Edo Wiemken the Younger

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The Jever reign around 1500
Edo Wiemken monument in Jever

Edo Wiemken the Younger (* around 1454 ; † April 19, 1511 ) was an East Frisian chief and the last male regent of the Jever rule from the Wiemkens chief family. Around 50 years after his death, he was buried by his daughter and successor in the reign, Maria von Jever , in a magnificent tomb in the town church in Jever .

Life

Edo Wiemken the Younger was born as the son of Tanno Duren (attested from 1442; † 1468) and his first wife Teite tor Oldeborch - apparently he was their oldest son. His date of birth cannot be determined exactly. After the death of his father in 1468, he succeeded his father as chief of the Jever rule as a teenager , but was initially represented by his guardian Alke von Inhausen. According to oral tradition, this ensured a problem-free succession of Edo Wiemken's power when he showed the assembled Östringern , Rüstringern and Wangerlanders the child in his arms and obtained the loyalty of the subjects. Claims that Edo Boings von Gödens , as already after the death of Hayo Harlda (attested in 1420; † 1441), Edo's grandfather, made on Rüstringen and reinforced with an attack on the fortified church of Seediek , were rejected. It is unclear since when Edo “selvest regeert” without a guardian. In July 1472 he is attested as the "swagher" (here: son-in-law) of the chief Sibet Attena von Esens , so he was at least already engaged to his daughter Frouwe. Close ties to Harlingerland , after Sibet's death with his son Hero Omken , remained a constant in Edo's politics. They were absolutely necessary, since Edo as sovereign had two main tasks to master, on the one hand the defense against East Frisian claims on the Jever rule and on the other hand the maintenance of the dikes in a time of numerous sea invasions .

Since 1464, the Counts of East Frisia from the East Frisian noble family Cirksena raised claims to the Harlingerland as well as to the rule of Jever. From 1495 to 1497 Count Edzard I invaded the Jeverland and won a victory at Siebetshaus near Schortens and besieged the city of Jever. Edo, however, had fled to Wangerooge . Only the intervention of the Bishop of Munster , another opponent of Edzard I, prevented the Jever rule from being incorporated into the county of East Frisia . Since 1495, the East Frisian count justified his claim to Jever with a forgery, confirmed by King Maximilian I , of the feudal letter of Emperor Friedrich III issued for Ulrich I. Cirksena in 1464 . In 1497 Edzard I tried to take a serious illness in Edo (allegedly poisoning) to take Jever by surprise, but failed again because Jever had been warned in good time.

The East Frisian efforts intertwined with the conflict between Edo and Fulf (also Folef) von Inhausen, the son of Alcos des Evil, over the rule of Kniphausen . In 1495, shortly before his death, Iko von Kniphausen installed his mother Binlef, the widow of Lubbe Onneken as heiress of the castle, and his cousin Fulf von Inhausen as heirs - contrary to the property claims that Edo raised. Fulf found support from Edzard von Ostfriesland, to whom he entrusted Kniphausen as a fief and who finally enfeoffed him in 1505 with castle and glory. Edo could neither militarily nor politically prevent this development and with it the permanent loss of Kniphausen and the Inhausen associated with this chief rule for the Jeverland, especially since the chiefs had sided with the Cirksena. Also it lacked the means Claims, which he called descendant of Lubbe Sibets (testifies 1397-1420) of Burhave and Stadländer chief Dide Lubben on the country rule in Butjadingen and Stadland rose to realize. The Counts of Oldenburg promised him help in this matter in 1492 and referred to von Butjadingen and Stadland as “synen land and load”, but Edo then had to watch as Count Johann V had been trying to conquer the Frisian Wesermarsch from Edzard since 1498 I. for Oldenburg tried and even gave him military help in 1501, together with Hero Omken von Esens. Permanently dependent on the support of his more powerful neighbors against Edzard, in 1499, like Johann V von Oldenburg a few days earlier, he came under the sovereignty of the Bishop of Munster in order to secure his help.

For Edo, Jever's relationship with Oldenburg became more important in the long run. After the death of his first wife Frouwe von Dornum (1497), Edo married Heilwig, sister of Count Johann von Oldenburg, in 1498, thus strengthening the already older political relationships. At the same time, this marriage confirmed the chief zu Jever in his noble, sovereign, dynastic self-image and set him apart from the insignificant parish chiefs. The claim to a parish autonomy of the estates , as it had been politically relevant under Edo's ancestors and even under Edo's father Tanno Duren, no longer existed. This development also marks the development that the "gemenen land" granted him the cow treasure , a tax that they had granted annually in 1495 and 1496, since 1497, so that the "hus Jever", the castle, "wol Verwart" could be. Edo expanded the castle at Jever, improved its fortifications and made it more representative. She was named after the rule and was a point of identification of the surrounding "gemenen land".

Family and succession

Edo's first marriage was to Fruwe Attena, daughter of Sibet Attena and sister of the chief Hero Omken the Elder . J. von Dornum, Esens, Stedesdorf and Wittmund married. The marriage resulted in three daughters, who, like their mother, all died in 1497. After the death of his first wife, he married Heilwig von Oldenburg, a daughter of Gerd the Brave von Oldenburg and sister of Count Johann V von Oldenburg , who ruled the county of Oldenburg from 1483 to 1526. With this marriage he created family relationships with the House of Oldenburg , which supported him in his dispute with the East Frisian counts. Edo had four children with Heilwig. The twins, Christoph and Anna, born in 1499 , the future regent Maria, born a year later, and their daughter Dorothea in 1501, whose mother died in 1501, come from the marriage . He also left an illegitimate son, Melchior.

House Wiemken

Edo Wiemken the Elder , chief of the districts Östringen and Rüstringen as well as of Bant and the Wangerland, was the grandfather of Sibet Lubbenson and step-grandfather of Hayo Harlda , step-great-grandfather of his son Tanno Düren and thus step-great-great-grandfather of his son Edo Wiemken dem Younger ones.

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Web links

  • Known people from Jever , accessed October 9, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Brune Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987, Volume 1, p. 235
  2. ^ Heinrich Schmidt: Edzard I .. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (PDF; 91 kB), accessed on August 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wiemken, Edo the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent of the Jever rule
DATE OF BIRTH around 1454
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1511