Dudo von Weisenau

In the second half of the 12th century, Dudo von Weisenau ( Dudo de Wizenowe ) was city treasurer of Mainz and archbishop bailiff of the Weisenau fief , where he had Weisenau Castle built shortly after the middle of the 12th century .

Dudo came from the Mainz ministerial family of the Meingote , who were powerful in the 12th century and held the office of Mainz city treasurer several times at that time. Before him, his brother Meingot had held the office. Dudo is documented several times between 1162 and 1197. The fief given to him by the Archbishop included part of Weisenau ( Wizinowe iuxta Maguntiam ) and the villages of Vilzbach , Hechtsheim and Laubenheim . In Weisenau, Dudo built a castle and from then on called himself Dudo von Weisenau. As the head of the Meingote family in the second half of the 12th century, he was probably also involved in the disputes of his family with Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen , which was led in 1160 in the murder of the Archbishop as part of an uprising by Mainz ministers, citizens and clergymen culminated through the Meingote.

However, Dudo does not seem to have been subject to any permanent punitive measures by the Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa . On the contrary, the Meingote dynasty reached the height of its power under Arnold's successors, Christian I von Buch and Conrad I von Wittelsbach . So Dudo was able to build his own castle in his Bailiwick of Weisenau sometime between 1153 and 1183 . After it was built, Dudo had to offer the castle to the emperor as a fief, although it was under the control of the Archbishop of Mainz. With this, Emperor Friedrich I extended his own sphere of influence right up to the gates of Mainz and Dudo possibly obtained the emperor's grace for himself and his family after the events of 1160. The Archbishop of Mainz Konrad von Wittelsbach was later able to return the Enforce castle on the still living dudo.

Dudo, son of Dudo and Gisela, had two sons, Embricho and Christian . The latter was first provost of St. Viktor, later from 1249 to 1251 as Christian II von Bolanden (actually: Christian von Weisenau) Archbishop of Mainz. The von Weisenau family died out as early as 1215 with Embricho V. Since Dudo was related by marriage to Werner II von Bolanden , his property passed into the hands of the von Bolanden family after the family died out in 1215.

literature

• Franz Dumont (ed.), Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city. Zabern, Mainz 1999 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-8053-2000-0 .
• Ludwig Falck : History of the City of Mainz Volume II: Mainz in the early and high Middle Ages (middle of the 5th century to 1244) . Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972

Web links

• Stefan Grathoff: On the history of Weisenau Castle