Irmingard of Verdun

Irmingard von Verdun , also Countess Irmingard von Hammerstein, (* around 975, † 1042 ), married to Otto von Hammerstein , Count in the Wetterau and Engersgau from the Rhine-Franconian house of the Konradines . The castle that gave it its name was the Reichsburg Hammerstein on the Middle Rhine opposite Andernach .

Irmingard was the only daughter of Count Gottfried the Elder. Ä. von Verdun and Mathilde Billung, daughter of Hermann Billung , Duke of Saxony , and sister of the Dukes Gottfried II and Gozelo I of Lower Lorraine. In her first marriage she was perhaps married to Count Kuno (Chuonrad † around 1012) in Rangau.

She was the protagonist of the so-called Hammersteiner marriage dispute (1018-1027), in which she was to be separated from her husband at the request of Erkanbald , Archbishop of Mainz , because of too close relatives. Irmingard became famous through her trip to Pope Benedict VIII (Christmas 1023), who died in 1024 during the negotiations. The dispute was finally put down by Emperor Konrad II in 1027 .

Irmingard von Verdun had a son, Otto, Udo († 1034). Her husband Otto died in 1036. Nothing is known about Irmingard's last years. She probably died in late 1042.

literature

• Matthias Koch: Irmgard von Hammerstein. In: Georg Mölich (Ed.): Rheinische Lebensbilder. Vol. 18, 2000, pp. 7-26.
• Werner Trillmich : Emperor Konrad II and his time. Published by Otto Bardong . Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-7713-0409-1 .
• Robert Holtzmann : History of the Saxon Kaiserzei. (900-1024). 6th edition. Callwey, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7667-0478-8 .
• Hans Kreutzer, Robert Düthorn: Ross Valley . Past and present. Marktgemeinde Roßtal, Roßtal 1979, p. 73 ff.
• Ursula Lewald:  Irmgard von Hammerstein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 180 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Irmingard von Hammerstein at heimatverein-rosstal.de
• Matthias Koch: Irmgard von Verdun in the Rheinische Geschichte portal