Werner von Walbeck

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Werner von Walbeck (* around 980/85; † November 11, 1014 in Allerstedt ) was Count of Walbeck and from 1003 to 1009 Margrave of the Nordmark .

He was the eldest son of Count Lothar der Nordmark and Godila von Rothenburg (daughter of Count Werner I).

Although Werner was not of age when his father died, he followed as margrave, count in Derlingau and Vogt of the Walbeck monastery. His mother managed to keep her husband's margraviate her son by paying 200 marks in silver. Werner did not understand how to maintain the good relationship between his father and Heinrich II .

He was engaged to Liudgard, the daughter of Margrave Ekkehard I of Meissen . When he refused his daughter, he kidnapped her in 998 from the Quedlinburg Abbey . At the insistence of the bride's father, however, he had to give them back, which led to bitter enmity. The wedding did not take place until after Ekkehard's death in 1002. Werner then stood in opposition to Emperor Heinrich II, whose family, the Ottonians , also included the abbess of the monastery in Quedlinburg, Mathilde . Mathilde's judgment had to submit to Werner because of the bride robbery.

Like his father, he exhausted himself to a large extent in devastating and senseless feuds , where it came to property and succession issues in the North Mark, and was particularly against the brothers-in-law in Meißen and the Margrave Dedo I of Wettin -Merseburg.

In the year 1005, in the Peace of Werben (first mentioned as "Castrum Wirbeni") , he forced the turning point to recognize German rule.

June 1009 Dedo I sued him at the king and tried to deprive him of office and dignity. On November 13, 1009 he murdered Dedo I after he had cremated his Wolmirstedt castle . Heinrich took the opportunity to deny him both the margraviate of Nordmark and the fiefdoms that belonged to it at the Hoftag zu Pöhlde . Dedos I brother Friedrich I von Wettin -Eilenburg received the county in northern Hassegau; his son Dietrich I. the fiefdom, including the keeper Zörbig .

Liutgard died in 1012. A year later he was suspected of treasonous relations with the Polish king and Bohemian Duke Boleslaus I against the emperor. When he did not comply with the emperor's request to appear before him, he fell for the eight , from which he broke with the use of money and allod . In 1014, as he had done in Quedlinburg, he tried to kidnap a bride to force her into marriage, this time Reinhilde, probably a daughter of Duke of Saxony Hermann Billung , from Beichlingen Castle . His cousin Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg describes the events in his chronicle. Werner von Walbeck sustained a serious wound during the fighting as part of this adventurous undertaking, to which he succumbed shortly afterwards at Allerstedt Castle , after the emperor's emissaries in Wiehe had arrested him to take him to the imperial court. Thietmar had him buried in the Walbeck collegiate church .

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SURNAME Werner von Walbeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Walbeck and Margrave of the Nordmark
DATE OF BIRTH around 980
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1014
Place of death Allerstedt