Whale pots
The Walpoten were a ministerial family that was close to the Schweinfurt counts as well as the king.
origin
The first documentary mention was in the year 994, when Walpoto appeared as a witness of the king at a court hearing in the county of Vicenza (Dominus Joannes (Patriarcha Aquilejensis) et Oci qui est Waltpot Comes et Missos regius Domini Ottonis (III. Imperatoris)). In addition to ministerialis aulae, he was also royal missus and often appeared in the county of Pustertal [Lurn]. In 1007 another Walpoto appeared who presided over a hearing in the diocese of Saeben / Brixen.
According to Voit, the Walpoten first appeared in a document in 1015, when Bishop Eberhard I of Bamberg entrusted two of them, Hemmo and Reginolt, with the administration of the Michelsberg Monastery in Bamberg . The two are likely to have been the sons of Walpoto, named 1007. Their home country was around Zwernitz Castle (municipality of Wonsees). In the year 1300 the whale pots were mentioned for the last time in a document for the Langheim monastery .
literature
- Karlheinz Hengst : The whale pots. Critical consideration of a name and its main Wendish interpretation . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia 80, 2000, ISSN 0066-6335 , pp. 31-40.
- Harald Stark : The whale pots between Radenzgau and Nordgau. A contribution to the "Zwerenz problem" . In: Wir am Steinwald 6, 1998, ZDB -ID 1302341-x , pp. 63-72.
- Gustav Voit: The whale pots. On the trail of the oldest noble family in Franconian Switzerland . Palm & Enke, Erlangen et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7896-0562-X ( The Franconian Switzerland - local history supplements 11).
- Wolfgang Schippke: The county of Pustertal and its first churches , in BuFr. III (1994) p. 5 ff.