Bardons

The Bardonen were a Saxon noble family, whose members can be traced from around 850 to 1050. The sex that competed with the Liudolfingers and Billungers could not, unlike them, establish a dominant position.

The Bardonen had possessions with a focus on the Bardengau, probably named after them, on both sides of the Ilmenau, as well as other lands in Marstemgau , Gudingau and Loingau . For the first time in 842 a Count Bardo becomes tangible, whom Ludwig the German sent from Worms to Saxony in order to win the Saxon greats for the side of Ludwig the German in the dispute between the sons of Ludwig the Pious . Around the year 850 this Count Bardo transferred 18 farm positions in Bardengau for the salvation of the deceased Liudulf, brother of Count Cobbo , to the Corvey Monastery. Liudolf was probably married to a sister of Bardo. Roswitha von Liesborn , the first abbess of the Liesborn monastery , is discussed . The brothers Bardo and Boso have been handed down as founders of this monastery.

The Annales Fuldenses reported a permanent weakening of the sex in the year 880 . Then fell in the Norman Battle of 880 " Bardonem, alterum Bardonem et tertium Bardonem ", all sons of Count Bardo, who died in the battle against the Elbe Slavs in 856 . In the 10th century, the family becomes tangible further south, when Ardred, the mother of Bardo, between 919 and 936 referred the Soltau (" curtis salta "), which belongs to her genome , to Heinrich I (eastern France), who was victorious in a dispute with the Bardons. transmits. Further ownership of the bardons can be seen in the period between 984 and 1001 through donations to the Corvey monastery. This included Tellmer and Beverbeck near Lüneburg , but also possessions near Braunschweig and Osnabrück.

swell

Paul Wigand (Ed.): Traditiones Corbeienses . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843. ( digitized version ).

literature

Eric Joseph Goldberg: Popular revolt, dynastic politics, and aristocratic factionalism in the early Middle Ages. The Saxon Stellinga reconsidered. In: Speculum , Vol. 70 (1995), pp. 467-501, in particular from p. 488.
Sabine Krüger: Studies on the Saxon county constitution in the 9th century (= studies and preparatory work for the historical atlas of Northern Germany. Issue 19, ISSN 0933-2960 = publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1950.
Ruth Schölkopf: The Saxon Counts 919-1024 (= studies and preparatory work for the Historical Atlas of Lower Saxony. Volume 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957.

Remarks

↑ Nithard , III c. 7: Bardo vero qui in Saxoniam missus ... .
^ Helmut Müller: The dioceses of the church province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 5. The canon monastery and Benedictine monastery Liesborn. DeGruyter. Berlin, New York 1987 ISBN 978-3-11-011002-9 (Germania sacra NF Vol. 23) p. 66.

[1] Nithard , III c. 7: Bardo vero qui in Saxoniam missus ... .

[2] Helmut Müller: The dioceses of the church province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 5. The canon monastery and Benedictine monastery Liesborn. DeGruyter. Berlin, New York 1987 ISBN 978-3-11-011002-9 (Germania sacra NF Vol. 23) p. 66.