Udo from Katlenburg

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Udo (* around 975; † after 1040) was Count in Lies- and Rittigau and personal Vogt of Archbishop Unwan of Hamburg-Bremen. He is the first secured ancestor of the Counts of Katlenburg .

Life

origin

The origin of Udo and his brother Heinrich is unclear. Because Heinrich and Udo are among the leading names of the Udons , today it is mostly represented that Heinrich and Udo were sons of 994 in a sea battle on the Lower Elbe against the Normans (Luder-) Udo I. von Harsefeld. There is no diplomatic proof of this, nor is there any evidence of ownership.

Udo was working for Archbishop Unwan of Hamburg-Bremen as his bailiff when he transferred inheritance to the Paderborn Church in the hands of his relative, Bishop Meinwerk von Paderborn . Therefore, as Unwan's next sword cousin, he must have been closely related to both bishops who belonged to the Immedinger clan . Another close relationship existed with Bishop Dietrich I (Münster) , whom he supported in his feud against the Counts of Werl. In 1018 he took Count Hermann II von Werl prisoner as part of this conflict.

Thietmars von Merseburg's mother Kunigunde is secured as the daughter of the legate and Count Heinrich I von Harsefeld / Stade. Since Thietmar describes Bishop Dietrich I of Münster as the son of his mother's sister, she was also a Udonin. Presumably her name was Gerburg. Thietmar von Merseburg also calls Count Udo his cousin. Therefore Udo and Heinrich von Katlenburg could also have been sons of Gerburg, so that Udo then supported Bishop Dietrich von Münster not only as his cousin, but as his brother against the Werler. In this case, the father of the three brothers could either have been the Saxon Count Palatine Dietrich († 995) or his brother Sigbert († 995). The latter had been Graf im Liesgau before the Katlenburg brothers.

Since Thietmar von Merseburg called them “confreres”, it was previously assumed that the two half-brothers of the other brother couple Siegfried II. And Benno von Northeim were sons from Siegfried I von Northeim's second marriage to Ethilinde. This theory is now considered unlikely.

Blood act of 1002

Udo first appeared on April 30, 1002, when he, together with his presumably older brother Heinrich II and the Northeim brothers Siegfried II and Benno (Bernhard), killed the applicant for the royal dignity of Margrave Ekkehard I of Meissen in Pöhlde . According to Thietmar von Merseburg, it was not a political act, but allegedly a private feud because Margrave Ekkehard was responsible for flogging Udo's brother Heinrich. This could be indicated by the fact that Udo, as far as can be seen, was not punished for participating in the act. Count Heinrich II. Von Harsefeld , probably her uncle, donated a collegiate pen at his Harsefeld Castle as atonement for the murder .

However, as there was blood on the name Udo, it was no longer used in his descendants. His son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were each named Dietrich. Something similar can be observed with the Counts of Oldenburg for the name Egilmar and with the Counts of Stade for the name Gero.

Marriage and children

Udo was married from Schwaben derived Beatrice of Oberstenfeld (* 970), the daughter of Adelhard of Oberstenfeld (* 950; † after 1026), count of Supreme field and donor of the convent Supreme field (1016). Children were

  • Imma (* around 990)
  • Dietrich I. (* around 1000; † 1056)

Domain

After 1013 Udo officiated in the Pöhlde area, i.e. in the eastern part of the Liesgau, where his brother Heinrich Graf had been in 997. He also administered a county in the small Gau Hemmersfeld, which was part of the Saxon Hessengau .

In 1027/39 Udo bequeathed his wife's estates, Nürtingen in Neckargau and Holzhausen in the county of Werner , to King Konrad II (Nürtingen was given to the Bishop of Speyer by Heinrich III in 1046 ). For this they received the county in Liesgau and a forest in the Harz from Konrad II as hereditary fiefs; this fiefdom should go to the one of both sexes who is in possession of the estate in Einbeck . This coupling of the imperial fiefs of Count Udo with his inheritance in Einbeck suggests that his first manor stood there until it was converted into the Alexander monastery by his grandson around 1082 . Whether he the resulting probably in the 11th century Katlenburg in today Katlenburg had or had built is unknown.

literature

  • Richard G. Hucke: The Counts of Stade 900-1144, genealogy, political position, comitat and allodial property of the Saxon Udonen . Dissertation Kiel, Stade 1956
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: The Counts of Katlenburg (997–1106) . Dissertation Göttingen 1974
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: On the localization of the PAGUS HEMMERUELDUN . In: Contributions to name research . New Series, Volume 13, 1978, pp. 306-330
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: Einbeck and the Counts of Katlenburg . In: Einbecker yearbook . Volume 36, 1985, pp. 37-57
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: The Counts of Katlenburg 997–1106 . In: Northeimer Jahrbuch . Volume 60, 1995, pp. 28-50
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: The Counts of Northeim and their possessions between Niederelbe and Niederweser, comments on the donation of Countess Adelas von Beichlingen to the Katlenburg monastery (1105) . In: Stader yearbook . 2003/2004, pp. 53-63
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: From the early Middle Ages to the reform period . In: Birgit Schlegel (ed.): Katlenburg and Duhm, From early history to the present . Duderstadt 2004, pp. 15–62
  • Hans-Joachim Winzer: Studies on the relationships between the counts of Katlenburg and the counts of Stade in the Middle Ages . Stade - Northeim 2011

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/werl_grafen_von/familie_der_grafen_von_werl.html
  2. ↑ See Grafschaft Northeim # Stammliste
personal data
SURNAME Udo from Katlenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count in Lies- and Rittigau and Vogt of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH around 975
DATE OF DEATH after 1040