Berthold-Bezelin
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The Berthold-Bezelins were a German noble family from the 10th century, whose sphere of influence and property laid about the Trechirgau
and Maifeldgau. They were the Counts of Stromberg
before that county became a part of the Rhenish County Palatine. The family is named after the prevailing first name Berthold, and its variation Bezelin. The Berthold-Bezelins supposedly descended from the Ernestiner (Counts of Sualafeld) and through them from the Luitpoldinger Dukes
of Bavaria
as a junior lineage.
Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate
of Prüm and documented with the Vianden
cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.
Trechirgau
The Trechirgau was a mediaeval administrative district, a gau. It belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine. Its exact extent is only roughly known and it lay in the triangle formed by Enkirch, Koblenz and Oberwesel.- History :...
and Maifeldgau. They were the Counts of Stromberg
Stromberg
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before that county became a part of the Rhenish County Palatine. The family is named after the prevailing first name Berthold, and its variation Bezelin. The Berthold-Bezelins supposedly descended from the Ernestiner (Counts of Sualafeld) and through them from the Luitpoldinger Dukes
Stem duchy
Stem duchies were essentially the domains of the old German tribes of the area, associated with the Frankish Kingdom, especially the East, in the Early Middle Ages. These tribes were originally the Franks, the Saxons, the Alamanni, the Burgundians, the Thuringii, and the Rugii...
of Bavaria
History of Bavaria
The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empires to its status as an independent kingdom and, finally, as a large and significant Bundesland of the modern Federal Republic of...
as a junior lineage.
Genealogy
The reconstructed genealogy by D. C. Jackman reads- a. Ernst II/IV (Ernestiner), m. N.N., sister of Erenfried IIErenfried IIErenfried II , son of Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau and Zulpichgau.Count in Keldachgau Count in Zülpichgau , in Bonngau , in Hattuariergau , in Tubalgau , in Hubbelrath and also count in the Belgian county of Huy, Vogt of Kloster Stablo.He married Richwara of Zulpichgau and they have...
of the House of the EzzonenEzzonenThe Ezzonids were a dynasty of Lotharingian stock dating back as far as the ninth century. They attained prominence only in the eleventh century, through marriage with the Ottonian dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. Named after Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia from 1015 to 1034, they dominated the...
- b1. Berthold I, Count in Maifeldgau and TrechirgauTrechirgauThe Trechirgau was a mediaeval administrative district, a gau. It belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine. Its exact extent is only roughly known and it lay in the triangle formed by Enkirch, Koblenz and Oberwesel.- History :...
(fl. 966), m. Alberada, granddaughter of Eberhard (II) of Maienfeld (d. ca. 944) of the House of the Matfridinger- c1. Bezelin or Berthold II, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1010)
- d1. Berthold III, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1043?), Count in WetterauWetterauThe Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains....
, successor of Otto of Hammerstein, m. N.N. of the House of the EzzonenEzzonenThe Ezzonids were a dynasty of Lotharingian stock dating back as far as the ninth century. They attained prominence only in the eleventh century, through marriage with the Ottonian dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. Named after Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia from 1015 to 1034, they dominated the...
- e1. Berthold IV, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1075/81), 1064 Count ca. Wetterau/Maingau
- e2. Udo, 1040 Count
- e3. Ezzo, 1048 Count in Niddagau
- e4. Kunigunde, m. Emich IV, Count in NahegauNahegauThe Nahegau was in the Middle Ages a county, which covered the environs of the Nahe and large parts of present-day Rhenish Hesse, after a successful expansion of the narrow territory, which did not reach the Rhine, to the disadvantage of the Wormsgau...
(EmichonesEmichonesThe Emichones family is a precursor to several noble families in the southwestern German region. Its members were -- perhaps as undercounts of the Salian dynasty -- gau counts in the Nahegau. The name is due to the prevailing first name "Emich."- History :The Nahegau was next to the Wormsgau and...
)- f1. Berthold I of Nürings, heir to jurisdiction of Niddagau and Wetterau
- e5. N.N., m. Stephan IStephan I, Count of SponheimStephan I, Count of Sponheim is the patriarch of the Rhenish branch of the House of Sponheim, which ruled over the County of Sponheim. He was closely related to Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim, patriarch of the Carinthian Sponheimish branch, but the exact relationship between the two dynasts is...
, Count of SponheimCounty of SponheimThe County of Sponheim was an independent territory in the Holy Roman Empire which lasted from the 11th century until the early 19th century...
, heirs to some jurisdiction of Trechirgau and Maifeldgau (Sponheimer)
- d1. Berthold III, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1043?), Count in Wetterau
- c2. Gerlach, Count of Lower LahngauLahngauThe Lahngau was a medieval territory comprising the middle and lower Lahn River valley in the current German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The traditional names of the Gau are Loganahe Pagus or Pagus Logenensis....
, 1013 Count in Maingau (founder of the House of Diez)
- c1. Bezelin or Berthold II, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1010)
- b1. Berthold I, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau
Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate
Vogt
A Vogt ; plural Vögte; Dutch voogd; Danish foged; ; ultimately from Latin [ad]vocatus) in the Holy Roman Empire was the German title of a reeve or advocate, an overlord exerting guardianship or military protection as well as secular justice...
of Prüm and documented with the Vianden
Counts of Vianden
The Counts of Vianden, ancestors of the House of Orange-Nassau, were associated with the castle of Vianden .-House of Sponheim:* Bertolph count of Vianden * Frederic I of Vianden...
cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.
Literature
- Jackman, Donald C.. Stromburg. Medieval German Counties. Medieval Prosopography. http://www.enlaplage.com/prosop/counts/countyA/county85.htm