Esico von Ballenstedt

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Esico (also ESIKO or Esichos * to 990 / 1000 ; † after 1059, probably in 1060 ) was Count in Swabia , resin and Hardagau. He is the earliest known ancestor of the Ascanians .

Life

Esiko was the son of a father ( Adalbert ) who was not known by name , who was the governor of the monasteries Nienburg and Hagenrode, and a daughter ( Hidda ) of margrave Hodo I of the Ostmark, who was unknown by name . It is uncertain whether Uta , wife of Margrave Ekkehard II of Meißen and Hazecha , abbess of the Gernrode monastery, were his sisters.

It was first mentioned in 1036 in a document from King Conrad II . In it, as in all other documents, he was only referred to as Count ( comes Hesicho ) without any further addition. Only the Annalista Saxo in the 13th century referred to it as Esicus de Ballenstide . Probably around 1043 he founded a collegiate monastery of St. Pancratius and Abundus at Ballenstedt Castle.

The area of ​​his county is only roughly known. It was in the Swabian, Harz and Hardagau. Esico had probably inherited allodies in various areas through his mother , but the count's rights in these areas did not completely pass to him. It is unlikely that he could have owned properties in the Slavic area east of the Elbe and cannot be proven.

Esico was mentioned a total of nine times in documents of its time, the last time in 1059. Since the last written mention is dated to the year 1059, it can be assumed that Esico died shortly afterwards, probably in 1060.

Marriage and offspring

Esiko was married to a Mathilde, probably Mathilde von Schwaben, daughter of Duke Hermann II of Swabia (or Mathilde von Werl?). Children were

  • Otto
  • Adalbert II , Count of Ballenstedt
  • Adelheid ∞ Thiemo, Edler von Schraplau (details of both not known)

literature

  • Helmut Assing : The early Ascanians and their wives. Kulturstiftung Bernburg 2002, p. 6 f.
  • Lutz Partenheimer : Albrecht the Bear. Founder of the Mark Brandenburg and the Principality of Anhalt. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-06301-0 , pp. 15-22.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Anhaltinus (CDA) I, No. 111, DD K II No. 234.
  2. ↑ for the year 1025 (!). In: Klaus Naß (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 37: Die Reichschronik des Annalista Saxo. Hanover 2006 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ), p. 337 , also Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 6: Chronica et annales aevi Salici. Hanover 1844 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ), p. 676.
  3. ↑ cf. Partenheimer, with assumptions about other possessions.
  4. ^ But so Lutz Partenheimer: Albrecht the bear. Founder of the Mark Brandenburg and the Principality of Anhalt. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-06301-0 , p. 20 and Helmut Assing : Brandenburg, Anhalt and Thuringia in the Middle Ages. Ascanians and Ludovingians building princely territorial rule. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-412-02497-X .
  5. ↑ 1036: Codex diplomaticus Anhaltinus . (CDA). I, No. 111; 1041: CDA I, No. 112; 1043: CDA I, No. 115; 1043: CDA I, No. 116; 1043: CDA V, No. 116a ; 1043: CDA I, No. 117; 1046: CDA I, No. 122; 1051: CDA I, No. 129; 1059: CDA I, No. 16, there only as Esicho without clear assignment to his person ..
  6. ^ Lutz Partenheimer: Albrecht the bear. Founder of the Mark Brandenburg and the Principality of Anhalt. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-06301-0 , p. 22.
  7. ↑ Klaus Naß (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 37: Die Reichschronik des Annalista Saxo. Hannover 2006 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ), ISBN 3-7752-5537-0 . Pp. 363, 592, 658
personal data
SURNAME Esico von Ballenstedt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esiko; Esichos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Ballenstedt
DATE OF BIRTH around 990
DATE OF DEATH around 1060