Werner I. (Maggot)

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Werner I. “von Winterthur” (* around 1000; † August 22, 1040 ) came as a henchman and imperial ensign of the Salian rulers Konrad II and Heinrich III. to considerable influence as Count in Hessengau . After the death of his father in 1030 he also became Count of Winterthur . He fell in the battle of Biwanka .

genealogy

Werner's ancestry is not undisputed, but he was probably a son or nephew of Count Adalbert I of Winterthur from the Udalrichinger family and is therefore also known as Werner I of Winterthur. He married Irmgard von Nellenburg , a daughter or sister of the neighboring Count Eberhard V. (Eppo) von Nellenburg . There were four sons known by name from this marriage:

Count in Hesse and Count of Winterthur

Werner was evidently a loyal follower of Konrad II , who had been elected king in Kamba in 1024 and then rewarded his supporters with offices, fiefs and privileges. From 1024 onwards Werner and his descendants are documented first as bailiffs of the Reichsabtei Kaufungen and from 1027 as owners of the Gugrafschaft Maden in the Franconian Hessengau. Werner I and his successors were then also called Counts of Maden or, after their seat on the Obernburg in Gudensberg , Counts of Gudensberg. The county was from the time of Emperor Otto I , a fief of the archbishops of Mainz have been.

Until his death, Werner acquired other considerable possessions and rights in Niederhessen , Upper Hesse and Neckargau , which were superior to his inherited possessions in Swabia . With this and with other acquisitions among his descendants, his family finally became almost as powerful and influential in Hesse as the Conradines had been before them.

After his father's death in 1030, he became Count of Winterthur as his heir and successor .

Death as a bearer of the Reich banner

Werner I fell on August 22, 1040 as " precursor and standard-bearer " ( Latin primicerius et signifer regis ) Heinrich III. in his campaign against Duke Břetislav I of Bohemia. During a reconnaissance ride at Neumarker Pass , he was tempted to advance and was ambushed in which he, his son Liutfrid (or Lütfrid) and most of the people entrusted to him were killed in the battle of Biwanka .

His son Werner II. Succeeded his father as Count in Hessengau and Neckargau and as a royal standard bearer, while Adalbert inherited his father as Count Adalbert II of Winterthur in Thurgau . Both fell together with their cousin Burkhard II von Nellenburg on June 18, 1053 in the Norman Battle of Civitate , where they formed the only non-Italian contingent of Pope Leo IX's defeated army with 600 Swabian foot soldiers . to whom they were related. The third living son, Hermann, became abbot of Einsiedeln in 1051 and died in 1065.

literature

  • Paul Kläui : The Swabian origin of Count Werner . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Vol. 69, 1958, pp. 9-18.
  • Karl Hermann May: Reichsbanneramt and right of litigation from a Hessian perspective . Münster / Cologne 1952.
  • Max Perlbach : The Wars of Henry III. against Bohemia. 1039-1041. Dieterich'sche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1870, PDF (1.63 MB) .
  • Gustav Schenk zu Schweinsberg : The Wernerische Grafenhaus in Neckargau, Hessengau, Lahngau and Worms. In: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- und Alterthumsvereine 23/7 (1875), pp. 49–52.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Different way of counting: Werner II. In the German biography , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Paul Kläui : The Swabian origin of Count Werner , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Vol. 69, 1958, pp. 9-18. A descent from Adalbert's brother Werner von Kyburg , who also died in 1030, would also be possible.
  3. ↑ Wolfram Herwig: Emperor Konrad II. Emperor of three kingdoms , CH Beck, Munich 2000, pp. 69, 81 and 188.
  4. ↑ Max Perlbach , The Wars of Heinrich III. against Bohemia. 1039-1041. Dieterich'sche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1870, p. 446ff PDF (1.63 MB) .
  5. ↑ Source: Regesta Imperii Online RI III, 5.2 n.1078 .
personal data
SURNAME Werner I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner I. of Winterthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Winterthur, Gaugraf in Hessengau, bearer of the imperial banner
DATE OF BIRTH around 1000
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1040