Berthold-Bezelin


The Berthold-Bezelins were a German noble family from the 10th century, whose sphere of influence and property laid about the Trechirgau and Maifeldgau. 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 and through them from the Luitpoldinger Dukes of Bavaria as a junior lineage.

Genealogy

The reconstructed genealogy by D. C. Jackman reads
Jackman cites Berthold of Ham, 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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