County of Dagsburg

The county with the main town Dabo Dabo (now Dabo ) in today's Lorraine was in the 11th and 12th centuries, when the area was still part of Alsace.

The family castle in Dabo, the older Dabo, came shortly before the year 1000 by the marriage of Hugo VI. , Count of Nordgau and Count of Eguisheim, with Heilwig of Dabo († 1046 ) to the Etichonen, 1150 in Upper Alsace, a further Dabo built. To the possession of the family, whose male representatives now bore the title of Count of Dabo and Counts of Eguisheim ( later came the county Metz added ), were among numerous goods on the upper Saar ( Moha, today Bug, and Waleffe and the advocacy of the diocese of Metz). The Etichonen died out in 1225.

Gertrude of Dabo, the last member of the family, leaving eleven castles (including Girbaden ) and the advocacy of nine monasteries. The property located at 1241 Dagsburg fell to the Leininger. Co-heirs were the Zähringers that their rights temporarily to the Bishop of Strasbourg leaving, but was fought against the former to the rest of the country. On the other hand, drew the Bishop of Metz Dagsburg as a home fief, Moha and Waleffe went to the Bishop of Liege.

Within the family of Leininger was from 1317 to 1467 a branch line Leiningen- Dabo.

Counts of Dabo

  • Hugo VI. , Count of Nordgau and Count of Eguisheim, 1000 ∞ Heilwig of Dabo
  • Hugo VII, Count of Dabo, † 1046/49, son of Hugh VI.
  • Henry I, Count of Eguisheim and Dabo, † probably in 1065, son of Hugo VII
  • Hugo VIII of Eguisheim, 1074 Count of Dabo, † 1089, son of Henry I.
  • Albert I of Eguisheim, 1089 Count of Dabo, † 1098, Brother Hugo VIII
  • Hugo IX. , 1103 Count of Dabo, 1130/37 testifies, son of Albert I
  • Hugo X., 1137/78 testifies, Count of Dabo and Metz, son of Hugh IX.
  • Albert II, Count of Dagsburg 1175, † 1212, son of Hugo X. ∞ Gertrud von Baden Gertrude, † 1225 daughter of Albert II, ∞ (I) 1215 Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine in 1213, 1216 Earl of Dabo and Metz, † 1217
  • (II ) 1217 Theobald IV of Champagne, King of Navarre, divorced before 1223
  • (III ) 1224 Simon of Leiningen, 1234 Count of Dabo, † 1234/36 - Descendants
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