Volkmar I. (Harzgau)

Volkmar I. , also Folkmar , († before 961) was count in the Harzgau . He was probably a son of Count Friedrich II in the Harzgau and grandson of Count Friedrich I in the Harzgau. He was probably the ancestor of the Wettins .

Life

Not much is known about Volkmar I. In 945 he received, together with his brother Rikbert, from King Otto I. ownership rights over previously royal property in Wieskau and four places in the Slavic area at the Fuhne in the Gau Serimunt . He is generally referred to as Count in the Harzgau, but the opinion has also been expressed that his brother Rikbert inherited the Harzgau and Volkmar the Schwabengau from their father Friedrich II.

Volkmar died before 961.

progeny

There are contradicting statements about his children.

According to the Lexicon of the Middle Ages (Volume IX) they were:
- Friedrich III., Count in the Harzgau
- Dietrich I. († 982), ancestor of the Wettins
- Frederuna, ∞ Brun, Count of Arneburg († 978)
According to Otto Posse , Die Wettiner: Genealogy of the Wettin House as a whole , they were:
- Rikdag II. , Margrave of Meissen († 985)
- Eilsuit, Abbess of Gerbstedt († after 985)

Web links

Material collection Medieval Genealogy / Volkmar 1. (Harzgau) ( Memento from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Material collection Medieval Genealogy / Friedrich 2. (Harzgau) ( Memento from May 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

literature

Frank-Lothar Kroll (Ed.), The rulers of Saxony: Margraves, Electors, Kings 1089–1918, Beck'sche Reihe vol. 1739, CH Beck, Munich, 2007, ISBN 3-406-54773-7 (p. 13)

Individual evidence

↑ F. Kurz, "History of the Saxon Palatinate Counties up to their Transition into a Territorial Principality," in Neue Mittheilungen from the field of historical-antiquarian research, Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity and Preservation of its Monuments, Volume XVII, Halle, 1889 , P. 275 ff. (P. 309)

personal data
SURNAME	Volkmar I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Folkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Graf in the Harzgau
DATE OF BIRTH	9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH	before 961

[1] F. Kurz, "History of the Saxon Palatinate Counties up to their Transition into a Territorial Principality," in Neue Mittheilungen from the field of historical-antiquarian research, Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity and Preservation of its Monuments, Volume XVII, Halle, 1889 , P. 275 ff. (P. 309)