Jaczo von Salzwedel

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Jaczo I. von Salzwedel († before June 1249 ) was a vassal of the Pomeranian dukes and founder of the county of Gützkow .

Life

Jaczo came from the Altmark family of Bailiffs von Salzwedel , who were among the vassals of Albrecht the Bear as early as 1145 and were agnates of the Counts of Dannenberg . His father Friedrich II von Salzwedel also served the Ascanians as a nobleman . Jaczo's mother was probably a daughter of the Slavic prince Jaczo von Copnic , from which his own and later master name of the Count von Gützkow, Jaczo, is borrowed.

After the death of his brother Friedrich III. von Salzwedel he took over the office of his father for his underage son. From 1212 Jaczo was named as a witness in several documents. He was present in 1212 when Emperor Otto IV contractually promised his liege, the Margrave Albrecht II of Brandenburg, support against the Danes.

He should have moved to Pomerania by May 18, 1233 at the latest , because on this date he first appeared as a witness in a ducal document relating to the Grobe monastery . He was mentioned in documents in October 1233 together with his brother Konrad II and in April 1235 in Salzwedel. The last time he was referred to in October 1235 in a Brandenburg document as " advocatus ". His brother was named Konrad III in 1233. Bishop of Cammin .

According to widespread literature, he is said to have married Dobroslawa in 1234 , a presumed daughter of the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw II and allegedly widow of the Gützkow castellan Wartislaw mentioned in 1219 . The latter was often recognized in the research history in Wartislaw , but this is not documented as certain. Neither the relationship between Dobroslawa and Wartislaw nor Jaczo can be documented. He was also given Dobroslawa von Schlawe or her daughter as his wife, which, however, also fails to provide documentary evidence. This calls into question Jaczo's family ties to the former castellans from Gützkow or the side lines of the Greifenhaus . Unaffected by this, various dukes of Pomerania later referred to Jaczo's descendants several times in documents as "cognatus". The actual wife Jaczos was last recorded in June 1249 as a co-sealer of her sons without naming her.

The Pomeranian Dukes had been pursuing an immigration policy since 1230, as a result of which German settlers were brought into the sparsely populated areas between Ryck and Peene , not least because of the war expeditions that took place in the Peene area in the 12th century . As vassals of the Pomeranian dukes, Jaczo and his sons supported the settlement. The founding of the Franciscan monastery in Greifswald, attributed to Jaczo and Dobroslawa by Robert Klempin in 1242, is now considered unreliable in view of the sources. Instead, his grandson Jaczo II and his wife Cecislawa von Putbus are seen as the founder of the monastery and 1262 as the year of the foundation. The monastery served as a burial place for the family of the Gützkow bailiffs and counts.

The title Graf von Gützkow is only documented from 1249. His son Konrad was the first Count von Gützkow mentioned by name in 1270.

progeny

Two sons are known from the marriage of Jaczos I:

  1. Johann I († after 1257)
  2. Conrad I († after December 21, 1284), first count named by name

In the literature of the 19th century Jaczo II was occasionally also seen as a son, but more recent research assigns this to his grandchildren.

Furthermore, Jaczo I is assigned a daughter Catharina , who is said to have been the third wife of the Swedish King Woldemar (* 1243; † 1302). Documentary evidence of their existence is not yet known.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ probably before November 1237; see. Hofmeister o. Schmidt (lit.)
  2. ↑ a b c d Roderich Schmidt :  Gützkow, Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 290 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ u. a. by Johann Ludwig Quandt
  4. ↑ a b Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume III, Part I, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 1984, Plate 7A
  5. ^ Iw S. Vetter
  6. ↑ Pomeranian Document Book , No. 491
  7. ↑ Karsten Igel: On the history of the Greifswald Franciscan monastery. On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the founding of the monastery on June 29, 1262. In: Greifswald contributions to city history, preservation of monuments, city renovation. 6th year, Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Stadtbauamt, Greifswald 2012, pp. 4–15.
  8. ^ Prümers: Pomeranian document book. 1877, p. 535.
  9. ^ Albert Georg Schwartz : Diplomatic history of the Pomeranian-Rügischen cities of Swedish sovereignty: together with the attached history of the county of Gützkow. Hieronymus Johann Struck, Greifswald 1755, appendix after p. 840.
  10. ^ Sven August Daniel Tunberg: Jaczo von Salzwedel . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 31 : Ural vertex . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1921, Sp. 384 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Salzwedel, Jaczo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzwedel, Jaczo I. von; Gützkow, Jaczo I. von; Soltwedel, Jakzo from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. von Gützkow
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH before June 1249