Frederick I, Count of Zollern (nicknamed ; died: before 1125), was often cited as a powerful Swabian Count and supporter of the imperial party of

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. He most likely was the son of Burkhard I, and was married to Udilhild (or Udahild) of the

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(died: 11. April, 1134), which house later became the

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family. They had nine children; his eldest son was Frederick II. A younger son was Burkhard, who founded the Zollern-Hohenberg line (which became extinct in 1486). Frederick was the first reeve of the Swabian

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, which had been founded by Adalbert of Zollern (from the short-lived Zollern-Haigerloch line) and other lords. The

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(later: Hohenzollern) dynasty based their rise to power on their loyalty to the ruling royal or imperial family. Frederick I served the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to France. He also accompanied Henry V on his Italian expedition in 1110 and again in 1111, where Henry V intended to claim the imperial crown in Rome. He is also mentioned as an advisor to Henry V in both 1111 and 1114, both times while the imperial party was in

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Family and children

Frederick I and Udilhild most likely had at least nine children: * Frederick II (died around 1143), Count of Zollern * Burkhard (died between 1150 and 1155), also Burkhard II of Zollern-Hohenberg * Egino * Gotfried of Zimmern (most likely near

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) (died between 1156 and 1160), likely Count of Zollern sometime around 1155 * Ulrich (died 1135 by poisoning), who late in life became a monk, then abbot, at the Benedictine abbey in Reichenau, after supposedly having been involved in the murder of his predecessor * Adalbert (or Albert), who became a monk in Zwiefalten * Kuno (?) * Luitgard * Udilhild

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Page at genealogie-mittelalter.de

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Family and children

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