Werner I. (Prefect of the Ostland)

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Werner I. (Warnharius) (* around 760/65; † 814 in Pfalz Aachen ) is said to have come from the group of founders around the monasteries Hornbach and Mettlach ( Bliesgau ). He was a co-owner of Hornbach and the progenitor or relative of the Salians , ( list of the Salians ).

Werner was count , royal emissary and prefect of the Bavarian east country of Charlemagne . The founding of the Avar principality in 805, which he presided over as prefect, should fall during Werner's term of office.

He owned property in Lobdengau , Oberrheingau and Wormsgau . The following donations to Lorsch Abbey are known from the Lorsch Codex :

  • Document 801 of April 2, 767 in Dielheim near Wiesloch, Heidelberg (Lobdengau)
  • Document 214 of May 18, 785 in Pfungstadt near Darmstadt (Oberrheingau)
  • Certificate 472 of July 8, 792 in Ilvesheim near Mannheim and Neuenheim near Heidelberg (Lobdengau)
  • Document 1003 of October 21, 812 in Rheindürkheim near Worms (Wormsgau)

His wife was called Engiltrut and was the daughter of Count Eberhard ( Sieghardinger ) and Adeltrut, who gave four Ibersheim estates to Lorsch Abbey:

  • Document 1403 of June 1, 770, a vineyard
  • Deed 1489 of 770/771, two vineyards and one acre of land
  • Document 1478 of June 12, 772, five vine plantings
  • Document 1488 of June 8th, 778, three vineyards

Werner I. and Engiltrut had the children: Herard, Willigard, Werner II. And Nanther.

After the death of Charlemagne , Werner I and his nephew Lantpert were sent ahead to Aachen to cleanse the imperial palace of unfair elements for Ludwig the Pious . There was a bloody conflict in the course of which Werner was killed / slain.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , I. Theil, Neustadt an der Haardt 1836, p. 55
  • Michael Mitterauer : Carolingian margraves in the southeast . H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1963, pp. 65, 69, 212
  • Andreas Thiele: Supplementary genealogical family tables for European history. Volume II, Part 2, Fischer Verlag 1994, plate 389

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b [1]
  2. ^ Herwig Wolfram: Salzburg, Bavaria, Austria. The Conversio Bagoarium et Carantanorum and the sources of their time , Verlag Oldenbourg, Vienna, Munich, Oldenbourg 1996
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex. In: Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Heidelberg University Library, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/salier_2/werner_1_praefekt_des_ostlandes_814_widone/werner_1_praefekt_des_ostlandes_+_814.html
  5. ↑ Anton Doll: The Pirmin Kloster Hornbach, in: Archives for Middle Rhine church history, Speyer in 1953, from page 121
personal data
SURNAME Werner I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warnharius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prefect of the East Country
DATE OF BIRTH at 760 or 765
DATE OF DEATH 814
Place of death Palatinate Aachen