Casimir I, Duke of Pomerania
Casimir I, also Casimir I., ( * after 1130, .. † Nov / Dec 1180 ) was a Duke of Pomerania from the grasping house.
Life
Casimir was a son of Duke Wartislaw I.. Upon the death of his uncle he Ratibor I in the year 1155/56 shared with his older brother Bogislaw I. dominion.
After the defeat against troops of Henry the Lion at the Battle of Verchen 1164 he was for his part Duchy (present-day Western Pomerania) whose vassal. Casimir received a third of the country under Danish sovereignty Wolgast. In 1168 he took with Bogislaw I. on behalf of Henry at the conquest of Rügen by the Danes in part. During these years, he must have acquired Circipania.
Kasimir Heinrich held the loyalty and undertook from 1178 to 1180 at the behest of its three campaigns in the Lausitz and the country Jiiterbog that were doing devastated. In the possessions of the monastery Nienburg in Unterspreewald example, existed after the invasion of Pomerania was once 50 villages only seven villages. Jiiterbog was captured and cremated. North of Jiiterbog that is under construction Kloster Zinna was destroyed and killed the abbot. Probably askanisches area was also been devastated, because even in late autumn 1180 was the backlash and the Brandenburg Margrave Otto I of Brandenburg besieged the castle Demmin. Casimir I probably fell in these battles. His death is also another source for November / December 1180 testifies.
Kazimir was the founder of the pins Broda ( 1170 ) and Belbuck (before 1180), had much in the founding of the monastery Dargun ( 1172/74 ) and granted 1176/80 by the threaded Kammin Pomeranian diocese wide range of privileges.
Family
Casimir I was married, the name of his wife is unknown.
In the older Genealogy Odolaw is cited as a son of Casimir I. This is based on a document from 1187, which is called a Odolavus de Livticia, filus Kazimari ( Odolaw of Livticia, son of Casimir ). According to the judgment of the historian Martin Wehrmann (1861-1937), however, is to assume that this Odolaw, the otherwise nothing is known of the son of another Casimir was.