Badwiden

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The Badwiden were a (Lower) Saxon noble family who ruled the counties of Holstein and Stormarn in northern Albingia in the 12th century and then the county of Ratzeburg until it died out in the male line in 1199 .

history

A documented member of the family was Heinrich von Badewide (also Badwide , Badwede , Bodwede , Bodewide , Bodwide , Badewin ), a noble freelancer based on estates in and around Bodwede (today Bode) near Ebstorf in the Lüneburg Heath . He was appointed Count of Holstein and Stormarn by Albrecht the Bear in 1137 , had to give way to the previous incumbent Adolf II von Schauenburg in 1139 , and then acquired the property from him in 1138 by buying it from Duchess Gertrud, the widow of Heinrich the Stolzen , who died in October 1139 / 39 conquered the landscape of Wagrien , and was enfeoffed in 1143 by Duke Heinrich the Lion as Count with the Gau Polabien with the main town of Ratzeburg , thus creating the County of Ratzeburg. Heinrich was also Vogt of the newly established diocese of Ratzeburg in 1154 . He was married to a relative of the Danish King Waldemar I , unknown by name , and died in 1163 or 1164.

Heinrich was succeeded by his son Bernhard I († 1195) as Count of Ratzeburg. He was married to Margaretha von Schlawe , daughter of Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania . The couple had three children known by name: Volrad (X around 1180), Heinrich (X around 1190) and Bernhard II († 1198).

Since his two older brothers Volrad and Heinrich had already fallen, Bernhard II , who was initially intended for a career in the church , inherited his father as Count von Ratzeburg. He died in 1198.

From the marriage of Bernhard II with Adelheid von Wassel († 1244) came a son, Bernard III, who died as a child only one year after his father. With him, the Badwiden dynasty died out in the male line. After the death of her husband and son, Adelheid married Count Adolf I von Dassel , who thereby acquired the County of Ratzeburg, but in May 1200 (or 1201) after the lost battle of Waschow to King Canute VI. of Denmark lost.

literature

  • Peter von Kobbe , History and Description of the Country of the Duchy of Lauenburg, First Part, Hammerich, Altona, 1836; photomechanical reprint 1979, Verlag Harro von Hirschheydt, ISBN 3-7777-0062-2 ; at Google Books
  • Wilhelm Bernhardi : Konrad III .; First part: 1138-1145, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1883, pp. 317-318; at Google Books
  • Wilhelm Meyer: "History of the Counts of Ratzeburg and Dannenberg." In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 76. Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1911; On-line
  • August Seidensticker , Legal and Economic History of North German Forests, especially in the State of Hanover, Dieterich'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Göttingen, 1896, p. 60; at Google Books
  • Eckardt Opitz (ed.): Duchy of Lauenburg. The country and its history , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-02060-5 .