Ada of Holland (Brandenburg)

Ada von Holland († 1205 or later) was the wife of Margrave Otto II of Brandenburg .

Falcon hunting seal of Ada von Holland, Margravine of Brandenburg, 1205, copper engraving from Philipp Wilhelm Gercken : Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Volume 8. Salzwedel 1785, plate after p. 386.

She was a daughter of Count Floris III. from Holland and Ada from Huntingdon. Her brothers were the later Counts Dietrich VII and Wilhelm I of Holland , among others . At an unknown point in time, she was taken to her husband in Werda . The marriage remained childless, so Otto vowed to take part in a crusade. His childlessness was probably a reason for Otto, together with his brother Albrecht II , to give his allodial property to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg as a fief in 1196. Otto did not give up hope of having his own children. In a letter, Pope Innocent III warned . in his third year of pontificate, Otto treated his wife with marital affection. A knight tried to murder Ada in Schönwalde and was sentenced to death by Margrave Otto II. Otto II died on July 4, 1205. In the same year, with the consent of her Dutch relatives, Ada sold two hooves in Poel to the Rijnsburg monastery .

In older literature she was wrongly referred to as the wife of Margrave Otto I.

literature

Johannes Schultze : The Mark Brandenburg. Volume 1. Berlin 1961, pp. 103-111.
HGA Obreen: Ada van Holland (1). In: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek 2 (1912), Sp. 10 ( digitized version ).
Hermann Krabbo: The Margraves Otto I, Otto II and Albrecht II of Brandenburg. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History 24 (1911), pp. 323-370 and 567-568, here pp. 348 and 358 ( digitized version ).

Web links

English translation of the document of 1205 by Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters

Remarks

↑ Johannes de Beka , Chronographia 57a, ed. Hans Bruch ( Rijks geschiedkundige publicatiën. Grote serie 143), 's-Gravenhage 1973, p. 117 ( digitized version ). Cf. on the Klaus van Eickels family : The Counts of Holland and the Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 60 (1996), pp. 65–87 ( digitized version ).
↑ Chronica principum Saxoniae , ed. Oswald Holder-Egger ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Scriptores 25), Hanover 1880, p. 477 ( digitized version ); Heinrich Krabbo (edit.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911 ( publications by the Association for the History of the Mark Brandenburg ), p. 109, No. 526 and 527 ( digitized version ). On the marriage policy of the Ascanians, cf. Lorenz Friedrich Beck: The Ascanians in Brandenburg. Dynasty and territorial rule. In: How the Mark came about. 850 years of the Mark Brandenburg. Wünsdorf 2009 ( Research on Archeology in the State of Brandenburg 11) ( Individual publication by the Brandenburg State Main Archives 9), ISBN 978-3-910011-56-4 , pp. 324–337, here p. 332 and Peter Neumeister: Die Frauen der Brandenburgischen Askanier. Sophia, the wife of Albrecht the Bear, a Staufer? In: Eckardt Opitz (ed.): Askanier studies of the Lauenburg Academy. Bochum 2010 ( Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture, Herzogtum Lauenburg Foundation. Colloquium 16), ISBN 978-3-89911-132-3 , pp. 49–69, here p. 62.

↑ Michael Menzel : Die Stiftslehen der Mark (1196-1449). In: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands 52 (2006), pp. 55–88, here pp. 58–63; Lorenz Friedrich Beck: The Ascanians in Brandenburg. Dynasty and territorial rule. In: How the Mark came about. 850 years of the Mark Brandenburg. Wünsdorf 2009, pp. 324–337, here pp. 333–335.

^ Heinrich Krabbo (arr.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 105, no. 512 ( digitized version ) after Augustin Theiner (ed.): Vetera monumenta Slavorum Meridionalium historiam illustrantia. Volume 1. Rome 1863, p. 49, No. 81 ( digitized version ).

