Bernhard I of Ratzeburg

Bernhard I von Ratzeburg († 1195 ) from the Saxon noble family of Badwiden was Count von Ratzeburg from 1163/1164 to 1195 .

Origin and family

Bernhard I was the eldest son of Count Heinrich von Bathide and a relative unknown by name of King Waldemar the Great of Denmark . Before 1162 he married Margaretha von Schlawe , daughter of the Pomeranian Duke Ratibor I and thus cousin Sophias, wife of the Danish king Waldemar I. The couple had with Volrad († around 1180), Heinrich († around 1190) and Bernhard II. von Ratzeburg († 1198), who followed his father as Count von Ratzeburg, had three sons known by name.

Life

Bernhard is probably identical with the Saxon knight Bernhard, mentioned in the Gesta Danorum by the Danish historiographer Saxo Grammaticus for the year 1160, from whose hand the Abodrite prince Niklot fell. According to this, Bernhard belonged to the Danish contingent that had landed on the island of Poel in August 1160 to support Henry the Lion . He was sailing on a ship with the renegade son of Niklot, Prislav , who also had family connections with the Danish royal family.

When feudal men of Cologne Archbishop Philipp I von Heinsberg occupied Guelph territory near Osnabrück under the leadership of Count Simon von Tecklenburg , Duke Heinrich the Lion sent an army that consisted primarily of the three North Elbian Counts of Schwerin , Holstein and Ratzeburg and the army defeated by the archbishop on August 1, 1179 on the Haler Feld northwest of Osnabrück.

Web links

Wilhelm Meyer: Bernhard I 1161-1195 . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquities, Volume 76 (1911), pp. 32–50. ( Digitized version )

Remarks

^ Friedrich Wigger: Berno, the first bishop of Schwerin, and Meklenburg at his time. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 28, 1863, pp. 3–278, here p. 114, note 1, online .

personal data
SURNAME	Bernhard I of Ratzeburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ratzeburg, Bernhard Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Ratzeburg
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH	1195

[1] Friedrich Wigger: Berno, the first bishop of Schwerin, and Meklenburg at his time. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 28, 1863, pp. 3–278, here p. 114, note 1, online .