Hessi (Ostfale)

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Hessi (proven from 775; † 804 in Fulda ) was an old Saxon, East Westphalian tribal leader who submitted to Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars in 775 .

Life

Graf Hessi monument in front of the Wendhusen monastery with the Protestant St. Andreas Church in the background

Hessi came from an old Saxon noble family. It is unclear whether the town of Hessen near Osterwieck is connected to Hessi. So far nothing is known about Hessi's early life.

In his long-standing Saxon Wars , in 775 Charlemagne also undertook a campaign in the eastern part of the Old Saxon region (Ostfalen). Presumably he met Hessi, one of the leaders of the "Eastern People", at the crossing of the Oker near Ohrum . Hessi and his men submitted to Charlemagne and were Christianized .

In 782, Hessi received a count's office from Charlemagne . Later he entered the Benedictine monastery in Fulda as a monk . He gave the monastery two East Westphalian goods, which were probably near Quedlinburg , with a total of 80 unfree people.

Hessi was married to a Franconian. Since his son died before him, he left his goods to his daughters. His eldest daughter Gisela or Gisla founded the canonical monastery Wendhusen in Thale am Harz after the death of her husband Unwan , which is reported in the surviving biography of the saints Liutbirg (" Vita Liutbirgae ").

literature

  • Birgid Behrens: Count Hessi and the last heir to the Merovingian throne. The family of Count Hessi in the power structure of the European nobility from the 7th to the 10th century . Thale 2014.
  • Dieter Lent : Hessi. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 346f.
  • Karl-Heinz Börner : Count Hessi . In: Contributions to the history of Hessen am Fallstein, issue 8/2016, pp. 20–24

Individual evidence

  1. See z. B. the website of Hessen: Jörg von Kloeden: History of Hessen and Hesse Castle, 2007 ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2015 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeinde-hessen.de
  2. Cf. Claudia Märtl : The East Saxon Early Period and the Ottonians . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schild: The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2000, p. 138; Dieter Lent: Hessi . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 346
  3. Cf. Dieter Lent: Hessi . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 346
  4. Cf. Dieter Lent: Hessi . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 346