Judith von Backnang

Judith "von Backnang" (* around 1080; † around 1123 in Backnang ) was the wife of the Baden margrave Hermann II. She was the daughter of Hessos II and belonged to the Hesson dynasty . As a dowry , she brought the important city of Backnang into the marriage, which was concluded around 1111.

Due to the fact that all early Baden margraves had the same name and the predominant female name at that time was "Judith" and at the same time the corresponding sources can be interpreted ambiguously, there were extensive discussions about Judith's descent and the origin of the Backnang inheritance. Earlier, Judith von Backnang was equated with the wife of the same name Hermann I and a descent from the Counts of Calw was assumed. The wife of Hermann II was then Judith von Dillingen or Judith von Hohenberg . Occasionally it was also suspected that Hermann II was married to two women named "Judith". According to current research, however, only the marriage with the Hessonian heiress von Backnang can be considered secure.

Backnang had previously been owned by the Hessonen from Sülchgau for about a century before it fell to Baden through their marriage. The place quickly became an important center of the margravate. Margrave Hermann II and his wife Judith founded the Augustinian Canons' Monastery with the collegiate church of St. Pankratius in the village in 1116 as a new family burial place , in which they were both buried - as were 5 generations after them.

Their marriage resulted in at least one son, Hermann (III.) , Who succeeded his father as margrave, and a daughter (Judith?) , Who presumably married Ulrich I of Carinthia .

literature

• Hansmartin Schwarzmaier u. a., History of Baden in Pictures. 1100-1918. Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1993. ISBN 3-17-012088-3 (still with the older assignment of Judith (p. 24))
• Ottilie Kilian: Sülchgau - Wolfsölden - Schauenburg. The power-political striving of a noble family (1000-1300). Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, New Series 6 (1999) pp. 115–188.
• Florian Lamke: The early margraves of Baden, the Hessonen and the Zähringer. Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 154 (2006) ( ISSN  0044-2607 ) pp. 21–42.

Web links

• Burial place of the margraves in the collegiate church of Backnang
• Margraves of Baden on Landeskunde online