Hedwig of Formbach ( 1058 – c. 1090) was the daughter of Frederick,

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of Formbach and of Gertrude of

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, and heiress to Süpplingenburg Castle. She was the mother of Emperor Lothair II.

Marriages

Hedwig's first husband was Gebhard of Supplinburg. According to the ''

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'', Gebhard had to overcome the resistance of his rivals, the counts of

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, relatives of Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, who tried to have the marriage annulled. After Gebhard's death in June 1075 at the Battle of Langensalza, Hedwig married

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(as his first wife).

Children

With Gebhard, Hedwig had two children: * Lothair, later Holy Roman Emperor * Ida (d.1138), who married Sighard IX (d. 1104), count of Tengling, Schala and Burghausen With Theoderic, Hedwig had: *

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(1076 – 1138), who succeeded Theoderic as

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, and was married to Adelaide of Leuven (d. 1158), daughter of his stepmother Gertrude and Henry III, Count of Leuven. * Gertrude (who later changed her name to Petronilla) (died 1144), who married Floris II of Holland

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