Albrecht II (Weimar-Orlamünde)

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Albrecht II, Count of Orlamünde (* after 1182 ; † before October 22, 1245 ) from the Ascanian dynasty was Count of Orlamünde , of Northern or Transalbingia, Holstein , Ratzeburg , Dassow , Lauenburg , Stormarn and Wagrien .

Life

Albrecht was the son of the Danish Princess Sophie, daughter of King Waldemar I of Denmark , and Count Siegfried von Orlamünde . He was also a great-grandson of Albrecht the Bear .

After Waldemar II had completely conquered Holstein and Mecklenburg in 1202 during the controversy between the Staufer Philipp of Swabia and the Guelph Otto IV. , He drove out Count Adolf III. from Schauenburg from Holstein. Presumably as early as 1203 he gave it to Albrecht as a fief, although he had recognized Otto IV as king and Count Siegfried of Orlamünde was on the side of King Philip of Swabia, who was also chosen by him. Albrecht took up residence at Lübeck Castle . To this fiefdom came to him, through his father, who died three years later, and the agreement made with his brother Hermann , a certain part of the Thuringian inheritance, while certain properties were administered jointly by the brothers. But Albrecht owned neither this inheritance nor the Danish fiefdom unchallenged.

His brother Hermann tried to usurp the entire inheritance by force in 1215, which he would have easily succeeded in removing his brother if Landgrave Hermann von Thuringia , whose daughter Hedwig Graf Albrecht had married in 1211, hadn't carried through the company would have thwarted rapid resistance. Albrecht himself against the united enemies of Valdemar, who had to be his, against the Margrave Albrecht II. Of Brandenburg, against Duke Bernhard and since 1212 against his son Duke Albert of Saxony , as against the Archbishop Waldemar von Bremen , the Bishop Philipp von Ratzeburg and Count Gunzelin III. and Heinrich Borwin II of Schwerin , had to fight repeatedly for northern Albingia . These opponents had represented the invalid case of Emperor Otto IV since 1214, since Waldemar had converted to Friedrich II, who had ceded the conquered northern German territories to him. This transfer of the Danish king to the Staufer side was promoted by efforts by Albrecht's father-in-law, the Landgrave of Thuringia and the Margrave of Meissen , the brother-in-law of his wife, so that the Pope now expect stronger support against Otto IV from the Hohenstaufen and the Danish king could.

How seriously the well-being of the church was important to the count during these struggle-filled years is testified by his numerous donations to churches and monasteries, as well as the founding of the Preetz and Hoibeck monasteries . Then, in 1217, when his and Waldemar's enemies were more inclined to a peaceful conclusion than to the continuation of the fight, he left Holstein, accompanied by Count Bernhard von Lippe and a number of brave followers, in order to fulfill his vow made two years ago on a cruise against the to undertake pagan Livonians . He stayed in the heathen country only until the spring of 1218, but he accomplished so many deeds in such a short time that Henry of Latvia could boast that God had put him in his quiver, so to speak, so that he could send him to Livonia at the appropriate time, to free his church from its enemies.

The most difficult tasks then fell to the Count when King Waldemar and his son were captured by Count Heinrich von Schwerin on the island of Lyö on the night of May 6th and 7th in 1223 . Albrecht had worked, if not with the dignity of an imperial governor , at least in an outstanding manner with as much intelligence as energy for the liberation of his uncle. Although he saw his advantage in the treaty concluded between the empire and Denmark on July 4, 1224 and sworn by him, in that he was supposed to own the German land to be surrendered by Waldemar as a vassal of the empire , he quickly made up his mind to let his uncle depend on the decision of the weapons, when the execution of this contract at the meeting of the Germans and Danes, one does not see through whose fault, was broken. In the battle of Mölln (January 1225) Albrecht became the prisoner of the victor, the Count of Schwerin. He remained so when Waldemar was set free on December 21 of this year as a result of the treaty concluded with his opponents, in which he undertook, among other things, not to give his nephew any help to regain his lands. It was not until 1227 after the battle of Bornhöved , whose disastrous outcome for him, robbed Waldemar of the last prospect of repossession of the lost and the liberation of Albrecht, that he bought it by renouncing Lauenburg . From then on he lived mostly in Denmark, limited to the goods his uncle had lent him on the island of Alsen .

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  1. ↑ http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/askanier_2/hedwig_graefin_von_weimar_1247_ludowinger_askanier/hedwig_von_thueringen_graefin_von_weimar_1247.html
  2. ↑ Dr. Jörg Meyn: Thoughts on the origin and early history of the Bergedorf Castle . In Lichtwark booklet No. 68. HB-Werbung publishing house, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2003. ISSN  1862-3549
predecessor Office successor
Hermann I. Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
1176–1245 		Hermann II.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht II of Weimar-Orlamünde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Weimar-Orlamünde (1176-1245)
DATE OF BIRTH after 1182
DATE OF DEATH before October 22, 1245