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". Annales Stadenses describe that Ida is a noblewoman of Swabian birth and that Ida's father is brother of Emperor Henry III and Ida's mother is 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.

Legacy

Elimar is the patrilineal ancestor of the House of Oldenburg, which has ruled as monarchs of Denmark continuously since 1448, and also as counts, dukes, kings, or emperors of Norway, Sweden, Russia, Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lauenburg, and Greece.

Present-day patrilineal descendants of Elimar include:

Margrethe II of Denmark,
Harald V of Norway,
Constantine II of Greece,
Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia,
Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms, and
Christopher, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, who is Elimar's current senior male-line descendant.[4]

References

Ǿstergård 2015, p. 461.
Donald C. Jackman, Canes palatini: Dynastic Transplantation and the Cult of St Simeon, p. 8
The Athenæum (1894), p. 494
Michel Huberty, L'Allemagne dynastique, Volume 7, Giraud, 1994, ISBN 2-901138-07-1, ISBN 978-2-901138-07-5

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)

Annales Stadenses

Regnal titles
Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg House of Oldenburg
New title	Count of Oldenburg 1091–1108	Succeeded by Elimar II

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[FOOTNOTEǾstergård2015461-1] 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

[4] Michel Huberty, L'Allemagne dynastique, Volume 7, Giraud, 1994, ISBN 2-901138-07-1, ISBN 978-2-901138-07-5