Eckhard I of Scheyern, also Ekkehard von Scheyern ( – died before 11 May 1091), was a son of
Otto I, Count of Scheyern. His mother cannot be unambiguously determined because Otto I Scheyern was first married to
Haziga of Diessen
Haziga of Diessen, also known as ''Hadegunde'' ( – 1 August 1104) was a Countess consort of Scheyern. Her descent is not entirely clear. It is usually assumed that her father was Count Frederick II of Diessen. He was Vogt of the Cathedra ...
(the widow of Count Herman of Kastl) and later to an unknown daughter of Count Meginhardt of Reichersbeuern, and the date of Eckhard's birth is not known.
Eckhard I was
Vogt
During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...
of
Freising
Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000.
Location
Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the ...
from 1074, and Vogt of
Weihenstephan from 1082.
Marriage and children
Eckhard was married to Richardis, a daughter of
Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola Ulric I (german: Ulrich I.), also ''Odalric'' or ''Udalrich'' (died 6 March 1070), Count of Weimar-Orlamünde, was margrave of Carniola from 1045 and of Istria from 1060 to his death.
Life
Ulric was the son of Margrave Poppo I of Carniola, whom ...
and
Sophia of Hungary. They had three sons:
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Udalrich I, Count of Scheyern (from 1130 provost of Freising) (
de)
*
Otto IV, Count of Scheyern, Count Palatine of Bavaria since 1120 (d. 22 Aug 1123) (V of Wittelsbach, IV of Scheyern)
* Eckhard II of Scheyern (d. c. 1135) (
de)
Ancestry
References
Sources
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External links
Famity tree of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach-Dachau-Valley
House of Wittelsbach
Counts of Germany
11th-century births
1091 deaths
11th-century German nobility
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