Hesso II of Backnang

Hesso II , also Hesso the Younger (* before 1067, † probably after 1111), was the son and successor of Hesso I, Lord von Backnang from the Hesson dynasty .

Since the numbering of the family members is not clear, the exact chronological classification is uncertain. In the following it should be assumed that his father Hesso I was the Hesso who ruled around the middle of the 11th century.

Hesso II appeared for the first time in 1067 at the side of his father when attesting a deed of gift in Augsburg . According to this , a Hesso von Sülchen appears in 1075 when the Hirsau monastery was restored by Adalbert II , Count von Calw , who is probably identical with Hesso II. Since only one Hesso appears this time, it can be assumed that the father had died in the meantime.

Hesso II was married to an unidentifiable Judith , the couple had several children: Judith (von Backnang-Sulichgau) , another Hesso (III.) , Pilgerinus, and Siegehard (von Wolfsölden), although the origin of the latter is particularly disputed is because it is never mentioned together with the rest of the siblings. Hesso II married his children with the powerful families of the region, so Siegehard married a Count's daughter from Calw in the 1080s and Judith married Margrave Hermann II of Baden around 1111 . In the latter marriage, the city of Backnang itself fell to Baden as a dowry and the Hessons relocated their rule to Wolfsölden Castle .

Hessos II. His successor was presumably his historically barely comprehensible son Hesso III.

literature

• Florian Lamke: The early margraves of Baden, the Hessonen and the Zähringer In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 154 (2006)
• Ottilie Kilian: Sülchgau - Wolfsölden - Schauenburg: The power-political striving of a medieval noble family (1000-1300) In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter New Volume 6 (1999)