Widekind I. (Schwalenberg)

Wide child (also: Wedekind or Wittekind ) I of Schwalenberg († 11. June 1136 / 1137 ; also called Widukind) was from 1127 Count of Schwalenberg . He is the progenitor of the Counts and Princes of Waldeck , as his great-grandson Adolf I founded the Waldeck family .

family

Widekind came from the influential family of the Counts von Schwalenberg , who first appeared in 1031 with a Count Widekind in Wetigau as a fiefdom of the Billunger family , without an exact genealogical sequence back to Duke Widukind being verifiable. His father was Heinrich or Hermann I von Schwalenberg. His brother was Count Volkwin I († approx. 1110). The Paderborn bishop Bernhard I von Oesede (1127–1160) was probably his cousin or brother-in-law. The family seat of the Counts of Wetigau was Oldenburg Castle near Marienmünster .

Life

Widekind is named in a document that can be dated between 1115 and 1119 as the court lord in Linden im Marstemgau . During this time he took part in the presence of witnesses, including Duke Lothar III. , Donations to the diocese Minden before that outworks and proper hearing related to the no longer detectable villages Liusen, Batmere and Wall Thorpe. However, the Counts of Schwalenberg had had jurisdiction in the place since 954.

Widekind was Count in Tilithigau (Pyrmont-Sternberg area), Wetigau (Schwalenberg area) and Marstemgau (Hanover area) and Vogt von Barsinghausen . He gave up Marstemgau in 1124 in favor of the important Stiftsvogtei Paderborn. He owned many fiefdoms, allodies and countial rights in these Gauen, in the Sauerland and in the Alme and Diemel area and was feudal lord of the lords of Homburg and Gehrden . He was also Vogt of the Abdinghof , Möllenbeck , Herford and Korbach monasteries and (1116) Vice-Governor of Corvey among the Counts of Northeim . The bailiwicks in particular formed the basis of the territorialization of the rule of his house. His wife brought the old Itterburg at Thalitter's dowry into the marriage. As a result, Widukind inherited count rights in Ittergau and the bailiwick over the Busdorf Abbey in Paderborn founded by Bishop Meinwerk in 1036 from his father-in-law . As Vogt, he was involved in many disputes with clergymen, for whom his administration was too one-sidedly aimed at expanding his own power.

In 1123 he was mentioned as High Bailiff of Paderborn, as the successor to the Counts of Arnsberg-Werl , and thus exercised high jurisdiction on behalf of the bishop. This made him the most powerful count in the sphere of influence of the Paderborn bishop. Since he had no imperial fiefdom, he was not part of the imperial princes at the time .

Widekind was a loyal follower of Duke (from 1125 king) Lothar von Sachsen and was first named Count von Schwalenberg in 1127.

On the advice of Bishop Bernhard I, he and his wife founded the Marienmünster Abbey in the immediate vicinity of the Oldenburg as an atonement and family monastery . On August 15, 1128, Bishop Bernhard I consecrated the monastery and church.

Widekind was mentioned for the last time in 1136 at the Diet of Würzburg. He moved to Italy with Emperor Lothar and probably died there.

Marriage and offspring

He married Lutrud von Itter († after March 22, 1149), daughter of Volkmar von Itter (* around 1070 in Schwalenberg) and Gepa von Itter († 1123), a great-granddaughter of Duke Hermann Billung and Hildegard, a daughter of Emperor Otto Great . The origin of Gepa von Itters is controversial, as is the existence of Hildegard as the wife of Hermann Billung.

You had u. a. the following children and grandchildren:
- Volkwin II. (Schwalenberg) , Count von Schwalenberg, from 1180 also Count von Waldeck
  - Wittekind III. (Waldeck and Schwalenberg) , † 1189 on a crusade
  - Hermann I. (Schwalenberg) , † 1223
  - Heinrich I (Waldeck and Schwalenberg) ; † before September 1214; ⚭ Ezeke von Dassel († July 25, 1220)
- Wittekind II. Von Schwalenberg , Count of Pyrmont , † approx. 1189
  - Wittekind IV.
- Jutta von Schwalenberg; ⚭ 1.) Count Albrecht I of Everstein ; ⚭ 2.) Count Ludwig von Lohra
- Lutrud von Schwalenberg ⚭ Everin or Everwein or Everwin (possibly Count von Rheda or Herr von Freckenhorst , Vogt von Freckenhorst)
  - Widukind from Rheda
  - Gertrud, Abbess of Freckenhorst

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Helmut Zimmermann : Lichtenbergplatz , in: Die Strasseennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 160
↑ Legation Council of Alten a. D .: About a note in the Chronicon pictauratum des Botho, concerning the city of Hanover, with special reference to the Counts of Schwalenberg in: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Niedersachsen , Hanover, 1860

personal data
SURNAME	Widekind I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Widukind; Widekind I. von Schwalenberg; Wittekind; Wedekind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Schwalenberg and progenitor of the Princes of Waldeck
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	1136 or 1137

[Straßennamen-1] Helmut Zimmermann : Lichtenbergplatz , in: Die Strasseennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 160

[2] Legation Council of Alten a. D .: About a note in the Chronicon pictauratum des Botho, concerning the city of Hanover, with special reference to the Counts of Schwalenberg in: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Niedersachsen , Hanover, 1860