Hermann von Salm

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Depiction of King Hermann von Salm at the town hall of Eisleben

Hermann von Lützelburg, Count von Salm, (* around 1035 ; † September 28, 1088 at the Reichsburg Cochem ), was the progenitor of the Salm family .

Life

Hermann von Lützelburg was a son of Count Giselbert von Luxemburg and his wife. In the period from 1064 to 1088 he resided as Count Palatine at Cochem Castle.

Hermann von Salm was elected on August 6, 1081, while Henry IV was in Italy , by the Saxons and Swabians gathered in Ochsenfurt as the successor to Rudolf von Rheinfelden , who fell in October, as the anti-king of Henry IV. Archbishop Siegfried I. of Mainz crowned him on December 26 in Goslar for King .

Hermann von Salm, however, limited himself to his sphere of influence Saxony and was therefore unable to assert himself against Heinrich IV. Even his relatives, the influential and widespread Luxembourgers in the empire , remained loyal to the emperor without exception . Hermann's plan to set out for Italy with an army assembled on the Danube was thwarted by the death of his main supporter Otto von Northeim . When Heinrich entered Saxony with his army in 1085, Hermann fled to the Danes , but returned. With the support of the Duke of Bavaria , Welf V. , he defeated the Emperor at Bleichfeld am Main in 1086 and won Würzburg . But his influence remained so small that he never posed a threat to Heinrich.

Tired of his role as the shadow king, who was only a plaything in the hands of ambitious greats, he retired to his hereditary lands in 1088 and lost his life that same year in the battle for Cochem . He was buried in Metz . The Brothers Grimm narrated that Hermann von Salm was ridiculed by his opponents as "Garlic King" or "King Garlic". At that time, garlic grew in the vicinity of his Eisleben residence . Chroniclers attribute the tradition of garlic Wednesday to this mockery .

With his wife Sophia von Formbach he had the following children:

swell

  • Sources on the history of Emperor Heinrich IV . Latin and German. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2006 (Selected Sources on German History of the Middle Ages Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Edition; 12). ISBN 3-534-19876-X . Contains u. a .: Bruno von Merseburg: Brunonis Saxonicum bellum. Brunos Sachsenkrieg (translated by Franz-Josef Schmale, pp. 191–405) and Carmen de bello saxonico. The song from the Saxon War (translated by Franz-Josef Schmale , pp. 142–189).

literature

Regesten

  • Böhmer, JF, Regesta Imperii III. Salian house 1024-1125. Part 2: 1056-1125. 3rd department: The regests of the empire under Heinrich IV. 1056 (1050) - 1106. 5th edition: The regests of Rudolf von Rheinfelden, Hermann von Salm and Konrad (III.) Directories, registers, addenda and corrigenda, edited by Gerhard Lubich , with the assistance of Dirk Jäckel / Matthias Weber, and Cathrin Junker / Lisa Klocke / Markus Keller, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51149-4 , ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hermann von Salm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brothers Grimm (ed.): German legends . Second part, Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1818, p. 185 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Heidi Driesner: disreputable from Halle . Article dated June 7, 2014 in the ntv.de portal , accessed on January 23, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Rudolf of Rheinfelden Opposite king in the Roman-German Empire
1081-1088 		-
personal data
SURNAME Hermann von Salm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermann of Luxemburg, Count of Salm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Noble and anti-king
DATE OF BIRTH around 1035
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1088
Place of death Cochem