Lothair Udo I (950 – 23 June 994),
Count of Stade, son of
Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade
Henry I the Bald (died 11 May 976) was the Counts of Stade, Count of Stade. He was the son of Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Swanhild of Saxony. Henry is recorded as a cousin of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, but their exact relationship remains a my ...
, and his wife Judith von der Wetterau, granddaughter of
Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine
Gebhard of Lahngau ( 860/868 – 22 June 910), of the Conradine dynasty, son of Odo (aka Udo, died 879), count of Lahngau, and Judith, was himself count of Wetterau (909–910) and Rheingau (897–906) and then duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
In ...
. Lothair is frequently confused with his nephew
Lothair Udo II, son of his brother Siegfried II, who was Margrave of Nordmark as Lothair Udo I.
The writings of
Thietmar of Merseburg describe the deaths of his three maternal uncles Henry, Udo
othair Udo Iand Siegfried, captured by pirates with Count Adalgar, and reported that Udo was killed in battle with the Vikings.
Warner, David. ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, 2001, p. 50
Lothair married an unknown daughter of Siegbert, Count of Liesgau, and had two children:
* Henry III von Stade, Canon at Hildesheim Cathedral
Hildesheim Cathedral (German: '), officially the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (German: ''Hohe Domkirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt'') or simply St. Mary's Cathedral (German: ''Mariendom''), is a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral in the city cent ...
, after 1002
* Udo von Stade (986-1040), Count of Liesgau and Rittegau, married to Bertrada of an unknown family. Their son Dietrich I von Kahleberg was killed in the Battle of Werben on 10 September 1056. Dietrich married Bertrada, daughter of Dirk III, Count of Holland
Dirk III (also called ''Dirik'' or ''Theodoric'') was the count with jurisdiction over what would become the county of Holland, often referred to in this period as "West Frisia", from 993 to 27 May 1039. Until 1005, this was under regency of his ...
.
References
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Sources
* Warner, David A., ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
* Reuter, Timothy, ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1036'', London and New York, 1992
* Bury, J. B. (editor), ''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, Germany and the Western Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1922
* Hucke, Richard G., ''Die Grafen von Stade 900-1144. Genealogie, politische Stellung, Comitat und Allodialbesitz der sächsischen Udonen''; Diss. Kiel, Stade mit umfassenden Nachweisen der Quellen und älteren Literatur, 1956
Counts of Stade
950 births
994 deaths
10th-century Saxon people
People killed by pirates