Ratiborids

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The Ratiboriden were a branch line of the Greifenhaus ruling in Pomerania . The Ratiboriden can be traced for four generations in the 12th and 13th centuries.

history

The progenitor of this branch line, Ratibor I , and his brother Wartislaw I are the first two reliably documented dukes of Pomerania from the Greifenhaus. Ratibor I led an eventful life that led him to Norway in 1135, where he plundered the city of Konungahella (now Kungälv, Sweden). After the death of his brother Wartislaw I (1134/1148) Ratibor I ruled for his sons Bogislaw I and Casimir I. The latter took over the government as dukes of Pomerania after Ratibor's death (1156).

Ratibor's own descendants, on the other hand, ruled as princes in a smaller area in Western Pomerania , which is known as the Schlawe country or the Schlawe-Stolp rule . Little is known about them. With Ratibor II († before 1227) the branch line of the Ratiboriden died out in the third generation after Ratibor I in the male line . Ratibor II's sister, Margaretha (Audacia) , had married Count Heinrich I von Schwerin and only died in 1287 at a very old age.

After the Ratiborids died out with the death of Ratibor II, there were inheritance disputes about the Schlawe-Stolp rule between the main line of the Greifenhaus on the one hand and the Swantiborids ruling in Pomerania on the other. In 1235/36 Duke Swantopolk the Great of Pomerania took possession of the land of Schlawe-Stolp and kept it.

Tribe list of the Ratiboriden

  1. Ratibor I. († 1156) ∞ Pribislawa († after 1156), possibly daughter of Duke Bolesław III. Wrymouth of Poland
    1. Swantopolk , mentioned in 1175
    2. Wartislaw , mentioned 1186/1187
    3. Bogislaw von Schlawe
      1. Bogislaw III. ∞ NN, daughter of Duke Mieszko III. from Poland
        1. Ratibor II († before 1227)
        2. Margaretha (Audacia) († 1287) ∞ Count Heinrich I of Schwerin († 1228)
      2. Dobroslawa von Schlawe († after 1200) ∞ (I) Duke Boleslaw of Kuyavia († 1195); (II) Grimislaw , Herr von Schwetz and Libschau († after 1198)
    4. Margaretha von Schlawe ∞ Bernhard I , Count of Ratzeburg († 1195)

See also

literature

  • Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Verlag Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung, Stettin 1937, pp. 35–36, 40–41, 45–47, 55–56.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Rudolf Benl: Pomerania up to the division of 1368/72. In: Werner Buchholz (ed.): German history in Eastern Europe. Pomerania . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8 , p. 87.
  2. ↑ Illustration based on Martin Wehrmann. According to Rudolf Benl, however, Ratibor II should either be a half-brother of Bogislaw III. from the second marriage of his father or his cousin. Rudolf Benl: Pomerania until the division of 1368/72. In: Werner Buchholz (ed.): German history in Eastern Europe. Pomerania . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8 , p. 38.