Henry I the Long (c. 1065 – 27 June 1087),

Margrave of the Nordmark The Northern March or North March (german: Nordmark) was created out of the division of the vast ''Marca Geronis'' in 965. It initially comprised the northern third of the ''Marca'' (roughly corresponding to the modern state of Brandenburg) and ...

, also Count of Stade (as Henry III), son of

Lothair Udo II, Margrave of the Nordmark Lothair Udo II (c. 1025 – 1082) was Margrave of the Nordmark from 1057 until his death and also Count of Stade (as Lothair Udo III). He was the only son of Lothair Udo I of the Udonids and Adelaide of Rheinfelden. The power base of hi ...

, and Oda of Werl, daughter of Herman III, Count of Werl, and Richenza of Swabia. Henry married

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, daughter of Vsevolod I, Grand Prince of Kiev, and his second wife

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. There were no children as a result of this marriage, and Eupraxia, widowed, married next Henry IV, then King of Saxony, who became Holy Roman Emperor. Raffensperger suggests that Henry's motivation in marrying Eupraxia was to bring Saxony closer to Kiev.Raffensperger, 'Reimagining Europe'. In fact, the marriage may have been arranged by Oda of Stade, daughter of Lothair Udo I, Margrave of the Nordmark, who had married Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev. Oda is identified as a relative of Henry’s father Lothair Udo II as well as a niece of

Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (28 October 1016 – 5 October 1056), called the Black or the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia. Henry was raised ...

, and

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. Upon his death, Henry was succeeded as margrave and count by his brother Lothair Udo III.

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Sources

*Vernadsky, George, ''Kievan Russia'',

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, 1948, *Raffensperger, Christian, ''Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World'',

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, 2012 *H. Rüß, ‘Eupraxia-Adelheid. Eine biographische Annäherung,‘ ''Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas'' 54 (2006), 481–518.

External links

Medieval Lands Project, Grafen von Stade (family of Lothar)
{{Authority control Margraves of the Nordmark Counts of Stade 1087 deaths 11th-century German nobility Year of birth uncertain