Edo Wiemken the Elder

East Frisia at the time of the chiefs .

Edo Wiemken the Elder , also Ede Wymken or Wummeken (attested from 1382 ; † 1415 ) was an East Frisian chief of the districts of Östringen and Rüstringen and of Bant and the Wangerland .

Life

Edo was the son of a Wimeke or Wimke, who probably belonged to the locally powerful chiefs in the Rüstringische Landesviertel Bant. Wimeke probably played a more important role there in the middle of the 14th century. According to a copy of the Banter Missal handed down from the middle of the 16th century, his son Edo is said to have been elected leader against the Counts of Oldenburg by the Rüstringen state community in 1355 . This information is questionable, at least when it comes to the year, as Edo in 1355 was neither of the age, nor the experience nor the reputation to entrust him with the management of the ruined national defense. Otherwise he would have lived a longer than average. The assumption that he was made head of the state in 1368 to defend against the troops of the Oldenburg and the Archdiocese of Bremen that had invaded the region at Blexen does not seem likely. The fight that was successful for the Frisians on the Coldewärf field near Atens was probably fought by the Butjaders alone, and not by all the Rüstringers.

If one wants to hold on to the assumption that Edo was elected Rüstringen regional leader against Oldenburg, 1377 or 1378 seems likely. Edo describes himself as chief in the "verdendele to den Bante boven Yade" in the first document he has handed down from May 30, 1384. In it he appears as an ally of the city of Bremen , Count Konrad II of Oldenburg and the chief of the Stadland Dide Lubben against the Esenshamm- based chief Husseko Hayen . The motivation for this alliance on Wiemken's side was a feeling of revenge for his sister, who, as Husseko Hayen's wife, was cast out by him.

Edo's ambitions went well beyond Rüstringen and Bant. He interfered in the power rivalries of larger and smaller chiefs in and around the land of Östringen, which borders on Rüstringen to the northwest, and was able to bring some Östringian parishes under his rule. For example, after the murder of Poppyck Ynen Tiarksena zu Innhausen by Edo in 1387, via Innhausen Castle and the parish of Sengwarden belonging to it . In the 1390s, he probably exercised public authority in Jever as well . To protect his country, he probably founded the first fortification in the village and was thus the founder of Jever Castle. In addition, he consolidated his political influence, especially in Butjadingen, through family relationships, such as with the chief von Alnahm , his nephew Nanke Düren and Lubbe Sibets (attested 1397-1420) in Burhave , his son-in-law and his brother Memme zu Waddens. Accordingly, he controlled large parts of the old Rüstringen directly or indirectly.

His sense of self also appeared in his well-built castle in 1383 Bant evident that bears his name Edenburg , by his grandson and successor as chief in 1416 Sibet Lubbenson in Sibetsburg has been renamed. The plant, which according Lübeck judgment (1432) "eyn MechTig slot" was, was not far from the place Schaar , who at that time about the Maadebucht direct access to the North Sea had.

Perhaps as early as 1397, certainly 1398 and occasionally later, Edo Wiemken offered pirates refuge. If he saw advantages in this, he also participated in piracy and, like many East Frisian chiefs, made part of his livelihood. He particularly distinguished himself as the host of the Vitalienbrüder , which is why the first punitive expedition of the Hanseatic League was directed against him: on July 4, 1398, he had to assure Lübeck, Bremen and Hamburg that he would withdraw his protection from the Vitalienbrothers and expel them from his area .

In 1405, in the context of a Hanseatic - Dutch conflict, he was captured by the Dutch - in an apparently insidious manner. In 1496 it was said that he had been imprisoned in The Hague for almost a whole year and that he had to be released from his "undersaten" with 14,000 gold gulden .

In 1408 Edo Wiemken allied himself with Count Moritz from Oldenburg and other East Frisian chiefs to prevent the city of Bremen from building the Vredeborg near Atens . The company failed, however.

In 1414 Edo took part - rather reluctantly - in the expulsion of Dide Lubben from the Stadland by the Bremen and Oldenburgers.

Family and offspring

On May 8, 1414, he was mentioned for the last time in a document. Since his only son Dodeko - from his marriage to Etta von Dangast - had already died in 1391, his grandson Sibet (attested 1416; † 1433), son of Lubbe Sibets (attested 1387; † 1420) joined Burhave and Frouwa, daughter Edo Wiemkens to succeed him as chief in Bant.

Edo Wiemken the Elder Ä. was also the step-grandfather of Hayo Harlda (Harles), step-great-grandfather of his son Tanno Duren and thus step-great-great-grandfather of his son Edo Wiemken the Younger .

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• Edo Wiemken the Elder. In: 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 , pp. 164-165 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Husseko Hayen's biography . In: 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 , pp. 341-342 ( online ).
2. ↑ Hartmut Roder : Klaus Störtebeker - Chief of the Vitalienbrüder . In: Hartmut Roder (Ed.): Pirates - Lords of the Seven Seas . Temmen, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-536-4 , p. 41.
3. ↑ Matthias Puhle : The Vitality Brothers. Klaus Störtebeker and the pirates of the Hanseatic era . 2nd revised edition. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-593-34525-0 , p. 111.
4. ↑ Biography of Moritz II, Count von Oldneburg. In: 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 , pp. 477-378 ( online ).