Thakulf

Thakulf (* before 837; † August 1, 873 ) was the first verifiable margrave of the Sorbian march . In a letter from Abbot Hatto I of Fulda (842–856) to Pope Leo IV , he was named Duke of the Thuringians.

Thakulf appears for the first time in a Fulda deed of donation in 837 as a witness. In 848 he gave the Fulda monastery from his own property "provinciola Sarowe sita juxta Boemiam", which probably means the Saara and Schmölln area in southern Pleißengau . However, this possession was lost again to the Fulda monastery, perhaps in the years after 880 or 892, when the structure of the Sorbian market was shaken. The Fulda annals report that he tried in 855 to subjugate the Daleminzen . In 858 he leads a campaign against the Sorbs.

Ratolf was his successor in 874.

literature

• Reinhard Spehr : Christianization and the earliest church organization in the Mark Meissen. An attempt . In: Judith Oexle (ed.): Early churches in Saxony. Results of archaeological and architectural studies (publication by the State Office for Archeology and State Museum for Prehistory 23) Stuttgart 1994, pp. 9–63. ISBN 3-8062-1094-2 .
• Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Thakolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 361 f.