Berthold-Bezelin

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The Berthold-Bezelins (German: Berthold/Bezeline) were a German noble family from the 10th century, whose sphere of influence and property laid about the Trechirgau and . They were the Counts of Stromberg before that county became a part of the Electorate of the Palatinate. The family is named after the prevailing first name Berthold, and its variation Bezelin. The Berthold-Bezelins supposedly descended from the Ernestiner (Counts of ) and through them from the Luitpoldinger Dukes of Bavaria as a junior lineage.

Genealogy[]

The reconstructed genealogy by D. C. Jackman reads

  • a. Ernst II/IV (Ernestiner), m. N.N., sister of Erenfried II of the House of the Ezzonen
    • b1. Berthold I, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (fl. 966), m. Alberada, granddaughter of Eberhard (II) of Maienfeld (d. ca. 944) of the House of the Matfridinger
      • c1. Bezelin or Berthold II, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1010)
        • d1. Berthold III, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1043?), Count in Wetterau, successor of , m. N.N. of the House of the Ezzonen
          • e1. Berthold IV, Count in Maifeldgau and Trechirgau (d. 1075/81), 1064 Count ca. Wetterau/Maingau
          • e2. Udo, 1040 Count
          • e3. Ezzo, 1048 Count in Niddagau
          • e4. Kunigunde, m. Emich IV, Count in Nahegau (Emichones)
            • f1. Berthold I of , heir to jurisdiction of Niddagau and Wetterau
          • e5. N.N., m. Stephan I, Count of Sponheim, heirs to some jurisdiction of Trechirgau and Maifeldgau (Sponheimer)
      • c2. Gerlach, Count of Lower Lahngau, 1013 Count in Maingau (founder of the )

Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate of Prüm and documented with the Vianden cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.

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