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1003 - 1038 (34 years)

Generation: 1

Ludolph of Friesland was born on 16 July 1003 in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 23 April 1038 in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Notes:

Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia
Count of Brunswick
Issue:
Brun II
Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
Matilda of Frisia
Ida of Elsdorf
Noble family Brunonen
Father Bruno I, Count of Brunswick
Mother Gisela of Swabia
Born c. 1003
Died 23 April 1038 (aged 34–35)
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Liudolf of Brunswick (c. 1003 – 23 April 1038) was Margrave of Frisia, Count of Brunswick, Count in the Derlingau and the Gudingau. He was a member of the Brunonen family.

Liudolf was a descendant of the Saxon family of the Brunonen. He was a son of Bruno I, Count of Brunswick, and Gisela of Swabia. The later Roman Emperor Henry III was his half-brother. He married Gertrude of Egisheim and had four children. He controlled the Frisian counties Oostergo, Zuidergo and Westergo. For two more generations the Brunonen family line inherited the title. How the Brunonen came to their position in the counties is not known. There is a theory that Liudolf took advantage of the reign of violence by the Counts of Holland in the part of Friesland between the Vlie and the Lauwers. Not much is known about his life. He died in 1038 and was succeeded by his son, Bruno II. His daughter Matilda married Henry I of France, the widower of her aunt. One popular theory of the origins of Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile makes her another daughter.
Family

Liudolf and Gertrude had the following children:

Brun II (around 1024 – 26 June 1057)
Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen (died 1068)
Matilda of Frisia (died 1044); married King Henry I of France
Ida of Elsdorf

Bibliography

H. Halbertsma Frieslands oudheid, Het rijk van de Friese koningen, opkomst en ondergang (Frieslands antiquity, Realm of the Frisian kings, rise and fall) (Utrecht 2000)
Die familiären Verbindungen der Brunonen
Liudolf Graf von Braunschweig
Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon, Appelhans 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7

Family/Spouse: Gertrude Von Egisheim-Dagsburg. Gertrude (daughter of Count Hugo Nordgau IV and Hedwig Von Dagsbourg) was born in 1006 in Nordgau, Medieval States; died on 21 July 1077 in Göttingen, Hanover, Prussia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Ekbert II von Meißen was born in 1022; died in Jan 1068.

Generation: 2

Ekbert II von Meißen

(1.Ludolph¹) was born in 1022; died in Jan 1068.

Family/Spouse: Irmgard Von Susa. Irmgard (daughter of Olderico Manfredi II Susa and Berta Obertenghi) was born in Abt. 1015 in Torino, Italy; died on 21 Jan 1078. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

3. Gertrude de Brunswick was born in 1060 in Brunswick, Germany ; died on 9 December 1117.

Generation: 3

Gertrude de Brunswick

(2.Ekbert², 1.Ludolph¹) was born in 1060 in Brunswick, Germany ; died on 9 December 1117.

Family/Spouse: Heinrich Von Northeim. Heinrich (son of Herzog Otto I von Bayern Northeim and Richenza Otto de Lorraine) was born in Abt. 1051 in Northeim, Hanover, Germany; died on 10 April 1101 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

4. Countess Gertrude Northeim was born in 1093 in Saxony, Prussia; died in 1117 in Rheineck, Rhineland, Prussia.

Generation: 4

Countess Gertrude Northeim

(3.Gertrude³, 2.Ekbert², 1.Ludolph¹) was born in 1093 in Saxony, Prussia; died in 1117 in Rheineck, Rhineland, Prussia.

Family/Spouse: Count Otto I Rheineck. Count was born in Abt. 1094; died in 1150 in Luxembourg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

5. Hedwige De Salm de Reineke de Bentheim was born in 1120 in Enghien, Hainaut, Belgium; died in 1167 in France.

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