Berthold-Bezelin (original) (raw)

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.