Waldgrave
Territory of the Holy Roman Empire
The noble family of the game count (Latin: comites silvestres, so actually: Forest Earl ) came from a division of the House of Nahegaugrafen in the year 1113.
History
First game was Emicho Count VII (1103-1135), son of Count Emicho VI. (1076-1123) from Nahegau. Emicho VII, Count of Kyrburg, Schmidt castle and tree mountain and from 1129 Count of Flonheim. Already in 1113, the line of the Counts of Veldenz had split off. Around 1150, the Raugrafen seceded. In each case a part of the property was lost.
1154 Wild Count Conrad I was doomed to ignominious punishment of dogs wearing. For what reason was the involvement in an armed confrontation with Palatine Count Hermann von Stahleck and other nobles against the Archbishop of Mainz, Arnold of Selenhofen. Konrad daughter of Rainald I of Bar was with Matilda of Bar, married. Conrad's son, Gerhard I, who was married to Agnes of Wittelsbach ( Agnes remarried Albert III. Everstein of ). Conrad II was followed by Gerhard. Conrad was married to Gisela von Saarbrücken.
1258 there was a split in the lines Dhaun and Kyrburg from which in 1284 still the line Schmidtburg separated, but in 1330 became extinct. As a result of family disputes, the Schmidt castle fell to the Electorate of Trier. The heirs of the lines Kyrburg and Dhaun tried to 1342 in three feuds in vain to regain the Schmidtburg.
Even before 1350 died from the line Dhaun and finally in 1409 the line Kyrburg. Heirs were the Rhinegraves that henceforth called themselves wild and Rhinegraves. These in turn were 1459/1475 on the legacy of the Counts of Obersalm and called themselves after the Counts of Salm.
Possession
The focus of the possession of the Earl Wild as a direct successor to the Emichones was in the former Nahegau. The territory later sat down substantially from personal property, fiefdom, fief of the Counts Palatine and Bailiwick possession of the monastery of St. Maximin together. Important castles were: Kyrburg, Schmidt, Burg Dhaun and castle Grumbach. Grave lay of the house was the St. John's Church to Dhaun and from 1606, the church at Herren-Sulzbach. For Grumbach Count Johann was in 1330 to secure the granting of town rights.
Grumbach
Schmidtburg
Dhaun
Coat of arms
The Count's wild line Dhaun had this strain coat of arms: In a red gold, (mostly) blue crowned lion. The coat of arms of the line, however, was Kyrburg: In red three ( 2-1 ) erect, golden lions. Both appear even today in a number of recent municipal coat of arms, such as:
Hochstetten- Dhaun
Löllbach
Municipality Lauterecken
Kappeln at Lauterecken
Grumbach am Glan
Aschbach
Municipality Alsenz - Obermoschel
Münsterappel
Municipality Herrnstein
Breitenthal
Gösenroth
Flonheim
Known family members
- Richard of Dhaun, 1247-1257 Bishop of Worms
- Gerhard Wild Earl of Dhaun († 1259 ), as Gerhard I. Archbishop of Mainz
- Conrad II Count of wild Dhaun († 1279 ), 1258-1278/1279 as Conrad II Bishop of Freising.
- Emicho Wild Count of Wittelsbach († 1311 ), 1283-1311 Bishop of Freising
- Henry III. of Dhaun, 1318-1319 Bishop of Worms
- Conrad III. of Dhaun († 1434 ), from 1419 to 1434 as Conrad III. Archbishop of Mainz
Genealogy
- Conrad I 1128-1159 ∞ Mathilde of Bar, daughter of Rainald I of Bar Gerhard ∞ Agnes of Wittelsbach Conrad II in 1263 † ∞ Gisela von Saarbrücken, daughter of Simon II of Saarbrücken Gottfried † 1301 Wild Earl of Dhaun Konrad † ∞ 1309 Hildegard Vogt Hunolstein Johann † ∞ 1350 Margarethe von Sponheim -Kreuznach
- Hedwig ∞ Rhine Count John, inherited the Dhauner line
- Konrad Widgraf of Schmidtburg † ∞ 1305 Catherine of Salm Heinrich, Widgraf Schmit castle † ∞ 1329 Gertrud von Erbach, with Henry dies Schmitdburger line from
- Friedrich, Graf von Wild Kyrburg † ∞ 1369 Agnes of Schoenecken