Walahones
The Walahons were an aristocratic family who held counts' offices on the Middle Rhine, especially in the 9th century. Its importance lies above all in the family relationships with the Robertinians , the Conradinians and the Salians and thus as a link between these outstanding families of the Middle Ages.
In the years 842 to 902 counts with the name Walaho are attested - although it is not known how many people are involved - who officiated in the Nahegau , Niddagau , Speyergau and Wormsgau .
The best-known member of the family is that Walaho († probably above 891) connected to Oda, daughter of Robertiners Robert III. was married, and who was the successor to Robert († before 834) and his sons Guntram († 837) and Robert the Brave in Wormsgau, when the latter moved the focus of his activities to western France .
Probably a daughter Walahos and Oda was Wiltrud that the Conradines , married Eberhard († 902/903) Count in Niederlahngau and the Ortenau and uncle of the later German King Konrad I. A daughter Wiltruds and Eberhard's turn, could the wife of Wormsgaugrafen Werner was his, the first historically tangible Salier .
Another Walaho is attested in the years 891/902. He was the father of a count Burkhard, attested in 905, who married Gisela, the widow of Meingaud († 892), who had been count in Maienfeld and also in Wormsgau. Both counties went to Burkhard, at least the Wormsgau, however, only after his father Walaho had ruled there.
A third Walahone is known from the same time, Count Stephan, who was one of the supporters of Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia in Lotharingia , but also so involved in the opposition to Arnulf's son Zwentibold that he died on August 13, 900 (Arnulf was 899 died) was one of those who killed Zwentibold in a battle. Two years after this act, at the end of 901, Stephan himself was violently killed.
It is generally assumed that the Walahones belong to the close circle around the Salier , without the exact relationship being clear. The reasons given are:
- The Salians and the Walahones exercised the count's rights in the same district
- In the year 900 a Walaho is attested as a lay abbot in the Salian monastery Hornbach .
- The Salians took over the Walahon inheritance in offices and property.
literature
- Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , page 72f
- Donald C. Jackman : The Konradiner: A Study in genealogical methodology , 1990
- Donald C. Jackman: Ius hereditarium Encountered, Part I: The Meingaud-Walaho Inheritance , Archive for Medieval Prosopography, October 2007, Part II and III in preparation
- Thilo Offergeld: Reges pueri. The royalty of minors in the early Middle Ages.
- Hermann Schreibmüller : The ancestors of Emperor Konrad II and Bishop Brunos of Würzburg , in: Herbiopolis Jubilans. 1200 years of the Diocese of Würzburg , p. 201
Footnotes
- ↑ Jackman, p. 125, cf. Literature, called Wormsfeld there
- ↑ cf. Regino von Prüm , Chronicon for the year 900
- ↑ Baldes, quoted in Schreibmüller, see literature