Herman II, duke of Swabia

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HERMANN (-2/3 May 1003).

• The Annales Einsidlenses record the death in 997 of "Chuonradus dux" and the succession of "Herimannus filius eius in ducatum"[123]. The Annalista Saxo (apparently incorrectly) records "Herimannum ducem" as son of "Udonis ducis, qui aput Calabriam cum multis occubuit, quando imperator Otto secundus contra Sarracenos pugnavit"[124]. The confusion may be due to Thietmar describing Duke Hermann as "matris meæ avunculi filius"[125], without specifying which "avunculus" to whom this refers.
• He was installed in 997 as HERMANN II Duke of Swabia. A majority of south-western magnates supported Duke Hermann's candidacy for the imperial throne in 1002 after the death of Emperor Otto III, but acknowledged the accession of Heinrich Duke of Bavaria as king of Germany in Oct 1002[126].
• The necrology of Fulda records the death "1003 IV Non Mai" of "Herman dux"[127].

married ([986]%29 as her second husband, GERBERGA of Burgundy, widow of HERMANN Graf von Werl, daughter of CONRAD I "le Pacifique" King of Burgundy [Welf] & his second wife Mathilde de France [Carolingian] (-7 Jul 1018).

• Herimannus names "filiam Counradi regis Burgundiæ, Gerbirgam" as wife of "Herimannus dux"[128]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Rodulfum II et sororem suam Gepam matrem imperatricis Gisile" as children of "Conradus rex Burgundie" and his wife Mathilde[129].
• Wipo names "Herimannus dux Alamanniæ [et] Kerbirga filia Chuonradi regis de Burgundia" as the parents of "regis coniunx Gisela"[130].
• "Otto…Romanorum imperator augustus" donated property "in villa Stohchusen in pago Locdorp ac comitatu Herimanni comitis" to Kloster Meschede by charter dated 29 Sep 997 by request of "Gerbirge comitisse"[131].
• The necrology of Marchtalen records the death "Non Jul" of "Gerbirc ducissa"[132].
• No direct record of her first marriage has so far been identified. However, "Otto tercius…Romanorum imperator augustus" granted privileges to Kloster Oedingen founded by "matrona Gerberga…in comitatu Herimanni eius filii" to the monks of the Marienkapelle at Aachen by charter dated 18 May 1000[133], and Thietmar names "Count Hermann son of Gerberga" when recording his dispute with Dietrich Bishop of Münster in 1016[134]. These two references relate to Hermann [II] Graf von Werl. In addition, "Rodulfus et Bernhardus nati in…Werla" are named as brothers of Empress Gisela in the Annalista Saxo, although not specifying that they were her uterine brothers[135].

Duke Hermann II & his wife had five children:

1. MATHILDE ([988]-20 Jul [1031/32]), bur Worms Cathedral).
2. GISELA (11 Nov 990[144]-Goslar 16 Feb 1043, bur Speyer Cathedral).
3. BERCHTOLD (early 992-early 993, bur Marchtal).
4. BEATRIX (-23 Feb after 1025).
5. HERMANN (before Oct 995-1 Apr 1012).

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Wikipedia:

Hermann II. († 4. Mai 1003) aus der Familie der Konradiner war seit 997 Herzog von Schwaben als Sohn und Nachfolger Konrads I.

Hermann war wohl ein Sohn Herzog Konrads und führte wie dieser den Titel eines Herzogs im Elsass. Er zählte nicht zum engeren Umfeld des Herrschers Otto III. Doch begleitete er Otto auf dessen zweitem Italienzug 997. Nach dem Tod Kaiser Ottos III. 1002 kämpfte Hermann neben dem Bayernherzog Heinrich, dem Sohn Heinrich des Zänkers, und Ekkehard von Meißen um die Königsnachfolge. Die Mehrzahl der Großen, darunter auch der einflussreiche Erzbischof Heribert von Köln, hatte beim Begräbnis Ottos III. in Aachen Herzog Hermann II. von Schwaben bevorzugt. Ihn hätten sie geschätzt, da er die Eigenschaften der Milde besessen habe.[1] Als weitere Eigenschaften des Thronkandidaten Hermann von Schwaben stellt Thietmar von Merseburg seine Demut und seine Gottesfurcht heraus.[2] Bei seinen Aktivitäten um die Königswürde versuchte Hermann Heinrich den Rheinübergang nach Mainz zu versperren, was jedoch misslang. Heinrich konnte sich letztendlich als Nachfolger Ottos III. durchsetzen. Den Erfolg seines überlegenen Konkurrenten akzeptierte Hermann zunächst nicht, so dass es zu kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen (u. a. in Straßburg) kam. Am 1. Oktober 1002 unterwarf er sich jedoch zu Bruchsal. Als er wenig später starb, übernahm der neue König Heinrich II. für Hermanns Sohn und Nachfolger Hermann III. die Vormundschaft.

