Marcrad I.

Marcrad I († after 1170) from the family of the Ammonids was a Holstein great who, as Overbode, exercised military leadership tasks in the Saxon-Slavic contact zone and represented the Holstein greats towards the Saxon Duke.

Marcrad I is documented from 1127 to 1170 and was probably the son of Ammon. His own son Marcrad II followed him as overbode. Marcrad I. lived first in Faldera and after the incorporation of the Slavic Wagrien into the county of Holstein in the originally Slavic Bornhöved . Research sees him as the leader of the “Holstein people's nobility”, who differed from the South Elbe aristocracy through the low social gradient to the free farmers. As overbode he exercised the office of supreme general and judge of the Holsten. For this he was supposedly appointed in a meeting of the free farmers. In 1127, under the leadership of Marcrad I, the Holsten asked Archbishop Adalbero of Bremen in Meldorf for spiritual assistance from a priest, whereupon Adalbero sent the missionary vicelin to them. Against the will of Count Heinrich von Bathide , who was deployed in Holstein , the Holsten, under Marcrad's leadership, conquered the Vagrian castle of Plune in summer 1138 . After Marcrad had initially led the resistance of the Holsten against the alien Count Adolf II of Schauenburg , he led the contingent of the Holsten in the battle of Verchen under his command in 1164 .

swell

• Helmold von Bosau : Chronica Slavorum (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. Vol. 7 = Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in Usum Scholarum separatim editi. Vol. 26). Published by the Reich Institute for Older German History. 3rd edition, edited by Bernhard Schmeidler . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1937 (retransmitted and explained by Heinz Stoob . (= Selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe. Vol. 19, ISSN  0067-0650 ). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1963 (7. Edition (unchanged from the 6th, compared to the 5th, expanded by a supplement in 2002). With a supplement by Volker Scior. Ibid. 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21974-2 )).

literature

• Walther Lammers : The High Middle Ages up to the Battle of Bornhöved (= history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 4, Part 1). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-02404-X , pp. 4-14.

Remarks

1. ↑ Günther Bock: The Stormarner Overboden and the beginning of the medieval eastern settlement . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 127 (2002), pp. 35–74, here p. 35.