Immedinger

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The Immedinger were a Saxon noble family at the time of the Liudolfinger , whose alleged ancestors - albeit not in the male line - included the Saxon Duke Widukind .

Intention of naming

The historian Gerd Althoff considers it possible that the distinction between the Immedinger and the Widukinds is “genealogical fiction” and that Saint Mathilde is to be counted among the direct descendants of Widukind. According to Althoff, the intention behind the turning away from the progenitor Widukind to that ominous top ancestor Immed could have been the following: Archbishop Unwan from the Immedinger family had an interest in the missionary and first bishop of Bremen Willehad and thus precise knowledge of his vita. This was persecuted by Widukind, whereupon some of Willehad's followers died the martyrdom - including a certain Emmigus . The persecution of Christians Widukind was a flaw of the ancestor, especially since Unwan belonged to the clergy. The fictional Ansippung at those martyrs Emmigus was due to the Leitname possible ns Immad / Emmad in sex Unwans - and according to medieval understanding almost mandatory.

The known members of the family

The Immedinger (Widukinde) after Böttger, 1865

  1. Widukind (mentioned 777, 789), also Witekind , Duke of Westphalia (Saxony) ∞ Geva (probably Geva Eysteinsdotter born 755 in Jutland † 807)
    1. Gisela, also Hasala ∞ Berno, son of Bruno I, Duke of the Angrivarians 775
    2. Wigbert († after December 25, 834), Duke of Engern ∞ Odrade
      1. Walbert († 876, mentioned 834, 874) ∞ Altburge († 880)
        1. Reginbern († before October 17, 872), Count 856 ∞ Mathilde († after 911), later abbess of Herford Monastery
          1. Thiadrich († after 929, mentioned 900, 909), Count in Westphalia ∞ Reinhilde of Denmark († May 11 after 929)
            1. Mathilde the Holy (* probably 896; † March 14, 968) ∞ Heinrich I (* 876; † July 2, 936), Duke of Saxony 912, King of East Franconia from April 14, 919 to 936
            2. Bia († May 25 before 954) ∞ Wichmann I. († April 23, 944), also Wigmann , called the Elder (Billunger)
            3. Frederuna († February 10, 917) ∞ April 907 Charles III. the simple-minded of France (Carolingian)
          2. Widukind († 909)
          3. Immed (III.)? († October 12, 953) see below
        2. Wigbert von Verden († September 8, 908), Bishop of Verden from 874 to 908

Die Immedinger according to Ohainski, Schubert & Streich, 2004

The descendants of Abbess Mathilde

  1. Mathilde, Abbess of Herford Monastery
    1. Thiadrich ∞ Reinhilde (Reginlind)
      1. Mathilde the Holy (* 896; † March 14, 968 in Quedlinburg ) ∞ in Wallhausen 909, King Heinrich I († July 9, 936 in Memleben), King of Eastern Franconia 919
      2. Widukind
      3. Immed
      4. Reginbern
      5. Friderun († January 18, 971) ∞ Wichmann II. † April 23, 944, son of Billung
      6. Bia † ​​May 25th after October 21st 937 ∞ N
        1. Friedrich † after October 21, 937
      7. Amalrada ∞ Eberhard († 964), from the house of the Ezzone , count in the Betuwe and in Salland from 944/60; † September 3 before 964

The descendants of Count Immed III.

  1. Immed III. (fallen 954)
    1. Waldered († around 984) ∞ Bertha († around 984), daughter of Burchard III. († 973), Duke of Swabia since 954
      1. Thiedrich , also Dietrich († March 6, 995), Count Palatine in Saxony since 982 ∞ Fritheruna (around 974)
        1. Siegbert (995 / around 1007; † 1017), Count in Ostfalen & Hessen
        2. Dietrich, monk to Corvey
        3. Thiedburga
      2. Siegbert (984 Sicco ; † October 14, 995), Count in Liesgau since 990
        1. Siegbert (around 983), monk of Corvey
        2. NN daughter ∞ Lothar-Udo (killed near Stade on June 23, 994), Count of Stade
        3. Unwan († January 17 or 26, 1029), Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 1013 to 1029
      3. Gisela (around 984)
    2. Immed IV. († January 27, 983), count in the monastery of Utrecht ∞ Adela von Hamaland († August 6, 1020/28), daughter of Wichmann , count in the monastery of Utrecht ∞ II. Before 996, Balderich von Drenthe, count in the Drenthe († June 5, 1021 at Hengebach Castle)
      1. Meinwerk († June 5 or 6, 1036), also Meinwart , Canon of Halberstadt, royal court chaplain & cantor of St. Marien in Aachen from 1001 to 1009, Bishop of Paderborn from 1009 to 1036
      2. Dietrich († April 17, 1014), count in the bishopric of Liège
      3. Athela († after 1027), Canon of Elten
      4. Glismod († February 5 before 1041) ∞ Adalbert the Victorious († May 26, 1055), Margrave of the Ostmark (Babenberger), II. ∞ Otakar / Otger / Oci / Ozzi, 993 Graf im Kroatengau (in Carinthia), III. ∞ Count Reding / Reting
      5. Emma von Lesum († December 3, 1038) ∞ Liudger († 1001), son of Hermann Billung, Duke of Saxony

Without assignment

Wiltrud (or Wiltraut) * around 915, wife of Duke Burchard III. and probably the mother of Dietrich I , the ancestor of the Wettins .

literature

  • Uwe Ohainski, Ernst Schubert, Gerhard Streich: family tree of the Guelphs, edited from the original sources by Heinrich Böttger (†), Royal Library Secretair. Published by F. Klindworth, 1865. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6019-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical and other fictions in medieval historiography. In: Forgeries in the Middle Ages, MGH writings . 33, I, 1988, p. 428ff.
  2. ↑ Gerd Althoff: Staged rule. Historiography and Political Action in the Middle Ages. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, p. 37ff.
  3. ↑ P. Piper (ed.): Libri confraternitatum Sancti Galli, Augiensis, Fabariensis. Weidmann, Berlin 1884, p. 84.
  4. ^ Charles Cawley: Medieval Lands. [fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SAXONY.htm#Theoderichdied917MReginlind]