Giso IV, Count of Gudensberg

Giso IV (* 1070, † March 12, 1122 ) was Count in Oberlahngau and from 1121 Count of Gudensberg in Lower Hesse and poor standard-bearer. With it, the Counts of Gisonen reached the peak of his Territorialbesitzungen and advocacies.

Giso IV is first attested in 1099 in a document, the son of the Countess Matilda, who either Giso II or III Giso. First marriage was married. ( She was married in second marriage with Count Adalbert of Saffenberg on the Ahr, lived after his death in 1109 at the Gisonenburg Hollende when the weather north of Marburg, and died 1110. )

By his marriage with Cunegonde from Bilstein, daughter of Count II of Rugger Bilstein and (probably, but not proved) an unidentified daughter of Count Werner III. of Gudensberg, Giso acquired in addition to its rights and possessions inherited from his father considerable property, and advocacies in the Werra region in Oberlahngau and on the Rhine - as, inter alia, the bailiwicks of the abbey Hersfeld and the monastery of St. Florin in Koblenz.

When Werner IV died without an heir of Grüningen on February 22, 1121, Giso IV occurred, presumably due to his marriage to Gwendolyn Bilstein whose heritage: already in the same year he was appointed as Giso IV " comes de Udenesberc " ( Count of Gudensberg ) mentioned in a document.

GISOS marriage to Gwendolyn from Bilstein and had two children: Hedwig, who with Count (later Landgraf ) Ludwig I of Thuringia was married in 1110, and Giso V, who succeeded his father. Giso IV, Count of Gudensberg died on 12 March 1122.

It is unclear whether his wife Gwendolyn by Bilstein claims the Count Werner inherited and thereby brought the county maggot Gudensberg and the Office of the Reich banner carrier to Giso IV. However, this is to be assumed, because after the death GISOS IV and to the majority of his son Giso V. whose stepfather Henry Raspe I, who in 1223 had married Cunegonde had, the Office of the Reich banner carrier held.