Schwabengau

The Schwabengau or Suebengau was a medieval Gaugrafschaft in present-day Saxony- Anhalt. It extended east of Quedlinburg to the Saale, was so separately from the southwest German duchy of Swabia. The name of Suevi was referring to in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 38, to all elb and East Germanic tribes south of the Mare Suebicum ( = the Baltic Sea).

In this Schwabengau I. Swabian and Franconian settlers were in the year 569 by King Siegbert settled, or other belief, many remained in the original settlement area and held up against the Saxons, who were returning from a 573 taken together with the Lombards to Italy.

Eike von Repgows report of Swabia am Harz explains the origin of the lords in the land of Saxony as follows: Mr von Anhalt, Brandenburg, of Orlamünde, Margrave of Meissen, Count von Landsberg, Hakeborn of Gneiz of Müchlen of Dröbel of Sindelsdorf from Schneidlingen, Vogt Albrecht of Spandau, Schrapen of Gersleben, Anno of Jerdingsdorf, Hermann von Mehringen, Winni gene and Seedorf are all Swabia. There follow more Swabia and Franconia, but all the free men and aldermen in Saxony resident are born Saxony.

Count in Schwabengau were:

• Christian ( † 950 ), Count of Schwabengau and Gau Serimunt, from the family of Bill Unger, father of Archbishop Gero of Cologne ( 967-976 ); ∞ Hidda, sister of the Margrave Gero
• Thietmar I. ( † after 979), whose son, Margrave of the Nordmark 965-979, Count of Schwabengau 944-978, Count of Gau Serimunt, Margrave of Merseburg and Meissen; ∞ Suanehild, daughter of Duke Hermann Billung of Saxony ( † 1014)
• Rikdag, † 985, Markgraf (probably Margrave of Meissen ), Margrave of Merseburg and Zeitz, 985 Count in Schwabengau, Margrave in Gau Gau Chutizi and Dalaminze
• Karl, † 1014, his son, 992 Count in Schwabengau, 993-1010
• Hodo, Count of Schwabengau 974-993
• Gero, Count of Schwabengau 1010-1015
• Thietmar II, Count of Schwabengau 1015-1030
• ESIKO Count of Ballenstedt, Count of Schwabengau and Serimunt Gau, † probably 1059/1060 ( Ascanians ); ∞ Mathilde, probably 988 *, † July 29, 1031 / ​​1032 daughter of Duke Hermann II of Swabia, buried in the cathedral of Worms, widow of Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia, † 1011 ( Salian ) and Frederick II, Duke of upper Lorraine, † 1026, from the family of Wigeriche
• Adalbert, Count of Schwabengau 1063

The Schwabengau was the heartland of Ascanians since ESIKO and was together with the adjacent, situated between the rivers Saale, the Elbe and Mulde Gau Serimunt to the nucleus of the later Duchy of Anhalt.

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• Gau (Saxony- Anhalt)
• Geography (Anhalt)