Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg

Elimar I (1040-1112) was the first Count of Oldenburg and reigned from c. 1091 to 1108.[1]

Elimar married Rixa (also called Rikissa and Richenza), who according to the Annals of Stade was the daughter of Dedi or Adalger,[2] and according to the same source, her mother was Ida of Elthorp (Annales Stadenses record that "Rikencen, filie Ide de Elthrope" is wife of "comes Eilmari de Aldenburg". The Annales Stadenses state that Ida was a noblewoman of Swabian birth and that Ida's father was the brother of Emperor Henry III and Ida's mother was the sister of Pope Leo IX (whose secular name is Bruno).

The name of Elimar is found in a charter dating from 1108. His wife claimed that he was descended from Wittekind, a notable defender of the Saxons and the chief opponent of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars of 777 to 785, but there is no further evidence for this.[3]

Elimar was succeeded by his son Elimar II.

References
  1. Ǿstergård 2015, p. 461.
  2. Donald C. Jackman, Canes palatini: Dynastic Transplantation and the Cult of St Simeon, p. 8
  3. The Athenæum (1894), p. 494

Sources
  • Ǿstergård, Uffe (2015). "Nation-Building and Nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire". In Berger, Stefan; Miller, Alexei (eds.). Nationalizing Empires. Central European University Press. p. 461-510.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg
Regnal titles
New title Count of Oldenburg
1091–1108		 Succeeded by
Elimar II


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