Rudolf II (Stade)

Rudolf II († March 14, 1144 ) was Count of Stade , Dithmarschen and Freckleben and Margrave of the Nordmark (1133).

Life

Rudolf was a son of Rudolf I. von Stade and Richardis von Sponheim . In 1133 he became Margrave of the Nordmark, after the death of Konrad von Plötzkau, who was on the Italian expedition of Lothar III. hit by an arrow and died of this wound at the turn of the year 1132/33.

In 1134 the margraviate was withdrawn from him because the emperor Lothar III. whose right of succession did not recognize and instead awarded the mark to Albrecht the Bear .

On March 14, 1144 he was killed by locals in Dithmarschen. This event is still performed every five years in a play in the town of Burg .

Marriage and offspring

Rudolf was married to Elisabeth, daughter of Margrave Leopold I of Styria . Descendants have not been passed down. With him, the Counts of Stade died out in the male line. In 1144 Heinrich the Lion laid claim to the county of Dithmarschen after Rudolf's death.

literature

Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Lothar Udo II and the Stade Count House. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 257-260.

Remarks

↑ Annales Magdeburgensis to 1144: Rothulfus comes de Staden interfectus est a Transalbianis Saxonibus, qui tedmarsgoi dicuntur, propterea quia oppressiones eius diutius ferre noluerunt. - Count Rudolf von Stade was slain by the Trans-Albingian Saxons, who are called Dithmarschers, because they no longer wanted to endure his oppression
↑ A chronicle from the 15th century showed that Count Rudolf had resided in the local Bökelburg . He ruled the Dithmarschers with a hard hand and demanded the grain tithe even after several years of drought. In 1145, the Dithmarsch farmers managed to get rid of the unloved regent with the help of a ruse: Hidden in sacks of grain, some farmers were brought to the castle on a cart early in the morning. As agreed, they opened the sacks at the sound of the battle cry "Roar de Hann, snidet de Sacksbann!" (Stir your hands, cut the sack volumes). They set the castle on fire, killed the count and his wife Walburga and thus regained their freedom. Thus the Chronicon Holtzatiae ( Holstein Chronicle ) from a Presbyter Bremensis ( Presbyter from Bremen ), cf. Dahlmann, Appendix to the first volume of Neokorus, 1827, Reprint 1978, p. 577

personal data
SURNAME	Rudolf II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Stade, Dithmarschen and Freckleben and Margrave of Nordmark
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1144

[1] Annales Magdeburgensis to 1144: Rothulfus comes de Staden interfectus est a Transalbianis Saxonibus, qui tedmarsgoi dicuntur, propterea quia oppressiones eius diutius ferre noluerunt. - Count Rudolf von Stade was slain by the Trans-Albingian Saxons, who are called Dithmarschers, because they no longer wanted to endure his oppression

[2] A chronicle from the 15th century showed that Count Rudolf had resided in the local Bökelburg . He ruled the Dithmarschers with a hard hand and demanded the grain tithe even after several years of drought. In 1145, the Dithmarsch farmers managed to get rid of the unloved regent with the help of a ruse: Hidden in sacks of grain, some farmers were brought to the castle on a cart early in the morning. As agreed, they opened the sacks at the sound of the battle cry "Roar de Hann, snidet de Sacksbann!" (Stir your hands, cut the sack volumes). They set the castle on fire, killed the count and his wife Walburga and thus regained their freedom. Thus the Chronicon Holtzatiae ( Holstein Chronicle ) from a Presbyter Bremensis ( Presbyter from Bremen ), cf. Dahlmann, Appendix to the first volume of Neokorus, 1827, Reprint 1978, p. 577