Hermann I of Winzenburg

Family table: Counts of Reinhausen / Winzenburg

Hermann I. von Winzenburg , or Windberg , (* around 1083 at Windberg Castle; † 1137 or 1138 ) was Count of Formbach and Radelberg, Count of Winzenburg (1109–1130), Count of Reinhausen (1122–1138) and high bailiff of the monastery Corvey , Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen .

Life

Hermann I. von Winzenburg was a son of Count Hermann or Count Meginhard V. von Formbach and Windberg and Mathilde von Reinhausen (daughter of Count Elli II. Von Reinhausen.)

Already in his early youth he was presumably given to his maternal uncle, Bishop Udo von Hildesheim , for upbringing, under whose direction he attended the cathedral school. When he was about sixteen years old, he accompanied his uncle to Mainz to be introduced to the Kaiser, who held a court day there on November 9, 1099. Hermann named himself from 1109 after his castle Winzenburg southeast of Alfeld , which he carried as an episcopal fief. Hermann, who was one of King Henry V's advisers , was given a special position of power among the Saxon dynasts .

In 1109 he was on behalf of Henry V in Rome as a member of a princely embassy. In 1111/1112 he appeared as the first Landgrave of Thuringia (a separation from the Duchy of Saxony ). He was rather distant about his obligations to Corvey Abbey. He remained inactive during the attacks by the sons of Count Widekind I. von Schwalenberg . In the investiture controversy he switched to the papal side and therefore had to move to Austria or his native home, on the upper Inn, (whereby he made a large donation to the Göttweig monastery , not more as Vogt?). In 1122, after the death of the Counts of Reinhausen in the male line, with the death of his uncle Hermann III von Reinhausen in 1122 in Formbach, where his father, Count Hermann von Windberg and Formbach, also died in the same year, their inheritance. He was Leinegaugraf and Vogt over the Reinhausen monastery, which his ancestors on his mother's side had founded.

In 1130 he got with his vassal Burchard I of Loccum , a confidante of the later Emperor Lothar III. , in dispute over the construction of his castle and had him murdered in a churchyard. Hermann I was condemned on the Prince's Day in Quedlinburg on August 18, 1130 and all of his dignities and fiefs were withdrawn from him:

• The Landgraviate of Thuringia came to Ludwig I.
• The margraviate of Meissen received Konrad von Wettin in its entirety.
• The Winzenburg itself and the goods belonging to it fell back to the Diocese of Hildesheim, whose fief they were.

The outlawed Hermann I and his sons Hermann II and Heinrich offered stubborn resistance to the Emperor Lothar and the princes and defended themselves for a long time in Winzenburg against an army sent against him. He only surrendered on the last day of 1130. King Lothar initially had him arrested in Blankenburg am Harz. As a result, he was exiled in the Rhineland for years. In 1134 he was released and given defense duties in Holstein. He became the commander of the Segeberg Fortress and died there in 1137/38. This was written down between 1152/53 and 1156 by the first abbot of Reinhausen Monastery , Reinhard, in a document about the foundation of the monastery and about the family of the founders. Abbot Reinhard died on May 7, 1156 in Reinhausen and was buried in the monastery church .

family

Hermann von Winzenburg was probably married twice:

• ⚭ 1.) an Eversteiner
  • Sophie (around 1105– March 25, 1160) ⚭ possibly Albrecht I the Bear , Margrave of Brandenburg
  • Konrad
• ⚭ 2.) either Hedwig von Assel-Woltingerode, daughter of the count,
  or Hedwig von Krain -Istrien, niece of Ulrich II. Von Weimar-Orlamünde († 1112),
  • Beatrix († April 2, 1160), Abbess of Neuenheerse in 1123 and of Quedlinburg in 1138
  • Hermann II of Winzenburg (around 1110–29/30 January 1152)
  • Mathilde (Jutta) († May 22, 1155) ⚭ 1128 Lothar Udo IV. Margrave of Nordmark (from the County of Stade )
  • Heinrich Graf von Assel / Asselburg (around 1110 / 15–1146)

siblings

• Ulrich V. von Windberg (~ 1050–1097), Count of Windberg and Ratelnberg, Vogt of Göttweig. 1072 ⚭ Mathilde von Vohburg-Cham (~ 1050 – after 1125)
• Sophie von Formbach (* ~ 1053).
• Konrad I. Count of Formbach (~ 1055-1084).
• Hermann I. von Formbach (* ~ 1060).

literature

• G. Lämmerhirt:  Winzenburg, from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 507-511.

Web links

• South Saxon noble families. An overview from the early Middle Ages to the 13th century. on cma.gbv.de (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} G. Lämmerhirt:  Winzenburg, von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 507-511.
2. ↑ 1130 (November – December), Winzenburg on regesta-imperii.de, accessed on February 14, 2014.
3. ↑ Source: Hanover State Archives, Reinhausen Monastery, Certificate No. 2.
4. ↑ South Saxon noble families. An overview from the early Middle Ages to the 13th century. at cma.gbv.de, accessed on February 14, 2014. (PDF, pp. 10-11.)
5. ↑ Meginhard V. (Graf v.Vils u. Formbach) von Formbach ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on goldlauter.com, accessed February 14, 2014.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Wiprecht II.	Margrave of Meissen 1124–1129	Konrad I.