Ernest II, Duke of Swabia
Ernst II (c. 1010; † August 17, 1030 at Falkenstein Castle on the Baar in the Black Forest ) from the Babenberg family was from 1015 to 1030 Duke of Swabia.
Life
Ernst was the elder son of Duke Ernest I and Gisela of Swabia, the future Empress. About his maternal grandmother he was a great-grandson of the Burgundian king Konrad. Ernst inherited the Duchy of Swabia after the fatal hunting accident of his father in 1015 and was during his minority under the tutelage of his mother. His mother married late in 1016 or early 1017 Conrad the Elder, from which it in October of the year 1017 another son, Henry got. Konrad was, as with the Ottonian ruler Henry II became extinct the Saxony House in 1024, elected as the new king and was named Konrad II In contrast to his younger brother, Ernst Hermann is probably not grown up in the area and at the court of Conrad II. The guardianship Ernst II went to his uncle Poppo von Babenberg, the Archbishop of Trier, over.
During the Königsumrittes Conrad II, Ernst was a member of the opposition. The rebellion failed, however, Ernst II. In February, as Conrad II gathered his army in Augsburg, the Queen Gisela mediated reconciliation between Ernst and Conrad. Apparently, participation in Conrad's Italian expedition condition for reconciliation. After 15 September 1026 Conrad stepson Ernst, who received the imperial abbey of Kempten as a fief, returned with the mission of preserving the peace in the Swabian duchy. But Ernst allied with the rebels and invaded Alsace. After Conrad's return Ernst had to go on a diet to Ulm. Ernst was deposed as Duke of Swabia and imprisoned in the castle Giebichenstein. In 1028 he was pardoned and restored to his duchy. Well as consideration he had on parts of his heritage, including probably do without White Castle in the Bavarian Nordgau. When Ernst However, on March 29, 1030 refused on the Ingelheimer Osterhoftag, to bind themselves by oath against the vassals, and friend Count Werner of Kyburg, let Konrad as hostis publicus make him imperatoris the process and depose him by Prince saying. Even his mother Gisela now dropped it. In 1030 Ernst II was killed with his friend Werner of Kyburg at Falkenstein Castle in the Black Forest in the fight against the people of the Bishop of Constance. Its downfall was compared by Konrad at the end of a rabid dog.
He found his final resting place in the Constance Marie Church. The St. Gallen obituary calls him the day he died " Duke and ornament of the Alemanni " ( dux et decus Alamanorum ).
The fall of the Duke Ernst has led to a weakening of the Swabian duke violence and prepared the resolution of the duchy. The Burgundian inheritance went as planned to Henry. The Duchy he gave to Ernst's younger brother Hermann, who, since he was still a minor, the care of the Bishop of Constance Warmann was entrusted. Hermann died eight years later, whereupon the emperor moved the Duchy.
Afterlife
Sage and poetic design in the epic have his story with the rebellious prince Liudolf, who had 952/954 dared to revolt against his father, Otto I, interwoven. The resistance of Duke Ernst II was received in 1180 in the minstrel seal of Duke Ernst. Historically correct in this seal, however, only the names and the opposition to the emperor. Arrangements of the theme there is by Ludwig Uhland (1817 ). Peter Hacks handle the substance in 1957 for his drama The chapbook by Duke Ernst or the hero and his entourage on also.
Swell
- Wipo: deeds of Emperor Konrad II In: Werner Trillmich / Rudolf Buchner ( eds.), Sources of the 9th and 11th centuries, the history of the Hamburg Church and the Empire ( FSGA 11), Darmstadt 1961 and passim, p 505 -613.