Enno Edzardisna

Enno Edzardisna (also known as ''Enno

Cirksena The House of Cirksena () was the name of the ruling family of Ostfriesland. They descended from a line of East Frisian chieftains from Greetsiel. East Frisia In 1439, in the wake of clashes between different lines of chieftains, the town of Em ...

'', ''Enno Attena'' and rarely ''Enno Syardsna''; – ) was a

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, Berum and Pilsum in

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. He was the son of the chieftain Edzard II of Appingen-

and his wife Doda

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. Enno was a pioneer of the claim of the house

to the rule over all of

, which his son finally Ulrich I formally achieved when he was made an Imperial Count in 1464. Enno's first wife is not documented. He married his second wife Gela Syardsna of Manslagt (d. 1455), a daughter of the chieftain Affo Beninga of Pilsum. After Gela's only son from her first marriage, the chief Liudward

("Syrtza") of Berum had died without an heir in the middle 1430s, Gela and her niece Frauwa Cirksena ("Sirtzena") were the only heirs of the Cirksena family in Berum. Enno seized the opportunity. His son Edzard from his first marriage, married Frauwa Cirksena and Enno and Edzard adopted the Cirksena family name and

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, to emphasize the succession. From the first marriage, Enno had one son and one daughter: * Edzard (died in 1441 of the

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) : married firstly Moeder Ennosna (d. 1438) : married secondly Frauwa Cirksena ("Sirtzena") of Berum * Doda, (born: ; died after 1470) : married Redward of Westerhusen From his second marriage, Enno had five children: * Ulrich I : married firstly to Foelke of Esens (d. 1452) : married secondly in 1455 with

Theda Ukena Theda Ukena (1432 in Oldersum – 16 November 1494 in Greetsiel) was from 1466 to about 1480 regent of the County of East Frisia. Theda was the granddaughter and heiress of the chief Focko Ukena (died 1436) and was born in 1432 in Oldersum ...

, the daughter of

Uko Fockena Uko Fockena (also known as: "Uko of Oldersum"; , Oldersum (uncertain) – 13 June 1432 near Suurhusen) was an East Frisian chieftain of Moormerland and Emsigerland. Life Uko was one of the sons of the East Frisian chieftain Focko Ukena ( ...

* Tiadeke (born: 1438, died after 1470) * Adda (died ) : married to Lütet Manninga of

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(d. 1450) * Frouwa : first marriage to Sibet of

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(d. 1433) : second marriage to Eppo Gockinga of Zuidbroek (died after 1444) * Ocka (?) East Frisian chieftains 14th-century German nobility 15th-century German nobility House of Cirksena 1380s births 1450s deaths {{Germany-noble-stub