Wilhelminer
The Wilhelminers were a Bavarian aristocratic family mainly from the 9th century and belonged to the Bavarian noble family Graman. The Wilhelminers ruled the Pannonian Mark (former Avar Mark ) of the Bavarian Marcha orientalis until 871.
Wilhelm I . became the successor of his relative Graman as Count des Traungaus . In 788, Graman and Count Otachar defeated the Avars at Ybbsfeld as a royal messenger . They owe their rise to the brothers Wilhelm and Engelschalk I , the sons of the progenitor Wilhelm I.
After the death of the brothers in the struggle against the Moravian Empire (871) and the coming generation came of age, a battle broke out between the Wilhelminians and the Aribones for possession of the Mark (882-884), in which the Wilhelminians Arnulf of Carinthia and Svatopluk I. , the ruler of the Moravian Empire, on their side. Despite this support , when Arnulf became king in 887 , his opponent Aribo had consolidated his power to such an extent that the new king confirmed him and dropped Engelschalk II .
Before 893, Engelschalk kidnapped Arnulf's illegitimate daughter Ellinrat (and presumably also married her) in order to emphasize his demands, but then had to flee to Moravia. Although he was able to reconcile himself with Arnulf, a trial against Engelschalk took place in Regensburg in 893 - which was initiated by the Bavarian nobility to prevent Engelschalk from being particularly positioned and of which Arnulf had no knowledge - in which he was convicted and blinded has been.
The Wilhelminers of the 10th century are now referred to as "Younger Wilhelminers" and can be found in Salzburggau and Carantania during this time . However, the largest part of their counties and manors was in the hands of miscarried families like the Luitpoldingern and Sieghardingern . The Salzburggau line continued in the lines of the Counts of Raschenberg-Reichenhall and the Counts of Plain and Hardegg and thus continued to have a political effect in the eastern brand area until the 13th century.
literature
- Timothy Reuter : Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800-1056 . New York: Longman, 1991, ISBN 0-582-49034-0 .
- Simon MacLean: Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire . Cambridge University Press: 2003.
- Timothy Reuter (translator): The Annals of Fulda . (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-7190-3458-2 .
Web links
- Michael Mitterauer : The oldest Wilhelminers. (including family tables up to Wilhelm I.)
- Collection of material on the younger Wilhelminians