Siegfried (Wied)

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Siegfried von Wied was Count zu Wied from around 1145 to at most 1162 . In 1161 he took part in Barbarossa's campaign against the northern Italian cities.

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Siegfried was the eldest son of Metfried von Wied and his wife Osterlind. His siblings included the Archbishop of Cologne, Arnold II von Wied and Hadwig von Wied , who was the abbess of the Gerresheim and Essen monasteries .

As Count von Wied, Giselbert was first mentioned as a witness in 1145 in a document from the Laacher abbot .

In 1161 he was part of one of the Italian campaigns in the wake of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . He did not return from Italy and probably died of malaria in Landriano near Milan .

Siegfried's son, Dietrich or Theoderich (before 1157 – around 1200), was his successor in the count's office.

Another son, Rudolf (1152–1197), was provost of Trier Cathedral from 1167 and was elected Archbishop of Trier in a controversial election in 1183 , but by Pope Lucius III. and in 1185 by his successor Urban III. not confirmed; Rudolf stayed in Trier as archdeacon.

The familial classification of Theoderich and Burkhard von Wied remains uncertain. Both were canons of St. Gereon in Cologne in 1183 and could possibly also have been sons of Siegfried. Between 1178 and 1187 there lived a "Master Irmgard von Wied" in the women's monastery at St. Thomas near Andernach , who also cannot be clearly assigned to Siegfried's family.

literature

  • Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the House of Wied . 1st edition, Kehrein, Neuwied 2002, ISBN 3-934125-02-6

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, pages 250, 251; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  2. ^ A b c Wilhelm Tullius: The checkered history of the House of Wied , 1st edition, Neuwied, Verlag Kehrein, 2003, page 18; ISBN 3-934125-02-6
  3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, Certificate 536: "Gisilbert, Abbot zum Laach, inherited a good ..."
predecessor Office successor
Metfried Count von Wied
1145–1162
Dietrich I.