Wendilgart

Wendilgart († probably 926, probably before 958) was a German noblewoman of the 10th century, who is important in the relationship between the Liudolfingers and the Conradinians .

The chronicler Ekkehard mentions Wendilgart as Heinrici regis de filia neptis - niece of King Heinrich I through a daughter. Hlawitschka considers the de filia part to be a later insertion, so that one of the king's brothers (Liudolf or Thankmar) can also be considered as a father.

Ekkehard also reports that Wendilgart was married to Count Uodalrich, in whom Count Udalrich († probably 924) is seen, the progenitor of the Counts of Bregenz (see Udalrichinger ). The children of Udalrich and Wendilgart are named here: Adalhard, a daughter who is not known by name, and Burchard, who later became (958–971) abbot of the St. Gallen monastery . Her oldest son, however, was Udalrich († 950/57).

The importance of Wendilgard lies - following Hlawitschka - in her descendants. Her daughter married the Ahalolfinger Adalbert von Marchtal, whose daughter was called Judith, who identifies Hlawitschka with the wife of Konrad von Böckelheim, whom he in turn sees as the parents of Duke Hermann II of Swabia , the candidate from the king's election of 1002 : Wendilgart would be the connection between the Liudolfingern and Duke Hermann, and thus the family basis for his claim to the throne in the election of the king in 1002. The filiation shown by Hlawitschka is, however, controversial in research.

Wendilgart in the legend

Wendilgart is a figure in one of the legends of the Brothers Grimm : “Udalrich and Wendilgart and the unborn Burkard” (No. 531): “Udalrich, Count zu Buchhorn (on Lake Constance), descended from Karl's line, was with Wendilgart, Heinrich des Voglers Niece, married. In his time the heathen (Hungarians) broke into Bavaria, Udalrich went to war, was captured and taken away. Wendilgart, who had heard that he had remained dead in the battle, did not want to marry again, but went to St. Gallen, where she lived quietly and withdrawn and did benefits to the poor for her husband's soul. "

Burkard is her son, who later became the abbot of Sankt Gallen, who, according to legend, was not born but was born through a cut: “Fourteen days before she was born, Wendilgart suddenly fell ill and died. The child, however, was cut out of the body alive and wrapped in a freshly peeled pork rind. "

literature

• Ekkehard IV of St. Gallen: Casus Sancti Gall
• Eberhard Knapp: Udalrich and Wendilgard , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 42nd year 1913, pp. 6-14 ( digitized version )
• Michael Borgolte : The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times. A Prosopography (1986); Udalrich (VI.)
• Winfried Glocker: The relatives of the Ottonians and their significance in politics (Diss. 1989)
• Roland Rappmann, Alfons Zettler: The Reichenau monk community and their commemoration of the dead in the early Middle Ages (1998), p. 486
• Eduard Hlawitschka : The ancestors of the high medieval German kings, emperors and their wives (2006)
• Armin Wolf : Ancestors of German kings and queens. In: Herold Yearbook. New series, Volume 15 (2010), pp. 77ff

Footnotes

1. ↑ both: Rappmann / Zettler, p. 486
2. ↑ Ekkehard, caput 82-85
3. ↑ so also Glockner, p. 277
4. ↑ Wolf, pp. 126/127; Glocker, who did his doctorate under Hlawitschka, writes (p. 292), "that there is no source reference for the connection given above [...]: it is a - albeit well-founded - construction"; Ludger Körntgen: Inprimis Herimanni ducis assensu. On the function of DHII. 34 in the conflict between Heinrich II. And Hermann von Schwaben, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien, Vol. 34 (2000) pp. 159-185: "especially the attempts of Eduard Hlawitschka and Armin Wolf to find Ottonian kinship in all pretenders to the throne of 1002, [have] not found general acceptance "(p. 159f, footnote 6)