilika to Berthold I, his guard, but to his son Berthold II (marriage 976).
Berthold II. († 980) was count in Radenzgau (960), on the Unteren Naab (961) and in Volkfeld (973) before he became Margrave of Schweinfurt in 976 and married Eilika von Walbeck in the same year . It was he who guarded King Berengar II of Italy in Bamberg in 964 on behalf of Emperor Otto the Great .
A descent from the Popponen is possibly possible through a maternal line. In 1057 the margraves died out. Their lands were inherited by the Counts of Andechs and Andechs- Meranien , as Gisela von Schweinfurt was married to Count Arnold von Dießen ( Diezzen ).
Margraviate Schweinfurt
The county of Schweinfurt was based on possessions in the Nordgau , Radenzgau and Volkfeldgau , which were secured by a chain of castles , which gave the margrave an important position in the central realm. The main castle of the margraves of Schweinfurt was on the Peterstirn , east of today's city.
After the Schweinfurt feud , the county was smashed and left a power vacuum in the region, which the king used to strengthen his influence to found the diocese of Bamberg .
Personalities
- Berthold I († 954), son of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria († 937), uncle of Margrave Leopold I (Austria) , the progenitor of the younger Babenberger
- Berthold II of Schweinfurt († January 15, 980), son of the previous one, Count in Radenzgau (960), on the Unteren Naab (961) and in Volkfeld (973). 976 Margrave
- Burchard I. von Halberstadt , Bishop of Halberstadt, son of Heinrich von Schweinfurt
- Eilika von Walbeck, wife of Berthold II, daughter of Count Lothar II von Walbeck, founder of the Benedictine monastery in Schweinfurt
- Heinrich von Schweinfurt († September 18, 1017), son of Berthold II, margrave in the Bavarian northern district.
- Otto von Schweinfurt († September 28, 1057), his son, 1048 as Otto III. Duke of Swabia , died childless and the ultimus of the house
- Judith von Schweinfurt (* before 1003; † August 2, 1058) was Duchess of Bohemia as the wife of the Přemyslid Duke Břetislav I.
See also
literature
- Rudolf Endres: The role of the Counts of Schweinfurt in the settlement of Northeast Bavaria . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 32 . Neustadt 1972. pp. 1-45.
- Werner Emmerich: State castles in Ottonian times . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 37/3. Bayreuth 1957. pp. 50-97.
- Peter Ettel: The castles of the Schweinfurters - historical and archaeological records . In: Peter Sachsenbacher, Hans-Jürgen Beier: The Orlagau in the early and high Middle Ages . Langenweissbach 2007. pp. 185-197.
- Erich von Guttenberg: The formation of territories on the Upper Main, Part I and II . In: Report of the historical association for the maintenance of the history of the former duchy of Bamberg 39 . Bamberg 1927.
- Hubertus Seibert: Schweinfurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).