Machelm

Machelm (* around 730 ; † 781 ) was in the 8th century a representative of the top management in the area of ​​the Agilolfinger . In the Breves Notitiae, he is given the titles vir clarissimus (the most famous man), comes (count), vir illustris (the respected man) or simply vir nobilis (man of rank). He is a close confidante and probably also a relative of Odilo and his son Tassilo III. viewed. Because of its consent to a donation Swanahilds to the Monastery Mondsee is concluded that Machelm in the period of immaturity Tassilos than Pippin acted inserted administrator or executor of Odilo.

His father was a Hertrich, Machelm was married to an Erlint and the marriage resulted in at least three sons ( vir inluster Mauricho, comes Brunicho († 788) and Hadubraht). His brother's name was W (M) enilo, who like Machelm also owned properties in the Rhine-Neckar region. Because of the nearby properties (e.g. in Schweinersdorf , Haiming and Haselbach ), relatives to Swanahild, Karl Martell's second wife , are suspected. His main property seems to have been between Inn and Traun with the main town of Wels, and he was also wealthy in the Rhine-Neckar area, where he and his relatives donated to the Lorsch monastery . His son Mauricho also donated goods on the Wallersee to the diocese of Salzburg ; this also appears in Lobdengau or 820 to 840 when goods are exchanged with Bishop Baturich around Regensburg. The brother Wenilo appears in a donation in Bachmanning , as well as missus Tassilonis in the deed of foundation of Kremsmünster .

As proof of his power and influence, it is seen that he gave rich gifts to all Bavarian cathedral churches as well as the Mondsee and Niederalteich monasteries . He received a donation from Duke Odilo in the vicinity of castrum Uueles as a heredita , which he later passed on to Freising (776) . From Tassilo III. he received Munderfing , which also went to Freising. Several Mansi and a forest in the cella Antefana in Aurolzmünster went to the monastery Niederalteich. His power of disposal over the free ( liberi ) in his donations to the churches shows that he was legally and socially regarded as a member of the ducal house. He often notarized his donations in the castrum Uueles and he employed a priest named Watta (or Uuatto ) as his own scribe .

In view of the looming conflict with Charlemagne , Tassilo III., His wife Liutberga and his son Theodo sent an embassy in 781 under the leadership of Bishop Alim von Säben and Count Megilo and Machelm to Pope Hadrian I in Rome, to give him the to submit a Baierisch-Frankish affair. Charlemagne only allowed Alim von Säben and Atto , then Abbot von Schlehdorf , to travel on. Machelm died on this mission for Tassilo on the way to Rome.

His sons from Machem's family still appear in Freising documents from the 9th century, then the trace of this family is lost. Another Machelm ( filius Otleipi , also Machelm de Baioaria ) appears at a placitum publicum in Rodhoheskirrihha on the Laber. This imperial aristocrat was entrusted with an embassy to the Bulgarians by King Ludwig the Pious in 824 and is identical to a vassallus episcopi from 814, but is presumably in no relation to the Machelm presented above.

literature

• Wilhelm Störmer : Nobility groups in early and high medieval Bavaria (= studies on the Bavarian constitutional and social history ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7696-9877-7 , pp. 42–49.
• Wilhelm Störmer: Early nobility. Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire from the 8th to the 11th century. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages ). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-7772-7307-4 , pp. 208f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages ). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 , p. 156.
2. ↑ Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 325.
3. ↑ Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 524.