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Birth:          ABT  875 
Death:           950 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricfried,_Count_of_Betuwe
Ricfried (845–950) was Count of Betuwe and head of the dynasty of Counts of Looz, 
the first of which was his descendent Giselbert. Nothing is known about his ancestry.

Life[edit]

He was granted the title of Count of Betuwe by Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia, in 
897, and was also known as Count Dodo (comitatu Dodonis). The memorial of Ricfried 
names presul Baldricus…preses Rodolphus…rector Yrimfredus pariterque comes 
Nevelongus [prelate Balderic, governor Rudolph, rector Ehrenfried and count 
Nebelung] as his children. Virtually all that we know abour Ricfried is from his children 
and their spouses and children.

Balderic’s biography states that “he was the son of Count Ricfried in the Betuwe, who 
expelled the Vikings from Utrecht, after which Balderic, who like his immediate 
predecessors had resided in Deventer, was able to move the bishopric back to 
Utrecht.” Balderic is also identified as a cousin of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine, and uncle 
of Baldrick, Bishop of Liège.

Family[edit]

Ricfried married Herensinda, from an unknown family. They had five children:
Ehrenfried (d. after 966), Count of Toxandria
Nibelung (d. before 953), Count of Betuwe
Rudolfe, Bishop of Laon and Count of Ivois, father of Raoul, Count of Verdun
Balderic, Bishop of Utrecht
Herwesindis, married Lambert, Count of Lovain and Advocate of Gembloux Abbey, 
possibly of the House of Reginar.

Herwesindis and Lambert were parents of Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht. Thietmar of 
Merseburg refers to the "like-named paternal uncle (patruo) of Count Ansfrid" who 
held fifteen countships. Vanderkindere believed that Ansfrid, Count of Toxandria, was 
his maternal, not paternal, uncle, and that he was the same person as Ehrenfried.

Ricfried was succeeded by his son Nibelung as Count of Betuwe upon his death.


Marriage To ____ Heresinda (ABT  885 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Heresinda ABT  885 - 
____ Nibelung (Nevelung) (ABT  900 - BEF  953)
VON BETUWE ---- (ABT  910 - )

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