Dietrich von Oldenburg
Dietrich von Oldenburg , called Fortunatus, the lucky one (* 1390 , † February 14, 1440 ) was after the death of his older brother Christian VI. from 1421 sole ruling Count of Oldenburg from the House of Oldenburg . From 1402 to 1407 he lived in Welsburg (municipality of Dötlingen ), which was destroyed by the Bremen in 1407.
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family
Dietrich - son of Count Christian V. von Oldenburg and Countess Agnes von Hohnstein - was first married to Adelheid von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst († around 1404). From his second marriage in 1423 with Heilwig von Holstein (around 1399–1436), daughter of Count Gerhard VI. von Holstein-Rendsburg , the following children came from:
- Adelheid (1425–1475), I ⚭ Ernst III. von Hohnstein († 1454); II ⚭ Gebhard VI. von Mansfeld († 1492)
- Christian (1426–1481), Count of Oldenburg ; King of Denmark , Norway and Sweden ; Duke of Schleswig and Holstein (with this Dietrich created the prerequisites for the royal line of the House of Oldenburg)
- Moritz III. (1428–1464), Count of Delmenhorst
- Gerhard the Brave (1430–1500), Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst
Dietrich had an illegitimate daughter Mette von Wunsflete (* around 1410, † after 1476), who married Rembert Bernefuer (* around 1405, † after 1488), who later became Drosten von Oldenburg, Delmenhorst and Wildeshausen, in 1431 .
Life
Dietrich had inherited from his father Christian V, together with his brother Christian VI. (documented 1394–1421), probably since 1403, next to her cousin Moritz II (documented 1381–1420) share of the rulership rights of the county of Oldenburg. After the deaths of Moritz and Christian, Dietrich, who had not been particularly prominent before, was able to rule alone. In the aftermath, too, his rule remained of little significance, although a feud against Otto von Hoya in 1423 ended with the storming of his Altbruchhausen castle and the capture of the enemy.
In 1426 he took part in the alliance led by Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst , which the East Frisian chief Ocko II. Tom Brok - husband of Dietrich's cousin Ingeborg von Oldenburg - mobilized against his opponent Focko Ukena von Leer . Nikolaus had pledged his inheritance, the county of Delmenhorst , to the Bremen monastery in 1414 and thereby became Archbishop of Bremen. However, the knight army of this alliance was defeated on September 27, 1426 in the Battle of Detern by Focko's peasant army. The Archbishop of Bremen was captured while Dietrich was able to escape. In the peace treaty of 1427 he was then forced to forego any further ambitions to rule within Friesland. However, only a year later, Dietrich was able to renew Oldenburg's position of power on the Frisian Wehde, which was mainly based on Varel . In 1434 he temporarily occupied the Ostringian Friedeburg , was able to force some surrounding parishes to oaths of homage and finally bring Zetel under Oldenburg rule over the long term. Dietrich used the consent of Chief Sibet von Rüstringen, who was already involved in the feud of 1426.
Dietrich was also successful in trying to keep Delmenhorst from the Oldenburg family. The county had already been pledged to the Archbishopric of Bremen in 1414 by the last Delmenhorst Count Nikolaus, who was in debt, for his election and papal confirmation as Archbishop of Bremen in January 1421. Nevertheless, Nikolaus could not solve his financial difficulties and the defeats against Focko Ukena von Leer in 1426 made his situation even worse. In August 1434 he finally had to abdicate as archbishop without clarifying his debt issue. Dietrich Nikolaus came to the rescue in this situation, as Oldenburg ran the risk of losing control of Delmenhorst to the archbishopric with Nikolaus abdication. In doing so, he relied on the older, later agreements with others laid down in a contract of 1370, the superior right of the Oldenburg line of the Count's House to Delmenhorst. Both Nikolaus and Dietrich finally declared the reunification of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg, which they wanted to rule together from then on. With cuts, Dietrich took over the debts of the Delmenhorst rulership and thus withdrew them from the Archbishopric of Bremen. An attempt to regain 1447 failed. Dietrich died in 1440 after the degrading treatment of an Oldenburg canon for reasons that were not further clarified in the church ban . He was buried at night and without priestly prayer in the Lambertikirche in Oldenburg, so at least in consecrated ground.
ancestry
Trivia
Dietrichstrasse in Oldenburg is named after Dietrich.
literature
- Martin Last: Nobility and Count in Oldenburg during the Middle Ages . Oldenburg 1969, p. 144.
- Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk E. Zoller: Schlutter and Welsburg, two low castles. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 789 kB)
- ↑ (Marriage contract October 28, 1431 - Oldenburg Document Book, Vol. II. No. 726)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Joint reign of Moritz II , Christian VI. and Dietrich |
 Count of Oldenburg 1403–1440 |
Christian VII |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietrich von Oldenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Oldenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1390 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1440 |