Hermann I. (Ravensberg)
Hermann I of Ravensberg (* around 1075 / 1080 ; † around 1144 ) was Count of Ravensberg .
He was the only son of Count Hermann I von Kalvelage and Ethelinde von Northeim , daughter of Count Otto von Northeim . Hermann I von Kalvelage, in turn, was a descendant of Hermann von Eenham from the family of the Counts of Verdun .
The Counts of Kalvelage, first attested in 1082 at Lohne in Oldenburg, settled in Ravensberg around 1100, which they hold as a fiefdom of the Saxon dukes, from 1140 they also call themselves Ravensberg. They acquire goods in Emsland that they may have inherited from the Counts of Zütphen, as well as goods around Bielefeld, Herford and Halle.
He was Count of Calvelage and Count in the Diocese of Osnabrück , which was the basis of the Ravensberger Grafschaft.
He was also a count in the Osnabrücker Nordland and Westmünsterland and acquired the Bielefeld area with Halle, Werther, Borgholzhausen, Versmold, Steinhagen and Jöllenbeck as a Paderborn fief (= the later county of Ravensberg).
He was a supporter of Lothar of Supplinburg .
He quarreled with Schwalenberg , Lippe , Werl-Arnsberg and Tecklenburg, as well as with the bishops of Osnabrück and Munster and the Herford monastery because of completely intricate property and legal relationships, which determined the history of his house.
Marriage and children
He married Judith von Zütphen (daughter of Count Otto II von Zutphen )
- Otto I. († around 1170)
- Heinrich, first documented mention 1158 to 1175, Count von Ravensberg (1160)
- Hedwig, heiress to Dale (1166); ∞ (around 1140) Gerhard I of Hainaut, Count von Dale, († 1166)
literature
- Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , New Series, Volume 17, Plate 129, Publisher: Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 978-3-465-02983-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Ravensberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1080 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1144 |