Hedwig of Gudensberg

Hedwig of Gudensberg (* 1098, † 1148 ) from the House of Gisonen was the heiress of Giso IV (* 1070, † March 12, 1122 ), in Hesse or Gaugraf Count of Gudensberg, and his wife Gwendolyn of Bilstein, Countess of Gudensberg († 1138/40 ).

Hedwig was since 1110 with the later Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia, the son of Count Ludwig of the jumper, married, and after the death of her brother Giso V. 1137 Gaugrafschaft Hesse and the other large possessions of the Gisonen came through this marriage to the Thuringian Ludowinger. ( Hedwig's mother, Gwendolyn Bilstein married, after the death GISOS IV still 1122 the brother of Louis, Henry Raspe I., and thus became the sister of her daughter. )

Through the marriage of Hedwig, the early death of her brother Giso V., and the second marriage of her mother Gwendolyn the Thuringian Count thus acquired a triple and extensive heritage: the gisonischen property north of Marburg with the pen Bailiwick weather, the bilsteinischen inheritance Kunigunde south of Marburg and the advocacy of the abbey Hersfeld, Hesse and the entire possession of the extinct 1121 and beerbten of Giso IV and Cunegonde Count Werner, in particular the county maggot Gudensberg with the bailiwicks of the pin Fritzlar and monasteries Hasungen and Breitenau.

1128 Hedwig gave birth to her son Ludwig II, the. Following the death of his father in 1140 at the age of twelve years of Conrad III the feud over Thuringia received. Hedwig was up to his majority regent.

Hedwig founded in 1148, during her second son Heinrich Raspe II the Hessian parts of Ludowinger managed as Count of Gudensberg, the choir female pin Ahnaberg. From the settlement that developed between this pin and the former Frankish royal court " Chasalla " (from Latin castellum = castle ) on the banks of Fulda, was very soon the fortified town of Cassel, residence of the Landgrave of Hesse was already in the next century.