Walpode
Walpode or Walpod is a historical official designation that is particularly widespread in the Rhineland .
Walpode is interpreted as a messenger of violence (in the sense of an authorized power holder, for example a ministerial ), which means that the messenger also had police force . Above all, walpods took on judicial functions.
A well-known name bearer is the founder of the Rhenish Association of Cities from 1254, the Mainz citizen Arnold Walpod.
An early example of being appointed Walpot is Hartwig I of Bavaria from the Aribonen family , he was appointed Walpot for Carantania (Carinthia) by King Otto I around 952.
The wisdom of Oberursel 1401 illustrates the use in the sense of a power of rule.
The Rheingau region can serve as an example , where the existence of the lordly office is historically documented since 1131. In the 17th century , police matters - including overseeing immigration regulations - and the execution of sentences were part of a whale pod's remit.
Like other official titles (example: Truchsessen von Waldburg ), Walpode also became part of noble family names. In a family tree register it is found that especially noble families from the Middle Rhine region in the Rheingau and in the greater Koblenz area took up the designation: Walpode von Andernach, Bassenheim, Braubach etc.
The most famous family today has a slightly different name: the still flourishing Count Waldbott von Bassenheim from Bassenheim near Koblenz (originally Walpot von Waldmannshausen , from around 1300 von Bassenheim, raised to Imperial Count in 1720 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles R. Bowlus: The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955; the end of the age of migration in the latin west. Hants / Burlington 2006, p. 146 (German: autumn 2012)
- ↑ Wetterau. Wisdom of Oberursel . In: Weisthümer / collected by Jacob Grimm. Mithrsg. by Ernst Dronke [u. a.]. Dieterich, Göttingen 1842, Volume 3, p. 488, facsimile.
- ↑ Valentin Ferdinand von Gudenus (ed.): Codex diplomaticus: exhibens anecdota from anno DCCCLXXXI to MCCC Moguntiaca, ius Germanicum et SRI historiam illustrantia . tape 1 . Regia Officina Librar. Academ., Göttingen 1743, pp. 100 ( digital-sammlungen.de ).