Dedi (Hassegau)

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Dedi (also Téti , Dadi , Dadanus ; † 957 ) was a count in Hassegau in the middle of the 10th century.

Dedi is mentioned in a document of King Otto I the Great from September 26, 949 as Count des Hassegaus. The year of his death is recorded in the Fulda necrology. He is probably identical with Count Dadi / Dadanus , who is mentioned twice by Widukind von Corvey : Once as a follower of King Otto I, whom he supported in the fight against his rebellious brother Heinrich in 939 and who took several castles from him with a clever ruse. Shortly after 953, however, he was banished by the king, presumably because he had joined the rebellion of Liudolf .

Due to its name, Dedi is a central point of discussion in the historical literature as to the origin of the German nobility of the Wettin family . In his genealogy of the House of Wettin from 1897, Otto Posse sees Count Dedi ( Téti ) as the father of the two nobles Burchard and Dedi who died in the Battle of Cape Colonna (July 13, 982) . He also counts Dietrich I ( Thiedrico ) , the first reliable representative of the Wettins, as his third son.

literature

  • Otto Posse: The Wettins. Genealogy of the Wettin general house. Leipzig 1897.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) DD OI 114, p. 197 ( pago Hassagoi et in confinio Mersapurac in comitatu cuiusdam comitis qui Téti )
  2. ↑ Widukind, Gesta Saxonum , ed. by Paul Hirsch and Hans-Eberhard Lohmann in: MGH SS rer. Germ. 60 (1935), p. 83, chap. 18th
  3. ↑ Widukind, Gesta Saxonum , ed. by Paul Hirsch and Hans-Eberhard Lohmann in: MGH SS rer. Germ. 60 (1935), p. 112, chap. 16
personal data
SURNAME Dedi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teti; Dadi; Dadanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count in Hassegau
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH 957