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The count family of Esikonen (also Asig clan , later: Count von Reinhausen ) goes back to the Saxon noble Hiddi (attested around 813). As a supporter of Charlemagne , he had to leave his country and was presumably installed by Emperor Karl at Wolfsanger in the Kaufunger Wald (near Kassel ) as a count in the Saxon Hessengau that arose on the central Diemel . Hiddi had three sons: Folkbold, Adalbald and Esiko (also Asig, short for Adalrich). After Esiko, who was the son-in-law of Saint Ida von Herzfeld due to his marriage to Ida the Younger , the family from which the noble lords of Itter emerged was named. The descendants of Esiko were related to the Carolingians through Ida von Herzfeld .

The sex of the Esikonen belonged to:

  • Hiddi (Hildebold), attested in 813, count in the Saxon Hessengau
  • Asig (Esiko) , son of Hiddis, attested in 839 and 842, count in the Saxon Hessengau; married to Ida, a daughter of Count Ekbert , Dux ( Duke ) of the Saxons ( Ekbertiner ), and St. Ida von Herzfeld
  • Cobbo the Younger , attested around 890, count in the Saxon Hessengau

In the middle of the last decade of the 9th century, the count's rights in the Saxon Hessengau came to the Conradines temporarily for unknown reasons ; Count Konrad the Elder is attested in 897.

After the rebellion and the death of Duke Eberhard von Franken in the Battle of Andernach in 939, King Otto I took the Saxon Hessengau as an imperial fief. The next Es icon attested as Count there was:

  • Elli I. (Allo), † after 965, Count in the Saxon Hessengau 942–965, Count in Leinegau around 950.

After Ellis death, the Saxon Hessengau was combined with the Leinegau , but later separated from it again. The Esikonen family became the Counts of Reinhausen, and later of Winzenberg-Reinhausen:

  • Reinward or Regenwerc, attested in 973, 974, Graf im Gau Nithersi (= Ittergau )
  • Asicho or Esik, testifies to 980, Graf im Ittergau and Nethegau
  • Reinwerk, attested 1022/23, part bailiff of the Paderborn church
  • Elli II von Reinhausen (* around 1010), Count in Leinegau.

Count Reinwerk's successor Widherold is traceable from 1051 to 1076 in the entourage of the Paderborn bishop Imad and was referred to there as "Noble Lord von Itter". His rule was no longer that of a count, but probably only referred to the Ittergau, perhaps only to the southern part of it, the later rule of Itter .