Hermann III. (Werl)

Hermann III. († after 1055) was a Count of Werl who held count rights in Friesland .

Life

He was the son of Rudolf von Werl , a brother of Hermann II , and an unknown mother. A brother or cousin of Hermann was probably Bishop Rotho von Paderborn . Little is known about his life. He had count rights in the Frisian Emsgau . Coins minted by him in Emden are known. There he probably owned a castle that had a St. Walburgis chapel. The castle may already have existed under his father. Albert K. Hömberg had put Hermann in touch with a Vogt of the Werden monastery . In the meantime it seems to be clear that the Vogt belonged to the family of Count von Berg . The nevertheless important and noble rank of Hermann becomes clear through his marriage with Richenza . According to recent research, this probably comes from the Rhenish house of the Ezzone . She was the daughter of Duke Otto of Swabia. The daughter Oda emerged from Hermann's marriage with Richenza . She married Count Udo von Stade around 1065 . After Hermann's death, Richenza married Otto von Northeim .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There is also the thesis of a descent from the Billungers .

literature

• Paul Leidinger : The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980–1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 , pp. 119–170, here pp. 146f.