Counts of Dillingen
The Counts of Dillingen were a Swabian comital family of the Hupaldinger (Hucpaldinger) dynasty during AD 955–1286.
History
The family originate in
The founder of the dynasty was Hucpald I who died in 910 and was succeeded by his son Dietpald I. Dietpald's brother Ulrich of Augsburg was appointed Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg in 923. Hucpald's daughter Heylwig married Herman I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia.
In 953, rebellion broke out led by
When the
Dietpald's son Richwin was given the inheritance of his father as
Hartmann I, son of Hupald IV (d. 1074) was born c. 1040 and in 1065 married Adelheid, daughter of the count of Winterthur. The male line of the counts of Winterthur had been extinct in 1053, and Hartmann I via his wife inherited the County of Kyburg with Kyburg Castle and its lands. By 1096 the counts of Dillingen included count of Kyburg as one of their titles. Hartmann I founded Neresheim Abbey in 1095, shortly before departing for the First Crusade. Many nobles found it difficult to maintain bare essentials at so great a distance from their home territories. Poverty was rife among crusaders in the Holy Land, and Hartmann sold his armor for food. He was near destitute until duke Godfrey assigned him a daily allotment from his own provisions.[4] Hartmann I retired to Neresheim Abbey in his old age, and died there in 1121.
In 1111, the Dillingen's title is recorded as comites de Dilinga. Schloss Dillingen was expanded and fortified in the 12th century; it is mentioned as castrum Dilingin in 1220.
Hartmann's younger son Ulrich I became
Adalbert's sons split the family lands: Hartmann III of Dillingen taking the Swiss property, while his brother Adalbert II received the Swabian territories. Hartmann of Kyburg acquired territory from the inheritance of the Counts of Lenzburg in 1173. He founded the cities of Diessenhofen (1178), Winterthur (1180) and possibly Frauenfeld. After the death of his brother Adalbert II in 1170 he again unified the family territories. After his death in 1080, the counties of Dillingen and Kyburg were again separated with his son Adalbert III continuing the Dillingen line and his other son Ulrich the cadet Kyburg line. Ulrich married Anna, daughter of Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen. Both brothers accompanied
Adalbert III von Dillingen sided with
Adalbert IV, son of Hartmann IV, is mentioned as illustris nunc comes de Dilingen in 1255. He died without issue in 1257, and the allod of the manor of Dillingen passed to his younger brother, Hartmann Graf von Dillingen, Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg, which he donated to the Church of Augsburg in 1258. Upon his death in 1286, he likewise bequeathed to the Church of Augsburg his paternal inheritance, including the town and castle of Dillingen, which served as a refuge for future bishops.[6][7][8]
References
- ISBN 9781843839279
- ISBN 9781351894166
- ISBN 3-8253-0018-8
- ISBN 9780826430281
- ISBN 9781317036852
- ^ Lins, Joseph. "Augsburg." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 22 August 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ISBN 9789004111202
- ^ Zoepfl, Friedrich, "Hartmann" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 724-725
Sources
- Gerhard Köbler, Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 7th ed. (2007), 141f.
- Friedrich Zoepfl (1957), "Dillingen", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 720–720; (full text online)
- Paul Kläui (1966), "Hartmann I., Graf von Dillingen-Kyburg", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 7, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 726–726; (full text online)
- Adolf Layer, Die Grafen von Dillingen. In: Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Dillingen an der Donau Bd. 75, Dillingen 1973