Egilmar II (Oldenburg)

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Count Egilmar II (documented 1108–1142) is one of the ancestors of the House of Oldenburg .

family

We are well informed about the family members of Egilmar II from a deed of foundation for the Iburg monastery near Osnabrück from 1108. His father Egilmar I was married to Richenza, a daughter of Ida von Elsdorf. Ida von Elsdorf is praised by Albert von Stade as a relative of an emperor and a pope of noble origins and great wealth. Their exact assignment has been an unsolved mystery for over 100 years. Since Ida von Elsdorf was married three times, Richenza's father is not certain either. Presumably it was the Saxon Count Palatine Dedo von Goseck who was murdered in 1056. His brother and thus Richenza's alleged uncle was Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen. The document from 1108 shows that Count Egilmar I had a brother Giselbert, who was a cleric - perhaps a canon in Osnabrück. The worldly top witness, the nobleman Giselbert, is likely to have been an older relative of the two brothers, Count Egilmar I and Giselbert. In 1108 Egilmar II had an older brother Christian and a sister Gertrud.

Egilmar II was married to Eilika von Werl-Rietberg, daughter of Count Heinrich von Rietberg and Countess Beatrix von Hildrizhausen . The following children were born from the marriage:

Inheritance from Ida von Elsdorf

After Albert von Stade , Egilmar II requested the inheritance of his grandmother Ida von Elsdorf from the administrator of the county of Stade, Vice-Count Friedrich von Stade, who came from the ministry of the Udones, and received a rich settlement. Presumably, Friedrich von Stade tried to win Egilmar's vote in the Saxon prince's court, because at that time he was trying to prove his free origins and thus feudal capacity there through witnesses.

Castles

It is not known whether Count Egilmar II already resided in Oldenburg.

His father may have been count of the castle Jadele (he) (nowadays just a sandbank in the Jade Bay) in order to control the Frisian counties of the archbishopric Hamburg-Bremen from there.

According to the chronicle of the Oldenburg house monastery Rastede , several nobles were driven out by the Frisians who had to retreat to two castles in Zwischenahn and Elmendorf on the Zwischenahner Meer. The St. Johannes Church in Bad Zwischenahn , the third oldest church in the Ammerland district, was named after the wording of a document in the archives of the parish ("Inventory of the Church") from the year 1774 by Count Egilmar I ("Elimaro dem first “) built in 1124. Since Egilmar I probably died before 1112, it must have been Egilmar II. The chronicler of the Rastede monastery also mistook father and son. After the donors were entered in the Book of Life, it seems that they no longer even knew that there were two Count Egilmar. The monastery chronicle shows that Egilmar II's daughter Beatrix and her husband, the nobleman Friedrich von Ampfurt, often stayed in Elmendorf Castle.

As the guardian of his wife, Egilmar II also owned Rietberg Castle, after which he was named in the Cologne royal chronicle in 1141.

Convent bailiffs

The castle Jadele (he) could have been converted by Egilmar II into the St. Vitus monastery attested there when it could no longer be held against the Frisians. This was the usual method of securing the pertinence of the former castle through the monastery bailiwick. The Bailiwick for Jadele can only be developed.

Egilmar II, however, is documented as Vogt of the Alexander Monastery in Wildeshausen. He probably owed this position to his position as a descendant of the founding family of Duke Widukinds - the so-called Immedinger - through his mother Richenza. Their alleged father, Count Palatine Dedo von Goseck, was definitely one of the Immedingers, as his brother Archbishop Adalbert, as the highest-ranking clerical dignitary of the clan, was able to exercise the rectorate of Wildeshausen. Egilmar's wife Eilika also had immediate ancestors, so there was a double entitlement.

After all, Egilmar II was Vogt of the Rastede Monastery, consecrated in 1091, which goes back to a church founded in 1059 by Count Huno and his wife Willa. According to tradition, he succeeded a Count Friedrich in this office, who was passed down as the only son of Huno and Willa. Probably his predecessor in the monastery bailiwick was Count Friedrich der Arnsberg, who died in 1124, and the paternal uncle of his wife Eilika von Werl-Rietberg.

feud

In 1141, the Cologne royal chronicle reports a major feud by Egilmar against Count Ekbert von Tecklenburg and Otto von Ravensberg. Allegedly Egilmar II lost the first armed conflict in order to then take his adversaries prisoner. It seems to have been disputed about the Eilika inheritance claims to Widu Indian inheritance in Osnabrück's Nordland. The feud probably did not go as well for Egilmar II as claimed in the chronicle. It most likely ended with the marriage between Egilmar's daughter Eilika and Heinrich von Tecklenburg. Eilika d. J. received a huge dowry from the disputed property.

death

In 1142 Egilmar II was attested for the last time as the most distinguished vassal of the Archbishop of Bremen. According to the most recent deliberations of Hucker, he is said to have been slain by his brother Count Christian between 1142/1153, but this does not seem certain. He and his wife found his burial place in the monastery in Jadele.

literature

  • Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Fratricide in the Oldenburg house. Struggle for rule and power in the 12th century. In: Margarethe Pauly: The early Oldenburg counts. Isensee, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-534-7 , pp. 47–64 with extensive references to older literature pp. 64–68.
  • Heinrich Schmidt : Egilmar II. In: Hans Friedl (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg , pp. 167–168 (PDF; 8.4 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Heinrich Schmidt: Oldenburg. History of the city of Oldenburg. Volume 1, Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-400-0 , p. 18ff.
  2. ↑ a b cf. Hans Friedl (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg. Isensee-Verlag, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 167
  3. ↑ Dieter Riemer Saxon inheritance law and the "Iden-Gut" In: Wolfgang Dörfler / Luise Knoop / Bernd Ulrich Hucker (eds.) The year 1112, Ida von Elsdorf and her contemporaries Rotenburger Schriften 92 (2012) pp. 17–43
  4. ↑ Cf. Dieter Zoller : Chronicle of the Bad Zwischenahn community. People, history, landscape. Schmücker, Bad Zwischenahn 1994, p. 474ff., P. 520
predecessor Office successor
Egilmar I. Oldenburg Stammwappen.png
Count of Oldenburg 		Christian I.
personal data
SURNAME Egilmar II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH before 1108
DATE OF DEATH 1142