Gottfried VII, Count of Ziegenhain

Gottfried VII (died 1372), eldest son of Count John I, ruled Ziegenhain and Nidda from 1359, having already received Nidda as co-ruler under his father.

Like earlier counts he tacked between Hesse and Mainz: in 1344 he and his father sold the archbishopric a quarter of the castle and town of Nidda, then allied with Hesse months later. He reorganized the county into six administrative offices.

In 1370 he became captain of the League of the Star, a coalition against Hessian expansion, and died in 1372 during the ensuing Star War. His son Gottfried VIII succeeded him.