Folkmar Allena

Folkmar Allena (* unknown; † 1406 ) was one of the most influential East Frisian chiefs in the late 14th century . Its main castle was in Osterhusen .

As chief of Osterhusen, Folkmar Allena was in conflict with his neighbor Ocko I. tom Brok , chief of Brokmerland and Auricherland . After the failed armistice negotiations on August 7, 1389, Folkmar had this man murdered by assistants on the way back shortly before his ancestral castle in Aurich .

In the following years, Folkmar lost the power it had gained to Ocko's widow Foelke Kampana , who wanted to bring her son Keno II tom Brok to power. Ocko's son from his first marriage, Widzelt , allied himself with Folkmar Allena in the fight for the succession against Foelke, but was later killed in Detern . Keno became the new chief in Brokmerland in 1399.

Like Keno in Marienhafe , Folkmar in Osterhusen also gave the Vitalienbrothers shelter when they were expelled from the Baltic Sea towards the end of the 14th century and continued their craft in the North Sea.

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• Heinrich Schmidt: The eastern Friesland around 1400. Territorial-political structures and movements . In: Wilfried Ehbrecht: Störtebeker. 600 years after his death. Porta-Alba-Verlag, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-933701-14-7 , pp. 85-110.