{{Short description, German aristocrat Lothar II (874-929), Count of Stade, son of Lothar I, Count of Stade, and Oda of Saxony, daughter of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony. Lothar was the great-grandfather of

Thietmar of Merseburg Thietmar (also Dietmar or Dithmar; 25 July 9751 December 1018), Prince-Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 until his death, was an important chronicler recording the reigns of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian (Saxon) dynasty. Two ...

, and is frequently confused in genealogical sources with Thietmar’s other great-grandfather of the same name who was Count of Walbeck. Lothar died fighting the Slavs in the

Battle of Lenzen The Battle of Lenzen was a land battle between a Saxon army of the Kingdom of Germany and the armies of the Slavic Redarii and Linonen peoples, that took place on 4 September 929 near the fortified Linonen stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg, ...

, as did

Lothar I, Count of Walbeck Lothar I (902-929), Count of Walbeck, of unknown parentage. Lothar was the great-grandfather of Thietmar of Merseburg, and is frequently confused in genealogical sources with Thietmar's other great-grandfather of the same name who was Count of S ...

. Thietmar describes his great-grandfathers (called Liuthar in his Chronicon), as “distinguished men, the best of warriors, of illustrious lineage, and the honour and solace of the homeland.” Lothar married Swanhild of Saxony and had four children: *

Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade Henry I the Bald (died 11 May 976) was Count of Stade. He was 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 mystery. Henry was also ap ...

* Gerburg von Stade *

Siegfried I, Count of Stade Siegfried I (b. before 929, d. after 961), Count of Stade, son of Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Swanhild of Saxony, brother of Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade. After the death of their father, Lothar, in the Battle of Lenzen, Stade was ruled ...

Upon his death, Lothar was succeeded as Count of Stade by Wichmann I the Elder.

Sources

Warner, David A., ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001 Leyser, Karl, ''Medieval Germany and Its Neighbours 900-1250'', The Hambledon Press, London, 1982 Bury, J. B. (editor), ''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, Germany and the Western Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1922
Medieval Lands Project, Grafen von Stade (family of Lothar)
874 births 929 deaths Counts of Stade German military personnel killed in action Saxon warriors 9th-century Saxon people 10th-century Saxon people 9th-century rulers in Europe