Otto von Barmstede

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Otto von Barmstede (* 1212 ; † probably 1269/70) was a Holstein nobleman.

Otto von Barmstede came from the von Barmstede family , who lived in the Elbmarschen in the 12th and 13th centuries . He was the son of Heinrich II von Barmstede , who founded the Uetersen Monastery in memory of his father Heinrich I von Barmstede .

The nobleman Otto von Barmstede was married to Gertrud, who was probably a sister or daughter of the bishop of Dorpat Friedrich von Haseldorf . From this marriage came a daughter Alheydis († 1302), who was mentioned on November 12, 1288 as the widow of the knight Heinrich (II) von Heimbruch. His sister Adelheid was married to the Overboden von Stormarn Verestus.

Together with his older brother Heinrich III. of Barmstede he owned except the castles Uetersen ( castle Uetersen (I) , Castle Uetersen (II) ) and Willenscharen lands and goods in Asse Burch, Barmstedt , Lohe Ollerloh Glinde , land , Rellingen , etc. In addition, the brothers had the patronage of the Church of Morin near Königsberg , which Otto von Barmstede transferred to the Ueckermünde monastery . The superior position and the extensive property of the brothers and also their influence on their peers led to conflicts with the Counts of Holstein .

In 1255 Friedrich von Haseldorf became a cleric with no male descendants. Thereupon Otto and Heinrich acquired Burg and Vogtei Haseldorf , which was under the sovereignty of the Archbishop of Bremen , and renounced the nobility on June 7, 1257 - " renunciantes nobilitati et libertati nostrespontanea voluntati ", "to the Haseldorf fiefs in the seven Bremen parishes to be given a fiefdom to the Holstein bank of the Elbe from Archbishop Gerhard II of Bremen , and with the intention of letting Dithmarschen be given as a fief by the same . ”The disputes soon followed. Heinrich died in Hamburg on June 24th, 1257, allegedly from poisoning.

When Archbishop Hildebold was elected in 1258, on whose side Otto von Barmstede fought, the Holstein counts tried to subjugate Otto. They received the assistance of the Hamburgers, who first drove up to Haseldorf with a group of six cogs and then blocked the Schwinge from the Elbe. The dispute was thus extended to the Stader Elbzoll , i.e. the dispute between Archbishop Hildebold and Hamburg. Otto von Barmstede waged the war alone, which he lost but got off lightly. At the time of the peace treaty in 1259, he renounced an enfeoffment with Dithmarschen.

In 1267 he is mentioned again in the conflict with Hamburg for robbery on the Stör . Shortly before his death, on September 27, 1269, he presented the Uetersen monastery with tithes from the villages of “Apen and Bunebüttel”. Then his track is lost. Otto von Barmstede probably died in 1269/70.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Barmstede, Otto von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Otto von Barmstede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 1212
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1269 or 1270