Ehe und Nachkommen

Hermann II. war seit etwa 986 mit Gerberga von Burgund († 7. Juli 1019), der Tochter Konrads III. des Friedfertigen (Pacificus), Herzog von Burgund (Welfen), und Witwe von Graf Hermann I. von Werl, verheiratet, mit der er fünf Kinder hatte:

   * Mathilde (* wohl 988; † 29. Juli 1031/1032), begraben im Dom zu Worms

   * Gisela († 15. Februar 1043)

   * Berchtold (* Anfang 992; † Anfang 993), getauft in Einsiedeln 992, begraben in Marchtal

   * (umstritten) Beatrix († 23. Februar nach 1025)

   * Hermann III. († 1012) 1003, Herzog von Schwaben

Quellen

   * Thietmar von Merseburg: Chronik (= Ausgewählte Quellen zur Deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe, Bd. 9), Neu übertragen und erläutert von Werner Trillmich, Darmstadt 1957 (mehrere Neuauflagen).

Literatur

   * Hagen Keller: Schwäbische Herzöge als Thronbewerber: Hermann II. (1002), Rudolf von Rheinfelden (1077), Friedrich von Staufen (1125). Zur Entwicklung von Reichsidee und Fürstenverantwortung, Wahlverständnis und Wahlverfahren im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 131, 1983, S. 123–162.

   * Ludger Körntgen: Inprimis Herimanni ducis assensu. Zur Funktion von D. H.II. 34 im Konflikt zwischen Heinrich II. und Hermann von Schwaben, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien, Bd. 34 (2000) S. 159–185

   * Helmut Maurer: Der Herzog von Schwaben. Grundlagen, Wirkungen und Wesen seiner Herrschaft in ottonischer, salischer und staufischer Zeit. Sigmaringen 1978, ISBN 3-7995-7007-1.

   * Otto Gerhard Oexle: Hermann II. (Schwaben). In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, S. 641 f.

Anmerkungen

  1. ↑ Thietmar, V 3.

  2. ↑ Thietmar, V 3.

Herman II, Duke of Swabia

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Herman II (died 4 May 1003) was the Conradine duke of Swabia from 997 to his death, as the son of and successor Conrad I.

Herman opposed the election of Henry III, Duke of Bavaria, as king of Germany because he himself had been a contender. Henry separated Alsace from Swabia and took control of the duchy, a situation which continued through the reign of Herman's son and successor, Herman III.

He married Gerberga of Burgundy, and they had a daughter named Gisela who was the wife of Emperor Conrad II.

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• http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00120357&tree=LEO

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Hermann is the first representative of the house Werl, to which some secured data are available. It is still unclear whether Hermann located near Meschede in the period around 913 was his grandfather and a 947 and 955 named Heinrich his father. Possibly a Bernhard was with his right to the grave on Hellweg and in North Westphalia his brother.

But also for Hermann I. the tradition is sparse. Already in his time, the counts of Werl may have been the bailiffs of the monastery of Werden . Like his predecessors he was Vogt of the monastery Meschede . Hermann also had his seat at Werl. There is only one document in which he finds direct mention. It is a deed of Otto II of March 25, 978. In the Regesta imperii states: Otto gives at the request of his wife Theophanu the Abbess Thiezswid von Meschede the farm Völlinghausen in Gau Engern in the county Hermanns including accessories (nos whether dilectissimae contectalis nostrae Theuphanu rogatum atque per eius precativam exhortationem venerandae probitatis abbatissae Thiezsuuid nominatę quandam curtem Folkgeldinghuson nuncupatum in pago Angeron in comitatu Heremanni comitis sitam donasse in proprium ...) [1]

He was partisan of the Emperor. The donation of the court in Völlinghausen to the Werler house monastery would have been a reward for Hermann's support in the victory over the Duke of Bavaria, the Bavarian.

He was probably present at the Hoftag in Dortmund 978, where it had come between Emperor Otto II and his mother Adelheid to the conflict, during which Adelheid left the imperial court and to the court of her brother Konrad III. went from Burgundy. At about this time Hermann came into contact with the Burgundian court. He may have accompanied the Emperor's mother there on imperial commission. This relationship led around 978/79 to marry a daughter of the Burgundian king named Gerberga. However, the marriage is secured only by some later indirect sources, in particular the Quedlinburg annals . The somewhat later writing Annalista Saxo has the text slightly later falsifying and thus rendered meaningful. Today's research has no doubt about the marriage between Hermann and Gerberga.

Through marriage, Hermann Schwager of Henry the Brawler and entered into family relations with the Ottonian house. From the marriage emerged Hermann II , Bernhard von Werl and Rudolf von Werl . A daughter Hitda or Ida later became abbess of Stift Meschede. Perhaps this was the one that made the pen valuable gifts, including the Hitda Codex , when she took office.

Hermann is equated with that of Count Hermann, who was in Italy in 983 with Otto II. After his death, he worked as an intermediary. Here it was possible to settle the dispute within the imperial family with Heinrich the Zänkerer. The identity of Hermann with the count of the same name speaks, among other things, that the imperial court was in August 985 in Soest , ie near Werl. From there, the court moved to Wiedenbrück , where Otto III. At the instigation of the Empress Dowager Theophanu the monastery Meschede confirmed the previous privileges. This can be interpreted as thanks for Hermann's achievements in imperial service. Because Hermann was not mentioned by name in the corresponding document as Vogt and precaution was taken for a Vogtswahl, it is assumed that Hermann has died shortly before. After the death of Hermann Gerberga married no later than 988 Hermann II of Swabia .