Wormsgau

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The Wormsgau or pagus wormatiensis (also Wormsfeldgau ) was a county in the Middle Ages that not only extended in the vicinity of the city of Worms , but at times extended along the Rhine far north until shortly before Koblenz : the city of Mainz was just as much a part of it as it was at the beginning of the 9th century also Boppard , which was lost again around 825. In the 10th century, Wormsgau lost other Middle Rhine areas, mostly in favor of the Nahegau , including Ingelheim 937, Spiesheim 960, Saulheim 973 and Flonheim 996, until the Selz represented the northern border after this shrinkage ended. The losses in the north were partially offset by profits to the west and off the Rhine, especially in the Palatinate Forest .

The Wormsgau was one of the central possessions of the Salians .

Counts in Wormsgau

Robertines

  1. Rupert I. (Robert I.) (722/757 attested, † before 764) 732 dux in Haspengau , 741/742 comes palatinus ( Pfalzgraf ), around 750 count in the Upper Rhine and Wormsgau, 757 royal missus in Italy , ∞ around 730 Williswint († after 768) founds Lorsch Monastery on July 12, 764 , heiress on the Upper Rhine and von Hahnheim in Rheinhessen , heir to Count Adalhelm
  2. Robert II (Rutbert II. O. Hruodbertus) (attested 770, † July 12, 807), his grandson, 795/807 Count in Worms- and Oberrheingau , 795 Herr zu Dienheim , ∞ I Theoderata (Tiedrada) (766/777 attested, † before 789), ∞ II Isengarde, 789
  3. Rutpert III. (Rutpert III.) († before 834) his son, 812/830 Count in Wormsgau, Count in Oberrheingau , 825 imperial missus in the diocese of Mainz , ∞ around 808 Wiltrud (Waldrada) von Orléans , 829/834 heiress of property in Orléans, Daughter of Count Hadrian and the Waldrat from the house of the Widons
  4. Guntram , his son, Count in Wormsgau 815/837
  5. Ruadbert (Robert), 817 Graf im Saalgau , Oberrheingau and Wormsgau ( Franconian Babenberger )
  6. Rutpert IV. (Robert I the Strong) (X September 15 or July 25, 866 in the Battle of Brissarthe ) Brother Guntrams, 836-after 840 Count in Wormsgau, 852 Abbot of Saint-Martin-de-Marmoutier near Tours , 853 Count of Tours , 861/866 nobilis Franciae (Franzien, Ile de France ) and Count of Paris , ∞ I NN, probably Agane, ∞ II beginning of 864 Adelaide (Aelis) of Tours († after 866) daughter of Count Hugo of Tours ( Etichonen ) and the Bava, widow of Konrad I, Count of Aargau and Auxerre , Count of Linzgau ( Welfen )
  7. Walaho IV. (Werner IV.) († probably before 890), Salier (?), Count in Wormsgau after 840 ∞ Oda, daughter of Rutpert III. (Upper Rhinegau)
  8. Megingoz I., 876, probably Graf im Wormsgau ( Wilhelminer ), ∞ NN, probably a sister of Robert the Strong

Conradines

  1. Werner V. († probably 920), Salier , Count in Nahegau , Speyergau and Wormsgau around 890/910, ∞ NN from the house of the Konradines
  2. Konrad Kurzbold († June 30, 948), 906/907 and 932 Graf im Wormsgau, 910 Graf im Niederlahngau , 927 Graf im Ahrgau , Graf im Lobdengau , founded the St. Georg Monastery in Limburg an der Lahn in 910 , where he was also buried has been
  3. Konrad der Rote († 955), Werner V's son, count in Nahegau, Speyergau, Wormsgau and Niddagau , count in Franconia , Duke of Lorraine , ∞ around 947 Liutgard of Saxony (* 931, † 953) daughter of King Otto I. ( Liudolfinger )
  4. Otto "von Worms" († 1004), his son, Count im Nahegau, Speyergau, Wormsgau, Elsenzgau , Kraichgau , Enzgau , Pfinzgau and Ufgau , Duke of Carinthia

Salier

  1. Heinrich "von Worms" († 989/1000) his son, Count in Wormsgau, ∞ Adelheid († probably 1039/1046), sister of Count Adalbert and Gerhard ( Matfride )
  2. Konrad II the Younger (* probably 1003, † 1039) his nephew, Count im Nahegau, Speyergau and Wormsgau, Duke of Carinthia (1036-1039)

literature

  • Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, 7th delivery, IV.9: The medieval Gaue, 2000, 1 map sheet, 1 booklet, edited by Thomas Bauer, ISBN 3-7927-1818-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Josef Minst: Lorscher Codex III, certificate 1835