Wetigau

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Wetigau
Historical center Schwalenberg
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Gau in Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Wetigau (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Approximate location of the medieval district in East Westphalia-Lippe, red: Westphalian district, black: originally engraved district, blue: East Westphalian district.
Pagus Hwetigo in the map "TABULA ANGARIAE IN DIOECESI PATERBORNENSI " by Christian Ulrich Grupen , 1740
The clearly delimited medieval districts of the Duchy of Saxony around 1000 from Gustav Droysen's general historical hand atlas from 1886.

The Wetigau was a medieval district in the Schwalenberg area in today's Lippe and Höxter districts and is considered the home of the Billungers .

Demarcation

At different times the delimitation of the medieval districts was given differently, at times even attempts were made to work out fixed boundaries. Today, the approximate location is given, since places belonging to a Gau are only rarely and selectively emerged from the sources .

The Wetigau bordered in the west on the Teutoburg Forest and the Eggegebirge , which were referred to as Osning in the Middle Ages , in the northwest on the Wesigau around the Werre , in the south on the Nethegau around the Nethe . In the east it did not reach the Weser , along which Tilithigau and Augau stretched from north to south .

Wetigau and the County Constitution

With regard to this topic, it must be taken into account that it is controversial whether the Franconian county constitution in Saxony, which was conquered by Charlemagne, was consistently introduced with the area according to demarcated county districts, or until when it existed there and whether the counties corresponded to the scenic crooks. What is certain is that the counties were interspersed with immunity , palatinate , forest and allodial districts as well as brands in which the violence of the counts did not apply. Individual groups of people were also excluded.

If you consider the Wetigau as a county , the following counts can be found in it:

  • Reithard and Hermann, 889 counts in Wetigau, probably relatives of Ekbert, who is mentioned with them as count
  • Ekbert , 889 Graf im Wetigau next to Reithard and Hermann
  • Hermann Billung († 973), 936 princeps militiae , 940 Graf im Wetigau, since 953 Margrave and 953, 961 and 966 as deputy of King Otto I procurator regis in the Duchy of Saxony
  • Widekind, 1031 Graf im Wetigau
  • Hermann, Count im Wetigau in 1043, son of Widekind
  • Heinrich, Count im Wetigau in 1113, a son of Hermann, first mentioned in 1043 (with his brothers Bardo and Widekind), in 1102 as guardian of the Paderborn monastery and in 1113 as vice bailiff of the Corvey monastery, † shortly after 1113
  • Volkwin I († 1125), Heinrich's son
  • Wide child I of Schwalenberg (ersterwähnt maybe 1101, 1113 along with his father, † 1137), whose brother, who is from 1127 Count of Schwalenberg called

The Wetigau went up in the county of Schwalenberg .

literature

  • Gerd Althoff, Noble and royal families in the mirror of their memorial tradition, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Munich, 1984, pp. 65,68,71,204,390 (on Egbert)
  • Hermann Bannasch: The Diocese of Paderborn under the Bishops Rethar and Meinwerk, Altertumsverein, Paderborn 1972.
  • Alfred Bruns: County of Schwalenberg. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions. From the turn of the times to the end of the 2nd World War. 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-81302-5 .
  • Reinhard Wenskus, Saxon tribal nobility and Franconian imperial nobility, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1976, p. 246 (on Egbert)
  • Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen, Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte, Volume 1, Göttingen bey Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1825, pp. 221–233 (Diplomatically compiled family table of the oldest Counts of Schwalenberg and Waldeck.)
  • Gottholt Wagner: Comitate in the Diocese of Paderborn , WZ 103/104 1954, pp. 221–270.
  • Diana Zunker: Aristocracy in Westphalia: Structures and concepts of rule (1106–1235). Matthiesen-Verlag, Husum 2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See e.g. BW Schlesinger: Comments on the problem of the Westphalian counties and free counties. In: Ders .: Contributions to the German constitutional history of the Middle Ages 2 , 1963. Hermann Bannasch: The Diocese of Paderborn under the Bishops Rethar and Meinwerk, Paderborn 1972, p. 55 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 37.8 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 59.8"  E