Bogislaw I. (Pomerania)

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Bogislaw I with his two wives, from the picture family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny (1598).
Equestrian seal of Bogislaw I of Pomerania, 1170
Equestrian seal from Bogislaw I., 1170 - redrawing by F. A. Vossberg 1854

Bogislaw I. (* around 1130 ; † March 18, 1187 in Sosnitza near Altwarp ) was a Duke of Pomerania .

Life

After the death of Bogislaw's father Wartislaw I , his brother Ratibor I took over the government in Pomerania. It was only after the death of Ratibor I in 1155/56 that Bogislaw and his younger brother Casimir I took office. Bogislaw as the elder was the leading of the two brothers; he even used the title of king on coins.

In 1164 Bogislaw and Casimir supported Pribislaw , prince of the Obodrites , in his revolt against Henry the Lion . After the battle of Verchen, which was victorious for Heinrich , Bogislaw and Casimir became Heinrich's feudal people . Bogislaw I remained loyal to Heinrich the Lion until his fall in 1181. At his request, he and Casimir I participated in the conquest of Rügen by the Danes allied with Heinrich in 1168. When the Pomeranian princes and Henry the Lion were left empty-handed in the distribution of the booty, a conflict with the Danes arose . After several campaigns by the Danish king Waldemar I into the Pomeranian area, which were also seen as retaliation for the plundering of Danish territories, Bogislaw I and Casimir I bought peace in 1177 in return for tribute payments.

In 1177/1178 Bogislaw founded the Gramzow Monastery, the first monastery in the Uckermark .

In 1180 Bogislaw's brother Kasimir was probably killed in defense of Demmin against the Brandenburg Margrave Otto I and Bogislaw ruled alone from then on. In 1181, on the occasion of his appearance in the imperial camp in front of Lübeck , Friedrich Barbarossa enfeoffed him with "Slavia". It is uncertain whether this can be seen as a rise to the rank of imperial prince . It is also uncertain which territory exactly should be meant by “Slavia”.

At any rate, Bogislaw could not claim any imperial immediacy . Armed conflicts with Denmark broke out again. An attack by Bogislaw on the principality of Rügen , which was under Danish suzerainty, failed in 1184. After victorious Danish campaigns in 1184/1185, he finally submitted to the Danish King Knut VI in 1185 . and was now his liege. He probably also had to cede parts of his western dominion to the Rügen Principality.

Bogislaw was married to a Walburgis († 1177) for the first time. Their origin is no longer known today; possibly she came from Denmark. With her he had two sons who did not survive him, namely Ratibor († 1183) and Wartislaw († 1184).

After Walburga's death, Bogislaw married Anastasia, a daughter of Mieszkos III. , the Senior Duke of Poland. The presence of Duke Bogislaw in Gniezno , which has been handed down for April 26, 1177, may have a connection with the wedding. Bogislaw died in 1187 and was buried in the Grobe monastery on the Klosterberg near the city ​​of Usedom . He was followed in the government by his sons from his second marriage, Bogislaw II and Casimir II.

His widow Anastasia donated the Marienbusch Premonstratensian Monastery near Treptow an der Rega in 1224 , where she took her widow's seat and after her death - she was last mentioned as alive on May 31, 1240 and died before June 24, 1242 - was buried.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Joachim Wächter : The Principality of Rügen - An overview . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985–1994 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 , pp. 302-303.
  2. ^ Kristina Krüger: Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 380.
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Richter: On the power-political background and goals of the Pomeranian migrations from 1178 to 1180 to Lausitz and the Jüterbog region. Yearbook for the History of Feudalism, 11: 83–104, Berlin 1987.
  4. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania . 2nd Edition. Vol. 1. Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1919. Reprint: Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 , p. 85.
  5. ↑ Martin Wehrmann: History of Pomerania . 2nd Edition. Vol. 1, p. 90.
  6. ^ A b Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house (= publications of the regional historical research center for Pomerania, series 1, volume 5). Stettin 1937, p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Bogislaw I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1130
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1187
Place of death Sosnitza near Altwarp