Heinrich von Kalden

Heinrich von Kalden (* before 1175, † after 1214) was the imperial marshal .

Heinrich von Kalden dressed under Emperor Heinrich VI. from 1191 the office of Reichshofmarschall. His father was probably the marshal of his father Friedrich I Barbarossa , Heinrich Testa . But it could also be the same person. More recent research, however, tends towards the father and son theory. The knights and imperial ministerial heads ( Latin Testa ) or Kalendin are considered the ancestors of the later Counts of Pappenheim , hereditary marshals of the Holy Roman Empire.

Allegedly Heinrich von Kalden was the founder of Kaltenburg Castle . He was often a fighter in single combat to settle disputes . So at the end of 1191 he was supposed to enter into a duel with the Vogt of the city of Strasbourg, but he did not appear. He celebrated Christmas 1195 in the Kaiser's entourage in the Palatinate of Hagenau . In the following year he accompanied the emperor on his travels in the Rhine area. In May and June 1197 he and Markward von Annweiler put down a revolt of Sicilian barons. In the same year he was entrusted with the military direction of Emperor Heinrich's crusade . In Palestine, however, the princes were not ready to place themselves under his command, so Heinrich von Brabant took his place. Shortly before his death, Emperor Heinrich rewarded him for his services. Heinrich remained in the service of the Hohenstaufen, but also supported the Guelph Emperor Otto IV until 1213. In March 1209 he killed the murderer of Philip of Swabia , Otto von Wittelsbach , in battle.

literature

Eduard Winkelmann : Heinrich von Kalden . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 20 f.
Peter Csendes : Heinrich VI. , Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 1993. ISBN 3-89678-023-9
Jan Keupp : Service and Merit. The Ministerials Friedrich Barbarossas and Heinrich VI. (Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages 48), Stuttgart 2002, pp. 177–214. ISBN 3-7772-0229-0
Pfisterer, Kurt, Heinrich von Kalden. Reichsmarschall during the Staufer time (sources and studies on the history and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages), Berlin 1938.
Klohss, Karl, Investigations on Heinrich von Kalden, Staufer Marshal, and the oldest Pappenheimers, Diss. Berlin 1901.

Individual evidence

^ Gislebertus Montensis, Chronicon Hanoniense, ed. by Wilhelm Arndt, in: MGH SS 21, Hannover 1869, pp. 481-601, p. 558./Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, ed. and over. by Laura Napran, Woodbridge 2005, p. 117 .: Chronicon Hanoniense .

personal data
SURNAME	Heinrich von Kalden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Imperial Marshal of Emperor Heinrich VI.
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1175
DATE OF DEATH	after 1214

[1] Gislebertus Montensis, Chronicon Hanoniense, ed. by Wilhelm Arndt, in: MGH SS 21, Hannover 1869, pp. 481-601, p. 558./Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, ed. and over. by Laura Napran, Woodbridge 2005, p. 117 .: Chronicon Hanoniense .