Ricdag

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The name Ricdag was borne by various members of a noble family from the tribal duchy of Saxony , which is therefore also known as the Ricdag clan .

history

The family was closely related to the Immedingern , the Harzgaugrafen , the Liudolfingern and Esikonen . There was also a possible relationship with the Haolden . The family originally owned property in particular in the Marstemgau near the Deister ridge . The family also owned the Lochtropgau in what is now the Sauerland.

A Richard died in 804 as an exile from Charlemagne . This was the father of Count Ricdag. A brother of Richard's named Richholf was murdered in 798. Ricdag was one of the followers of Ludwig the Pious during his arguments with his sons. For his loyalty he was awarded property on Hellweg in Westphalia . Among them was Geseke's donation in 833 . Together with his wife Emhild he founded the Lamspringe women's convent in the diocese of Hildesheim around 847 . To do this, the donors traveled to Rome . There they received relics of St. Hadrian from Pope Sergius II . The daughter Ricburg became the first abbess of the monastery.

Another Ricdag or Reddag lived probably a generation later. This is one of the ancestors of the Counts of Werl . Around 870 he founded the Meschede Monastery together with his wife or daughter, who was called Emhildis like her ancestor . It is also mentioned in connection with the Geseke women's foundation founded by Haholden . At that time he handed over a manse in Erwitte to the Corvey monastery .

Margrave Ricdag von Meißen was also distantly connected to the family .

The Hildesheim bishops Osdag and Gerdag are also assigned to the family . Through his mother Richeit, Bishop Altfried von Munster was possibly connected to the family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 833 Donation from Geseke to Count Ricdag
  2. ↑ Sergius II. (RI I, 4, 2) n.11 (Regest RI-Online)
  3. ↑ Hans Goetting: The Diocese of Hildesheim. The Hildesheim bishops from 815 to 1221 (1227). Berlin u. a., 1984 (Germania Sacra NF 20.3) p. 164

literature

  • Hans Dieter Tönsmeyer: Count Ricdag and the older Liudolfinger at Hellweg and Lippe. In: Lippstädter Heimatblätter 66/1986 pp. 127–144
  • Paul Leidinger: The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980-1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia, Volume I, The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Münster 2009 ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 p. 124f.
  • Caspar Ehlers: The integration of Saxony into the Frankish empire. Göttingen, 2005 BC a. P. 171f.
  • Reinhard Wenskus: Saxon tribal nobility and Frankish imperial nobility. Göttingen, 1976
  • Fritz Droste: A thesis on the founding history of the Meschede monastery. In: Sauerland 3/1991 p. 84f.