Siegfried II (c. 956 – 1037),
Count of Stade, was the youngest son of
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 ...
, and his wife Judith von der Wetterau, granddaughter of
Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine
Gebhard of Lahngau ( 860/868 – 22 June 910), of the Conradine dynasty, son of Odo (died 879), count of Lahngau, and Judith, was himself count of Wetterau (909–910) and Rheingau (897–906) and then duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
In 903, Lo ...
.
Siegfried married Adela of Rhienfelden, daughter of
Gero
Gero I ( – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great ( la, magnus),Thompson, 486. Also se was a German nobleman who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he expande ...
, Count of
Alsleben, and his wife Adela. Siegfried and Adelaide had three children:
*
Lothair Udo II, Count of Stade, and Margrave of Nordmark (as Lothair Udo I)
* Irmgard von Stade, Abbess of Alsleben
* Bertha von Stade, Abbess of Alsleben.
Siegfried was succeeded as Count of Stade by his son Lothair Udo II.
Sources
* Warner, David A., ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
* Bury, J. B. (editor), ''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, Germany and the Western Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1922
* Hucke, Richard G., ''Die Grafen von Stade 900-1144. Genealogie, politische Stellung, Comitat und Allodialbesitz der sächsischen Udonen''; Diss. Kiel, Stade mit umfassenden Nachweisen der Quellen und älteren Literatur, 1956
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950s births
1037 deaths
Counts of Stade
10th-century Saxon people
10th-century rulers in Europe
11th-century Saxon people
11th-century rulers in Europe
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