Glismuth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Glismut (* before 906; † April 26, 924 ) was the wife of Konrad the Elder from the house of the Konradines . She had four children with him, including the later King Konrad I of East Franconia .

origin

No sources are available on Glismut's origin; the question is controversial in research. The claim that Glismut was an illegitimate daughter of Emperor Arnulf (and King Conrad I consequently descended from the last Carolingians) was "adequately refuted" by Johann Martin Kremer as early as 1779, but is still rumored. According to an entry in a necrologue at Remiremont Abbey , the name of Glismut's mother is "Amulred". This could thus be a daughter (dux) Ekbert von Sachsen. Jackman (2006) was able to prove the offspring of Glismut on the mother's side, from the sex of the Cobbonnen .

In 1872 Stein had shown that Oda , the wife of Emperor Arnulf , was not a sister of Konrad the Elder, and assumed that her father was Berengar or Berthold , two brothers and uncle of Konrad from the Konradin family. This view is still widely accepted today. The background to the conjectures in the direction of the Konradines are the names propinquus Ludovici and nepos amabilis , which are given to the sons of Konrad the Elder in relation to King Ludwig the child .

Jackman sees these designations, especially with the addition amabilis , as an indication of a much closer relationship than indicated by Stein and Hlawitschka, but not on the paternal, but on the maternal side: He comes to the conclusion that Queen Oda as mother king Ludwigs and Glismut were sisters of King Konrad as mother. From this he concludes in particular that neither Berengar nor Berthold Oda's father and that Oda cannot belong to the Conradin family. One consequence of his assumption is that King Konrad I, as a first cousin, was the closest blood relative of Ludwig, which - after Jackman - played a decisive role in the election of the king in 911.

progeny

Four children are known of Konrad and Glismut:

literature

  • Ernst Dümmler : History of the East Franconian Empire. 1st edition in 2 volumes, Berlin 1862–1865; Vol. 2, p. 572 f., Note 5
  • Friedrich Stein: History of the King Konrad I of Franconia and his house. Beck, Nördlingen 1872.
  • Eduard Hlawitschka : The ancestors of the high medieval German kings, emperors and their wives. Vol. 1: 911–1137 (= Monumenta Germaniae historica. Vol. 25,1). Hahn, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-7752-1132-1 .
  • Donald C. Jackman : The pedigree of the earliest German kings. In: Herold Yearbook. New series, Volume 15, 2010, pp. 47-67.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ so Ernst Dümmler : History of the East Franconian Empire . 1st edition in 2 volumes, Berlin 1862–1865; Vol. 2, p. 572 f., Note 5
  2. ↑ so also: Gerhard Jaeckel: The German Emperors. 1989, p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Glismuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glismouda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Franconian nobles, mother of Konrad I. (East Franconia)
DATE OF BIRTH before 906
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 924