Warin (Thurgau)

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Warin († May 20, 774 ) was a Frankish nobleman who left many traces in the history of Alemannia in the middle of the 8th century .

Life

After the Alemannic duchy was smashed by the Carolingians and by the blood court of Cannstatt (746), he was one of those Franks alongside Ruthard who enforced Franconian rule in Alemannia as "administratores Alamanniae", who organized the Franconian county constitution and the fiscal estate . He was mainly active south of Lake Constance , while Ruthard worked more north of the lake.

Warin has been recorded as a count in Thurgau since 754. In 759 it was he and Ruthard who persecuted the founder of the monastery, Otmar von St. Gallen , took prisoner, accused him and had him tried. This action was triggered by tensions between the monastery and the Bishop of Konstanz, who wanted to make St. Gallen subordinate to his diocese. Ruthard and Warin received goods from St. Gallen's property as gifts for their support, which Ruthard only partially incorporated into the treasury. In his last years, probably similar to Ruthard's after Charlemagne's accession to the throne , his influence declined without it being possible to speak of a fall. His son Isanbard was apparently able to take over the office of count from him, at least in Thurgau, and tried to come to an understanding with the St. Gallen monastery, but without burdening his father.

That was done by King Konrad I , who visited the St. Gallen monastery in December 911, just one month after his election, and promised an annual donation to Otmar's grave because he was the "son of those executioners" (meaning Ruthard and Warin) and thus obliged to atonement.

family

Warin was married to Hadellind and both founded the Buchau monastery around 770 . Hadellind is given as the daughter of Hildebrand, Duke of Spoleto , and the Regarde, who in turn is said to have been a sister of the Bavarian Duke Odilo , even if the Buchau founding legend Hildebrand as the Swabian Duke and Regarde as the Bavarian Duchess and sister of Hildegard, Karl's wife the great, and Hadellind officiated as the first abbess until around 809.

The sons of Warin and Hadellind are:

  • Isanbard, Count in Thurgau
  • Swabo

The chronicler Ekkehard IV apparently considers Warin (and Ruthard) to be Guelphs . Hans Jänichen, who sees two people in Ruthard, Ruthard the elder and Ruthard the younger, father and son, sees in Warin the son of one and the brother of the other, without contradicting Ekkehard IV. Jänichen's view is controversial. Josef Fleckenstein, in turn, suspects a member of the Widonen family in Warin .

See also

literature

  • Ekkehard IV .: St. Galler Klostergeschichten (= selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Vol. 10). Translated by Hans F. Haefele. 5th edition, bibliographically updated and extended by a supplement. With an addendum by Steffen Patzold . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-26033-1 .
  • Hans Jänichen : Warin, Ruthard and Scrot. Property historical considerations on the early history of Buchau Abbey. In: Journal for Württemberg State History . Vol. 14, 1955, pp. 372-384.
  • Josef Fleckenstein : About the origin of the Guelphs and their beginnings in southern Germany. In: Gerd Tellenbach (Hrsg.): Studies and preliminary work on the history of the Greater Franconian and early German nobility (= research on the Upper Rhine regional history. Vol. 4, ISSN  0532-2197 ). Albert, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1957, pp. 71-136.
  • Michael Borgolte : The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times. A prosopography (= archeology and history. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-7351-8 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, habilitation paper, 1981/1982).
  • Rudolf Schieffer : The Karolinger (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. 411). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-17-010759-3 .
  • Andreas Thiele : Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume 1: German imperial, royal, ducal and count houses. Volume 1. 2., revised and expanded edition. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-89406-965-1 , plate 27.
  • Warin . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 2049.
  • Alois Niederstätter , Welfish traces south of Lake Constance and in Raetia. In: Karl-Ludwig Ay , Joachim Jahn , Lorenz Maier (eds.): Die Welfen. Regional historical aspects of their rule (= Forum Suevicum. Contributions to the history of East Swabia and the neighboring regions. Vol. 2). UVK - Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 3-87940-598-0 , pp. 97-115.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Warin . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 2049.
  2. ^ Name of Walahfrid Strabo , s. Borgolte
  3. ↑ Lexicon of the Middle Ages, Josef Fleckenstein
  4. ↑ a b Michael Borgolte
  5. ↑ Ekkehard IV. 12, 16 and 21
  6. ↑ Niederstätter, p. 97; Michael Borgolte
  7. ^ Andreas Thiele, plate 27
  8. ↑ see article on Buchau monastery
  9. ↑ Josef Fleckenstein, Michael Borgolte
personal data
SURNAME Was in
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count in Alemannia
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 774