Henry I The Bald, Count Of Stade
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Henry I the Bald (died 11 May 976) was the Count of Stade. He was the son of Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Swanhild of Saxony. Henry is recorded as a cousin of
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great ( ) or Otto of Saxony ( ), was East Francia, East Frankish (Kingdom of Germany, German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son o ...
, but their exact relationship remains a mystery. Henry was also appointed Count of Heilangau, the ancient capital of Stade, in 959. Apparently, when Henry’s father died in the Battle of Lenzen, the county of
Stade Stade (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (, ) is a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the Stade (district), district () which bears its name. It is located roughly to the wes ...
was taken by Wichmann the Elder and his two sons, not to return to the family of Lothar until 967. Henry's grandson Thietmar of Merseburg recounts that Henry tried to capture Margrave Hermann Billung because of “arrogance” in ceremonial matters, but failed. Henry married first Judith von der Wetterau (925-973), sister of Conrad I, Duke of Swabia. Their father was either Conrad or Udo, son of
Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine Gebhard of Lahngau ( 860/868 – 22 June 910), of the Conradine dynasty, son of Odo (aka Udo, 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 ...
. Henry and Judith had: * Henry II the Good, Count of Stade * Lothair Udo I, Count of Stade * Gerberg von Stade (d. 1000), married Dietrich I, Count of
Querfurt Querfurt () is a town in the Saalekreis district, or ''Kreis'', in southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is located in a fertile area on the Querne, west from Merseburg. In 2020, the town had a population of 10,454. The town Querfurt consists of Q ...
. Their son was Dietrich, Bishop of Münster. * Kunigunde von Stade (956-997), married Siegfried I the Older, Count of Walbeck. Their son was Thietmar, Prince-Bishop of Merseburg, chronicler of the
Ottonian dynasty The Ottonian dynasty () was a Saxons, Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman emperors, especially Otto the Great. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German ...
of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. * Herwig von Stade * Emnilde von Stade *
Siegfried II, Count of Stade Siegfried II (c. 956 – 1037), Count of Stade, was the youngest son of Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade, and his wife Judith von der Wetterau, granddaughter of Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine. He succeeded his brother, Henry as Count of Stade in 1016.< ...
. Henry married Hildegard von Reinhausen, daughter of Elli I, Count of Reinhausen, for his second marriage . Henry and Hildegard had one child: * Hildegarde von Stade (974- 3 October 1011), married Bernard I, Duke of Saxony, son of Hermann Billung, Margrave of the Billung March, and his wife Countess Oda. Henry was succeeded as Count of Stade by his brother Siegfried I. The date of succession is unclear, but it was possibly as early as 973.


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*Reuter, Timothy, ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1036'', London and New York, 1992 *Bachrach, B. S. (translator), ''Widukind of Corvey, Deeds of the Saxons'', The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2004 *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 * {{Authority control 976 deaths Counts of Stade Counts of the Holy Roman Empire