Heinrich von Brakel

Heinrich von Brakel (* before 1200, † after 1248) was a clergyman in Paderborn , who lived as an episcopal and Danish vassal in the Baltic States after his excommunication .

Life

In Paderborn

Heinrich belonged to the originally noble family of the noble lords von Gehrden or the later lords von Brakel , who later descended to the ministerial class and served the Corvey , the bishops of Paderborn or the monastery Heerse . His family had the town of Brakel as a fief and numerous lower noble families as aftervasallen . Heinrich's parents were Werner III. von Brack , mentioned in a document in the years 1146 to 1203 and probably his second wife, Fredegundis , who probably belonged to the family of the Counts of Schwarzfeld - Lutterberg . One of his younger brothers was the Bishop of Hildesheim , Johann I von Brakel († 1260).

From the year 1209 Heinrich's existence is documented as canon of Paderborn , a position in which he was mentioned until November 6, 1213. The Livonia Crusade of 1211, on which the bishops Bernhard III. von Paderborn and Albert von Riga as well as Bernhard von der Lippe , who later became the Bishop of Semgallia, took part. Until June 27, 1223 Heinrich was named provost at the Busdorf monastery in Paderborn. Here he appeared in the winter of 1220/21 as a documentary witness with Albert von Riga in the confirmation of the establishment of a pilgrim hospital in Paderborn. After the death of Bernhard III. of Paderborn he stood for bishopric and was elected on June 27, 1223 controversial. Bishop Siegfried II of Mainz confirmed his election and King Heinrich VII provided him with the regalia . The curia’s preferred candidate and later Bishop of Paderborn, Thomas Olivier, challenged the election. Several commissions dealt with the matter and finally ended after some back and forth around the turn of the year 1224/25 with the impeachment of Heinrich and his excommunication as well as that of his followers. On April 7, 1225, Pope Honorius III confirmed . subsequently the impeachment and excommunication of Heinrich and the appointment of Thomas Olivier as Bishop of Paderborn.

Heinrich von Brackel was no longer mentioned in Westphalian documents.

In the Baltic States

To overcome his excommunication and to relieve his followers, Heinrich went to Livonia as a crusader . Already on April 22nd, 1225 he appeared as a documentary witness for Albert von Riga, whom he already knew from his Paderborn time. In January 1227 there was an army campaign against Ösel , in which Heinrich was very likely involved. Because after this campaign, Heinrich von Brackel also appeared for the first time as a tenant of Bishop Gottfried von Ösel in addition to the Uexküll . It can also be assumed that he was enfeoffed with Udenküll in the 20s , which remained with his family until the beginning of the 15th century . As a vassal of Ösels, Heinrich fathered again on July 26, 1229 and in 1241. In 1238, Heinrich appeared as a Danish vassal in Wierland . At that time he was the master of the villages of Kantküll, which was still with his family in the 16th century, and Raudlep, as well as the Katkotaga farm, which were all in the parish of St. Jakobi . In 1248 he was last mentioned in a document as Heinricus de Bracle . On this occasion he was a vassal and documentary witness of the Bishop of Dorpat .

Heinrich von Brackel thus became the founder of the Baltic noble family von Brackel . Siegfried von Brackel , captain and governor of the Danish king in Reval in 1271 , was his presumed son.

literature

• Hans Jürgen Brandt, Karl Hengst : The Bishops and Archbishops of Paderborn , Publications on the History of the Central German Church Province, Volume 1, Paderborn 1984, p. 117
• Hermann Hoogeweg : The Paderborn bishop's election from 1223 , in: Westphalian magazine for patriotic history and antiquity. Volume 46, Münster 1888, pp. 92-119
• Peter v. Brackel: The gender of Brackel. An investigation into the origin and history of the Baltic family v. Brackel with family tables, pedigree, kinship tables, family statistics as well as special excursions and representations of contemporary history. Volume 1, Bad Honnef 2004, pp. 151-206
• Peter v. Brackel: The gender of Brackel. Family tables about the lines in Westphalia and the Baltic States with 3 additional excursions. Special issue of the Baltic genealogical tables. Volume 23, Hamburg 1999, pp. 18, 75-104
• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2012, Volume 2, pp. 53, 70

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liv-, Est- and Kurländisches Urkundenbuch. Department 1, Volume 1, No. 73