Alko the bad

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Alko the Evil (Quade Alke) or Alko Onneken (documented from 1447; † 1474 ) was chief of Innhausen . He came from the sex of the Onneken, which since the union of the two rulers by his son only calls himself Innhausen and Knyphausen .

origin

His father was Iko Onneken the Elder († 1454), chief of Langwarden , Rodekerken, Innhausen , Gödens and Syllhues, who had received the lordship of Innhausen as a dowry from his first wife Hilleda Tiarksena. Hilleda's father, Chief Poppyck Ynen Tiarksena zu Innhausen, was through Edo Wiemken the Elder. Ä. , Chief of the districts of Östringen , Rüstringen and Bant , the Wangerland and Jever , was murdered. Hilleda's mother was a ramera from Oldeborg . Iko Onneken already had claims and a share in the property of the Kniphausen estatewhich he left to his nephew, Lubbo Onneken, chief of Burhave and Hogewelte. After the death of his first wife, Chief Iko was still married to Hisa Kankena and then to Tetta von Roffhausen . Alko's marriage to Tetta was born. The branch of the Innhausen family in Courland or Livonia is said to have descended from his brothers Wilko and Gerko .

How he got the nickname "the bad guy"

Hillede, Iko Onneken's wife, had inherited Innhausen from her father, Poppyck Ynen. When Hillede died without an heir, Innhausen fell to her sister Hyse, who also died without living descendants and bequeathed Innhausen to her uncle Hero Aunties. Iko gave his daughter from his second marriage, Tyader, to the Hero Tantsen, and Hero took Tyader's half-brother Alko with him to Innhausen Castle as bailiff. One day when Hero was riding out with his servants and returning to the castle, he found the gate closed; Alko had appropriated Innhausen Castle and never gave it back. Innhausen came into the possession of the Innhausen and Knyphausen family.

Politics as a chief

Alko thus followed his father Iko Onneken as chief in Innhausen. As an ally of Chief Tanno Duren von Jever and Count Gerd the Brave of Oldenburg , who was also notorious as a road and pirate, Alko the Evil was captured in a battle against Count Ulrich Cirksena of East Frisia and Chief Sibet Attena von Esens in 1457, but soon afterwards released again. In 1460 Alko renewed the old alliance between him and the chiefs Tanno von Jever, Lubbo Onneken von Knyphausen, Cirk (Sirich) von Friedeburg and Edo von Gödens. In 1472 he concluded an alliance with Theda Cirksena , Countess and Regent of East Friesland, and the Gronans against Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy and soon after this alliance with Countess Theda agreed to a war against Count Gerd the Brave of Oldenburg and Cirk of Friedeburg . After the death of Chief Tannos von Jever, Alko became the guardian of his children and an outstanding regent of Jever. However, he declined various requests made to him to take full possession of Jever.

Marriages

Through his first wife Awa, daughter of Chief Hayko Ukena von Leer , a descendant of Focko Ukena , and Addas, daughter of Countess Theda of East Friesland, Alko der Böse was closely related to the House of Cirksena, which ruled East Friesland . His second wife was Hyma, daughter of Haitet zu Uiterstewehr in the Krummhörn . Folef Alksen came from this marriage.

successor

Folef Alksen (* around 1460; † Brussels 1531) succeeded his father as chief in Innhausen, inherited the rule of Kniphausen from his cousin Iko Onneken the Younger in 1496 and called himself chief or lord of Innhausen and Knyphausen, whatever name his descendants have been since then has retained. Folef zu Inn- und Knyphausen lived in harmony with his relatives, the Counts of East Friesland, partly at their court. With Count Enno and Edzard , he even undertook a trip to Jerusalem in 1489 , where they were knighted by the Holy Tomb , and returned from there in 1491. In contrast, he lived in a dispute with chief Edo Wiemken the Elder. J. von Jever . Folef and his wife Hyma Bindelef Beninga , daughter of Ubbo Beninga zu Upleward and Hebrich Beninga zu Grimersum , had 16 children, including twelve sons who, with the exception of his youngest son and heir, Tido Folefsen (* 1500; † 1565), all in Acts of war died.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ehrentraut, HG (ed.): Frisian archive. Vol. 1. Oldenburg iO 1854, pp. 140 ff.
  2. ↑ Reign of Knyphausen: Iko Onneken the Younger in Knyphausen was the son of Lubbo Onneken, chief of Burhave and honored. Lubbo was a great-grandson of the common progenitor Onneko zu Langwarden, Gödens and Syllhues (around 1300), who incidentally was a tribe and coat of arms with Edo Wiemken (Bran / Archenholz, Minerva (1827), p. 222 f.). Iko Onneken the Elder of Langwarden (Alco's father) had left his claim to Knyphausen to his nephew Lubbo. With the expiry of the line to Knyphausen, Knyphausen fell back to Folef Alksen Onneken zu Innhausen in 1496, as a grandson of Iko Onneken the elder.
personal data
SURNAME Alko the bad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Onneken, Alko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1474