Volkold II (Nidda)

Volkold II of Nidda (* around 1070, † around 1130) was the first Count of Nidda from the House of Malsburg.

Life

origin

. Volkold II was a son of Edelfreien Volkold I of Malsburg , the order in 1065 as Vogt about the court Bingenheim summarizing free float of the imperial abbey of Fulda in the northern Wetterau - the so-called Fuldische Mark and possessions in Nidda had been used - tal. The abbey could not exercise the blood judiciary itself, at the same time required secular protection for its possessions and therefore commissioned bailiffs with these tasks. For these services, the bailiff received half of the associated villages (except for Bingenheim Castle ) as a fiefdom .

Vogt or Count of Nidda

Volkold II married Luitgart von Nürings (* 1075) from the house of the Nürings (at Nürings Castle ), the lords of Königstein in the Taunus . Luitgard was a daughter of Berthold von Nürings (* 1050, † 1112), count in the Gau Wettereiba and Vogt of the monasteries Lorsch and Ravengiersburg . The marriage brought Volkold Allod property in the Nidda area, which became the foundation of the County of Nidda, and probably also strengthened his entitlement to succeed his father as bailiff of the Bingenheim court, which he took over in 1097.

It is unclear whether Volkold II or his father was the builder of the circular moated castle in Nidda ; possibly the son completed the construction started by the father. It is at least known that the judicial district of Bingenheim was also called " Grafschaft Nidda " at this time . Volkold II moved from Bingenheim Castle in Fulda to his own castle in Nidda and called himself "Count of Nidda" from 1104 at the latest.

Volkold was involved in disputes and feuds several times . In 1097, Count Erpo von Padberg complained about the relatives of his wife Beatrix von Nidda, who, after their childless death, contested the possession of Boke and thus forced him to move the Boke monastery, which he and she founded, to Flechtdorf . In 1117 Volkold was involved in a feud on the side of Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz against Duke Friedrich II of Swabia , in which he was imprisoned for some time. After he was taken prisoner in Mainz during another feud , he and his brother Udalrich von Wartbach (Warthbeche), who had inherited the castles and estates of the family in the Zierenberg area in northern Hesse from their brother Bernhard and his son Amelung, had their castles in 1124 Malsburg and Schartenberg give the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I a fiefdom (although Volkold was only willing to do so after a long period of reluctance), but received them back as a fiefdom. Volkold II stayed in Nidda, however, and left the administration of these fiefs to his brother, but after Udalrich's childless death they fell entirely to him.

progeny

Volkold's son Berthold I (* around 1110, † 1162) succeeded his father as Count of Nidda. Berthold's brothers Thammo / Dammo (only known in 1131) and Gottfried (known in 1131 and 1132) had died before or shortly after their father.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Georg Landau: Description of the German Gaue, first volume: Description of the Gaues Wettereiba. Kassel, 1855, p. 30
2. ↑ This bailiwick may have previously been in the hands of the Lords of Nürings in the Taunus as a Fulda fief .
3. ↑ Soon after 1604, when Nidda fell to Hessen-Darmstadt , the castle was demolished and replaced by a Renaissance castle, which housed the district court of Nidda until the end of 2011 .
4. ↑ Burgenlexikon ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners, first volume. Luckhardsche Hofbuchhandlung, Kassel, 1832, pp. 358–359

literature

• Ottfried Dascher (Ed.): Nidda: the history of a city and its surrounding area. 2nd Edition. Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2003, ISBN 3-9803915-8-2 .
• Karl E. Demandt: History of the State of Hesse. 2nd Edition. Kassel 1972, ISBN 3-7618-0404-0 . (County Nidda: p. 159)
• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 . (= Nidda history sheets 9.)
• Wilhelm Wagner: 1025 years of Nidda - the story of an old, lovable city. Nidda 1976.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Witzel: The imperial abbey of Fulda and their high bailiffs, the counts of Ziegenhain in the 12th and 13th centuries. 1963. (= Publication of the Fulda History Association 41)

predecessor	Office	successor
Volkold I.	Count of Nidda 1097 – around 1130	Berthold I.