Siegfried I (Wittgenstein)

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Siegfried I of (Battenberg-) Wittgenstein († after 1283 ) was the founder of the Wittgenstein line of the old Battenberg family .

Life

He was a son of Count Widekind I. von Wittgenstein and Battenberg and his wife Ida von Runkel. He was probably the oldest of the offspring. His brothers were Werner III. von Battenberg and Widekind II. von Battenberg .

In 1238 he played a key role in selling half of the Battenberg County to the Archdiocese of Mainz , as his father wanted . The Battenberg family did not completely give up their rights to this area. Rather, bishops and counts shared the rights to Battenberg and the cellar castle as well as to the courts.

Soon after 1238, the inherited property was divided between him and his brother Widekind II. Siegfried received the southern parts of the country around Wittgenstein Castle , while his brother received the remainder of the property around Battenberg. Since 1243 Siegfried has called himself Wittgenstein exclusively after his estate. A little later he expanded an older settlement below Wittgenstein Castle into the town of Laasphe . 1258 it acquired along with Adolf of county of the monastery County the mountain on which a second city was founded, Berleburg .

There was a different political orientation between the two domains. His brother oriented himself towards the Archbishops of Mainz, while Siegfried had close relationships with the Landgraves of Thuringia / Hesse. He appears as a witness in a series of documents from Sophie von Brabant - the ancestral mother of the House of Hesse . He was present when she placed the Teutonic Order House in Marburg under her protection.

In 1282 he allied himself with his nephew Hermann II von Battenberg on the occasion of a feud between Archbishop Werner von Eppstein and Landgrave Heinrich I von Hessen . The relatives wanted to win the rule of Hatzfeld for themselves. After the conclusion of the peace they had to surrender this rule again. Siegfried appears in a document for the last time in 1283 on the occasion of a transfer of goods to the Caldern monastery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regest no. 33: Protection privilege and confirmation of goods for the Teutonic Order House in Marburg. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Regest no. 263: Mediation of the dispute between Mainz and Hesse. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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SURNAME Siegfried I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegfried I of Wittgenstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Wittgenstein
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1283