Werner II (maggots)

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Werner II. (* Around 1020; † June 18, 1053 ) was Count von Maden ( Hessengau ), Count of Neckargau and as Reichssturmfähnrich Count von Grüningen .

Familiar

Werner II. Was one of four sons of the Swabian Count Werner I , who was married to Irmgard von Nellenburg . Werner I was possibly related to the Salian royal family and the Counts of Egisheim and in 1027 was enfeoffed with the county of Maden by Emperor Konrad II .

Werner's brother Luitfried fell on August 22, 1040 together with her father during the war of King Henry III. against Břetislav I of Bohemia . While Werner succeeded his father as Count in Hesse and Neckargau and as Reichssturmfähnrich, his second brother Adalbert II of Winterthur took over the ancestral county in Thurgau . His third brother Hermann was destined for a spiritual career. He became abbot of Einsiedeln in 1051 and died there in 1065.

Werner II had a son named Werner with an unknown wife .

Counties

As Gaugraf in Hesse or Count von Maden, Werner II also resided at the Obernburg in Gudensberg in Northern Hesse from at least 1045 onwards . In addition to the offices and possessions he inherited, he acquired the bailiwick of the Walpurgis monastery in Weilburg .

In Swabia he was Gaugraf in Neckargau on the Middle Neckar and as Reichssturmfähnrich Graf von Grüningen , an imperial fiefdom that was linked to this office.

According to Italian sources, Pope Leo IX. , who came from the Egisheim-Dagsburg dynasty, whom Werner II, related to him, appointed as counts in the Pentapolis and in Ancona .

Death as the bearer of the Reich banner in the service of the Pope

Replica of the imperial storm flag: a standard with a long red pennant

Werner II fell together with his brother Adalbert II von Winterthur and their cousin Burkhard II von Nellenburg on June 18, 1053 in the Battle of the Normans near Civitate in Apulia . Since Heinrich III, who was crowned Emperor by the Pope in 1046 . did not want to take part in this campaign of the Papal States against the Normans , the three counts with other nobles and 600 foot soldiers from Swabia were part of the only non-Italian contingent of Pope Leo IX's devastated army .

Succession

Like his father, Werner II was also " primicerius et signifer regis" ( forerunner and standard bearer of the king). Since this imperial office was hereditary, his son Werner III. and after his early death, his grandson Werner IV, when they reached the age of majority, succeeded him as Reichsbannerträger and Count von Grüningen. Both guardians are said to have been Count Eberhard the Blessed von Nellenburg , a cousin of Werner II. Accordingly, Eberhard is documented as a count in Neckargau, who benefited in 1059 from the intercession of the imperial widow Agnes .

literature

  • Ludwig Friedrich Heyd : History of the Counts of Gröningen . Stuttgart 1829.
  • 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.
  • 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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Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ King Henry III. 1046 gave away a "curtem, nomine Niuritingen , sitam in pago Nechergowe, in comitatu Werinharii comitis". Source: WUB Volume I., No. 227, pp. 269–270
  2. ↑ Ludwig Friedrich Heyd : History of the Counts of Gröningen , Stuttgart 1829, p. 5f.
  3. ↑ See commentary under Regesta Imperii Online RI III, 5.2 n.1078
  4. ↑ Source: Regesta Imperii Online RI III, 5.2 n.1078 .
  5. ^ Ludwig Heyd: History of the Counts of Gröningen , Stuttgart 1829, pp. 5-14.
  6. ↑ Source: Regesta Imperii Online RI III, 2,3 n.179 .
personal data
SURNAME Werner II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Maden ( Hessengau ) and in Neckargau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1020
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1053