↑ Chronica principum Saxoniae ampliata , ed. Oswald Holder-Egger ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores 30), Hanover 1896, p. 32 ( digitized version ); Johannes Schultze: The Mark Brandenburg. Volume 1. Berlin 1961, p. 111, unlike Heinrich Krabbo (arr.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from the Ascan family. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 109, no. 526, does not stick to a specific Schönwalde .

↑ ACF Koch (ed.): Oorkondenboek van Holland en Zeeland tot 1299. Volume 1. 's-Gravenhage 1970, pp. 453–455, no. 273–274 ( digitized version ); Heinrich Krabbo (edit.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 110, no.530 ( digitized version ).

↑ Against: Georg Sello: Chronica Marchionum Brandenburgensium. Based on a manuscript from the Trier city library and the pulkawa's excerpts. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History 1 (1888), pp. 111–180, here p. 136, note 10) ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Ada from Holland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wife of Margrave Otto II of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1205

[1] Johannes de Beka , Chronographia 57a, ed. Hans Bruch ( Rijks geschiedkundige publicatiën. Grote serie 143), 's-Gravenhage 1973, p. 117 ( digitized version ). Cf. on the Klaus van Eickels family : The Counts of Holland and the Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 60 (1996), pp. 65–87 ( digitized version ).

[2] Chronica principum Saxoniae , ed. Oswald Holder-Egger ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Scriptores 25), Hanover 1880, p. 477 ( digitized version ); Heinrich Krabbo (edit.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911 ( publications by the Association for the History of the Mark Brandenburg ), p. 109, No. 526 and 527 ( digitized version ). On the marriage policy of the Ascanians, cf. Lorenz Friedrich Beck: The Ascanians in Brandenburg. Dynasty and territorial rule. In: How the Mark came about. 850 years of the Mark Brandenburg. Wünsdorf 2009 ( Research on Archeology in the State of Brandenburg 11) ( Individual publication by the Brandenburg State Main Archives 9), ISBN 978-3-910011-56-4 , pp. 324–337, here p. 332 and Peter Neumeister: Die Frauen der Brandenburgischen Askanier. Sophia, the wife of Albrecht the Bear, a Staufer? In: Eckardt Opitz (ed.): Askanier studies of the Lauenburg Academy. Bochum 2010 ( Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture, Herzogtum Lauenburg Foundation. Colloquium 16), ISBN 978-3-89911-132-3 , pp. 49–69, here p. 62.

[3] Michael Menzel : Die Stiftslehen der Mark (1196-1449). In: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands 52 (2006), pp. 55–88, here pp. 58–63; Lorenz Friedrich Beck: The Ascanians in Brandenburg. Dynasty and territorial rule. In: How the Mark came about. 850 years of the Mark Brandenburg. Wünsdorf 2009, pp. 324–337, here pp. 333–335.

[4] Heinrich Krabbo (arr.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 105, no. 512 ( digitized version ) after Augustin Theiner (ed.): Vetera monumenta Slavorum Meridionalium historiam illustrantia. Volume 1. Rome 1863, p. 49, No. 81 ( digitized version ).

[5] Chronica principum Saxoniae ampliata , ed. Oswald Holder-Egger ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores 30), Hanover 1896, p. 32 ( digitized version ); Johannes Schultze: The Mark Brandenburg. Volume 1. Berlin 1961, p. 111, unlike Heinrich Krabbo (arr.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from the Ascan family. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 109, no. 526, does not stick to a specific Schönwalde .

[6] ACF Koch (ed.): Oorkondenboek van Holland en Zeeland tot 1299. Volume 1. 's-Gravenhage 1970, pp. 453–455, no. 273–274 ( digitized version ); Heinrich Krabbo (edit.): Regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from Ascanic house. Second delivery. Leipzig 1911, p. 110, no.530 ( digitized version ).

[7] Against: Georg Sello: Chronica Marchionum Brandenburgensium. Based on a manuscript from the Trier city library and the pulkawa's excerpts. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History 1 (1888), pp. 111–180, here p. 136, note 10) ( digitized version ).