Adelheid von Wassel

Adelheid von Wassel (* around 1175 ; † October 27, 1244 ) was Countess of Ratzeburg .

She was the daughter of Count Konrad II von Wassel and Adelheid von Loccum-Hallermund (daughter of Count Wilbrand I and stepdaughter of Count Günter II von Käfernburg ); Wilbrand von Käfernburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg, was her half-brother.

She was first mentioned in 1189 when she and her sister Fritherun partly sold and partly donated goods to the Marienberg monastery in Helmstedt .

Marriages and children

Adelheid was married twice and had five children known by name.

• 1. ⚭ Count Bernhard II of Ratzeburg († 1198)
  • Bernhard III. († 1199; with him the bathing house of the Counts of Ratzeburg died)
• 2. ⚭ Count Adolf I. von Dassel († 1224)
  • Ludolf IV of Dassel and Nienover († 1223)
  • Adolf III. von Dassel († 1244)
  • Berthold I, Canon in Hildesheim († 1268)
  • Adelheid (* 1224; † September 14, 1262/63) ⚭ 1.) Jens Jakobsen Galen († 1240 in Sorø), son of Jakob Sunesen († 1246), the ruler of Møn, who, like Bishop Absalon von Lund, belonged to the noble family Hvide came from and ⚭ 2.) Ludwig , Count of Ravensberg .
    • Hedwig Johannsdotter Galen comes from Adelheid's marriage to Jens (Johann) Jacobsen and married Count Hermann I von Everstein- Polle; their children were Otto V. von Everstein-Polle and Agnes von Everstein (⚭ Bodo von Homburg).
    • From Adelheid's second marriage to the Count of Ravensberg there are three sons. Of these, Ludwig becomes Bishop of Osnabrück in Iburg Castle .

literature

• Wilhelm Meyer: Adelheid von Ratzeburg . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 76 (1911), pp. 56-60. ( Digitized version )
• Johannes Schildhauer: The Counts of Dassel: Origin and Genealogy. Studies on Einbeck's history, Vol. 3. History Association, Einbeck 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The PEDIGREE of Adelheid (from) DASSEL. In: RootsWeb.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2007 ; accessed on March 4, 2014 (English). 
2. ^ The PEDIGREE of Jens (Johannes) Jacobsen GALEN. In: RootsWeb.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2007 ; accessed on March 4, 2014 (English). 
3. ↑ http://www.gbnf.com/GENEALOG4/sahlin/html/d0129/I5960.HTM
4. ↑ ID: I10692; Name: Adelheid von Wassel. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .