Life
A Dietmar von Aist is mentioned by name from c 1139 onwards in contemporary records from Salzburg, Regensburg and Vienna. The name Aist probably refers to the River Aist, which in Austria feeds into the Danube below the Enns. The family von Aist is evidenced in Austria from about 1125, where today the ruins of the ancestral castle stand on the River Aist.
Whether the Freiherr (Baron) Dietmar von Aist mentioned in the records is really the same as the poet, is not completely certain on chronological grounds. It is definite however that a certain "Ditmarus de Agasta" mentioned in the records, who died in about 1171, was not the same as Dietmar von Aist.
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