Uko Fockena

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Uko Fockena ( Ukena ), also "Uko von Oldersum " (* around 1408 in Oldersum (uncertain); † June 13, 1432 near Suurhusen ) was an East Frisian chief of the Moormerland and Emsigerland .

Life

Uko was one of the sons of the East Frisian chief Focko Ukena and his wife Theda von Rheide (* around 1365; † before 1411).

In 1424 Uko and Udo Poppinga acquired the Hof tor Brake (also "zu Brahe / Brae" ) in the Emsland from the squire Ecerd von der Bele. His brother-in-law Ocko tom Brok ( "Ocko to Broke" ), chief of Brokmerland , asked in a letter of September 17, 1424 the abbot of Werden to enfeoff Uko with this court and confirmed that Uko was a free man by birth, genuine and right, from his four ancestors and submissive.

Between 1425 and 1427 Uko married Hebe / Heba von Dornum, a daughter of Lütet Attena von Dornum and Nesse and Ocka tom Brok. Theda Ukena (* before 1432; † September 17, 1494), who in 1455 became the wife of Ulrich I. Cirksena , governor of East Friesland and in 1464 first count of East Friesland, is documented as the daughter and heir of this couple .

From 1424 Uko and his father opposed the East Frisian chiefs of the tom Brok, which Focko Ukena had transferred to Flecken and Castle Oldersum around 1413 . Ocko II. Tom Brok demanded the return of the castle from Focko and won an arbitration award from the city of Groningen on June 6, 1426. Focko refused this decision and defeated Ocko in armed clashes in the Battle of Detern on September 27, 1426 and in the Battle of the Wild Fields on October 28, 1427. The Ukena made themselves champions of the principle of Frisian freedom .

From the spoils of war, Uko received the glory Oldersum, which also included the parishes of Gandersum , Rorichum , Tergast and Simonswolde . In 1428 Uko Fockena called himself "Chief of Oldersum" . The "Oldersumer Chronik" reports that Uko strengthened the castle in Oldersum with 80,000 stones that he won from the demolition of the Fockenburg in Borssum .

In 1430 Uko was besieged in Oldersum Castle by a group of Frisian chiefs who had come together to oppose the Ukena under the leadership of the Cirksena. On November 2nd, 1430 Uko had to give up his claim to rule. In a contract with the besiegers, however, based on the legal claims of his wife, a granddaughter of Ocko I. tom Brok, he was able to obtain the right to live in the castle. Uko stayed there until 1432.

His father, who had fled to Munster after the fall of his castle in Leer , did not give up the power struggle and invited his son Uko to a meeting with his ally Imel Allena in Groothusen . On the way there, Uko von Oldersum was attacked and killed on June 13, 1432 in the reed area between Marienwehr and Suurhusen. He was buried in the Gasthauskirche Emden . In this church belonging to the Franciscan monastery in Emden , which was destroyed by fire on July 21, 1938, Uko's daughter Theda had a portrait tombstone installed for him.

literature

  • Ernst Friedländer: Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch (Volume 1). Emden 1878: No. 320, 324-326, 335, 338, 339, 349, 362, 365, 371, 376, 384, 389, 499, 774, 804.
  • Hajo van Lengen : peasant freedom and chief rule . In: Karl-Ernst Behre, Hajo van Lengen: Ostfriesland. History and shape of a cultural landscape ; Aurich 1995. pp. 113-134.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bojer: Emsländische Heimatkunde in National Socialism . Self-published. Lingen / Ems 2005, p. 182.
  2. ↑ St.A. Osnabrück, Rep. 26a Emsland-Meppen Certificate No. 5, with the stamp of the exhibitor: s (igillum) Ockonis in Brok capit. (Alis).
  3. ^ Ernst Friedländer: Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch (Volume 1). Emden 1878. No. 324
  4. ^ A b Herbert Kannegieter: Oldersumer Chronik , self-published. 1.A. Emden 1987. p. 19.
  5. ^ Ernst Friedländer: Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch (Volume 1). Emden 1878. No. 389 of November 5, 1430.
  6. ↑ Hajo van Lengen: The late Gothic portrait tombs of the Heba Attena and the Uko Ukena and their political significance . In: Emder Jahrbuch 80 (2000), pp. 68-69.
  7. ^ Stephanie Hahn and Michael Sprenger (eds): Herrschaft - Architektur- Raum . Berlin 2008. p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Fockena, Uko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ukena, Uko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian chief
DATE OF BIRTH around 1408
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Oldersum
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1432
Place of death near Suurhusen