County Walbeck is a medieval county with a center in Walbeck , northeast of Helmstedt (now part of the city of Ebisfelde-Weferlingen ) in Saxony-Anhalt . The estates of Counts Walbeck were under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Halberstad, but after the establishment of the Magdeburg Archbishopric, they passed into the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Magdeburg.
Establishing exactly what lands belonged to Walbek County is quite difficult. The same lands could be in co-ownership of different dynasties, and we don’t know the details to whom and when, which possessions were transferred. One of the sources of information about the possessions of the counts of Walbeck is the Chronicle of Titmar of Merseburg , the son and nephew of the counts of Walbeck. At different times, the counts of Walbeck owned the following territories: Valbeck itself, Weferlingen Castle and the surrounding territories, including Zistedt , Ribensdorf, Klintse, Etheringen , Belsdorf , Bensdorf, Eikkendorf , Hödingen , Eshenrode , Seggerde and Doeren ; part of Wolmirstedt [1] , also Nordgermersleben [2] and Tundersleben, Zantersleben ( Gross-Zantersleben ) and Gutenswegen [3] , Rotmersleben [4] and Arneburg .
The first known Count of Valbec was Lothar I. After the death of Count Walbeck Lothar II, the county was divided between his two sons, and since then has been in joint control of their descendants. After the suppression of the youngest branch of the counts of Walbeck, the county of Walbeck passed to the counts of Pöltskau .
Content
- 1 List of Counts Walbeck
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 See also
List of Valbeck graphs
| ? - 929 | Lothar I (d. 929) | ||
| 929 - 964 | Lothar II (d. 964) | ||
| 964 - 1003 | Lothar III (d. 1003) | 964 - 991 | Siegfried (d. 991) |
| 1003 - 1014 | Werner (d. 1014) | 991 - after 1014 | Henry (d. After 1014) |
| 1014 - after 1018 | Berthold (d. After 1018) | ⁞ | |
⁞ | Conrad (d. 1073) | ||
| Siegfried II [5] (pack 1069, 1083) | |||
Notes
- ↑ Wolmirstedt was in the common possession of the family, Titmar calls it the city of his uncle Lothar III and ours (Titmar and his brothers). In 1002, Wolmirstedt was captured and plundered by opponents of Count Lothar III, including Count Dady I von Wettin . In 1012, Liutgard, the wife of Count Werner , died in it. Later, in the mid-12th century, it was owned by Albrecht the Bear , probably as part of the Northern Mark . Apparently, at some point in time, the counts of Walbeck lost control of Wolmirstedt, and he transferred to the counts of Haldensleben or the counts of Stade, who at various times owned the Northern mark.
- ↑ In Germersleben, in 997, Kunigunda, the wife of Count Siegfried I and the mother of Titmar , died.
- ↑ Zantersleben and Gutenswegen are connected with the events of 941-2, when Lothar II von Walbeck participated in the unsuccessful attempt on Otto I. Lothar II escaped with temporary confiscation of land and annual arrest. After this, the lands were returned to him, but the details described by Titmar are not quite clear and the interpretations vary. According to the traditional version, Otton I added estates to Zantersleben and Gutenswegen to the Lothar possessions and gifted him with money. After analyzing the documents on the counts of Walbeck and the message of Titmar, Karl Leiser suggested that Otton I took them from Lothar, and Lothar paid a fine in addition.
- ↑ Rotmersleben Titmar calls his estate, probably he got it after his mother. As the third son, he inherited half of her property.
- ↑ The origin of Siegfried II and his affiliation with the older branch of the counts Walbeck is a moot point. He could be a descendant of Heinrich von Walbeck
Literature
- Titmar of Merseburg . Chronicle / Per. with lat. I.V.Dyakonova. - 2nd edition, revised. - M .: SPSL - “Russian Panorama”, 2009. - 254 p. - (MEDIÆVALIA: medieval literary monuments and sources). - 1,500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-93165-222-1 .
- Saxon Annalist . Chronicle / Translation from Lat. and comm. I.V. Dyakonova; foreword I.A. Nastenko. - M .: “SPSL” - “Russian Panorama”, 2012. - 712 p. - (MEDIÆVALIA: medieval literary monuments and sources). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-93165-170-5 .
- Leyser, Karl. Rule and conflict in an early medieval society: Ottonian Saxony. - Indiana University Press, 1979.
See also
Valbek House