Friedrich von Stade

Friedrich von Stade (* unknown; † April 13, 1135 ) managed to rise from the status of a non-free ministerial to the free Count of Stade .

Friedrich belongs to the descendants of a noble Englishwoman who was shipwrecked on the coast of the county of Stade and thus came into the hands of the Udons . He first appears around 1095, earlier mentions that refer to a Vogt of the Archbishopric of Bremen cannot be assigned to Friedrich von Stade. From Lothar Udo III. , who concentrated on his dominion in the Nordmark , he was entrusted in 1095 with the administration of the entire county of Stade. As Lothar Udo III. He died in 1106, leaving behind a son, Heinrich IV, who was only four years old. His uncle Rudolph I took over the guardianship for him, leaving Friedrich in the position of Vice Count of the County of Stade.

Around 1110 Friedrich tried to gain recognition as a suitor from Emperor Heinrich V by paying 40 gold marks . Rudolph I and the Duke of Saxony Lothar von Süpplingenburg tried to prevent this by reporting Friedrich to the emperor for exceeding his powers. Archbishop Friedrich I of Bremen also claimed Friedrich as a slave for the Bremen church . On the way to the emperor's verdict, Frederick was captured by Rudolph I in 1111 and arrested in Salzwedel until 1112 . The emperor intervened in the dispute, freed Friedrich, briefly relieved Rudolph I and Lothar von Süpplingenburg of their offices and reinstated the ministerial as Count of Stade. Since after the defeat at the Battle of the Welfesholz no further support from the emperor was to be expected, Friedrich now allied himself with Lothar von Süpplingenburg. The Duke supported Friedrich, among other things by building the Vörde Castle . In addition, Friedrich was able to balance himself with the archbishop. In 1123 Rudolph I and Heinrich IV moved together against Stade and Friedrich had to flee. After the death of Rudolph I in 1124, Friedrich had secured the county of Stade for himself, Heinrich IV was virtually powerless here. When Lothar von Süpplingenburg became king in 1125, Friedrich received his long-sought freedom. After the death of Heinrich II. In 1128 he was officially enfeoffed by Archbishop Adalbero of Bremen with the county of Stade.

After the death of Frederick in 1135, the county of Stade fell back to the Udonen. Friedrich was buried in the Harsefeld Monastery next to the other Counts of Stade.

literature

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Friedrich, Count of Stade . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 37 f.
• Richard Hucke:  Friedrich, Count of Stade. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 591 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Albert von Stade : Annales Stadenses ( Die Weltchronik Albert von Stades ), translation: Leipzig 1892 ( full text at Wikisource )
• Eckhard Danneberg, Heinz-Joachim Schulze (Hrsg.): History of the country between Elbe and Weser , Volume II: Middle Ages . Landscape association of the former duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 1995, ISBN 3-9801919-8-2 , p. 82 ff.
• Dieter Riemer : Counts and gentlemen in the ore monastery of Bremen in the mirror of the history of Lehes , Hamburg-Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-923-725-89-2 , pp. 70–81
• Wolfgang Petke: Friedrich von Stade, Ministeriale der Graf von Stade († 1135) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 961.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Reineke: Studies on Bailiwick and Territorial Development in the Archdiocese of Bremen (937-1184) . Stader History and Local History Association, Stade 1971.