Odolaw

Odolaw was a Pomeranian nobleman in the 12th century, probably a member of the Greifenhaus ruling in the Duchy of Pomerania . It only appears in a document from 1187.

Lore

In a Pomeranian document from the year 1187, with the Dowager Duchess Anastasia with her young son Bogislaw II. The Monastery Grobe confirmed some donations, among the witnesses one is Odolauus filius Kazimari ( "Odolaw, son of Casimir") called. The addition de Livticia was added to the name later . He is in second place in the row of witnesses, after Wartislaw Swantiboricz , a member of a branch line of the Greifenhaus.

Nothing else is known about this Odolaw.

interpretation

This Odolaw was probably still young in 1187, as his father's name is also given in the row of witnesses. He must have died young, as he no longer appears in later documents.

In the older genealogy this Odolaw was listed as the son of the Pomeranian Duke Casimir I (* after 1130; † 1180). This assignment can still be found in the article published by Gottfried von Bülow in 1876 in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie about Casimir I. It is still occasionally represented today.

According to the judgment of the historian Martin Wehrmann, however, this assignment is incorrect. He refers to a statement by the contemporary historian Saxo Grammaticus (* around 1140, † around 1220), according to which Duke Casimir I died childless. An exact assignment is not possible.

The historian Rudolf Benl , takes that Odolaw a son of a called in two other documents from the years 1186/1187 Casimir and thus a grandson of Wartislaw Swantiboricz is. He would then be a member of a branch line, the Swantiboriden , of the ruling Greifenhaus. As an argument in favor of belonging to the Greifenhaus, he argues that despite his youth, Odolaw was listed in second place in the row of witnesses and thus in front of ten other nobles, and that the addition de Livticia , which refers to the land of the Lutizen , which was incorporated by Pomerania inserted by a later, but well-informed hand. In the titles of the Pomeranian dukes of the 12th and early 13th centuries, the lutices were still listed many times, so Duke Bogislaw I called himself Pomeranorum et Liuticiorum Dux in 1182 .

The name Odolaw is possibly a variant of the German first name Adolf .

literature

• Rudolf Benl: Slavic tribal names in Pomeranian documents and the question of belonging to the Pomeranian Empire. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 72 NF, 1986, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 9 f., Footnote 25.
• Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Leon Saunier's bookshop, Stettin 1937, p. 39 f.

Footnotes

1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 106.
2. ↑ Gottfried von Bülow :  Casimir I. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 53 f.