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OF ALEMANNIA Welf (Guelph)
Birth: ABT 776 Bavaria
Death: ABT 825
Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welf_(father_of_Judith)
Welf I (or Hwelf; died about 825) is the first documented ancestor of the Elder House
of Welf. He is mentioned as a count (comes) in the Frankish lands of Bavaria.
Life[edit]
Welf originated from a distinguished dynasty of Franconian nobles. He is mentioned
only once: on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Judith with Emperor Louis
the Pious in 819 at Aachen.[1] His son Conrad later appeared as a dux (duke) in
Alamannia and achieved a powerful position in the Upper Swabian estates he possibly
had inherited from his mother Hedwig (Heilwig).
His family became politically powerful when Louis the Pious chose his oldest daughter
as his 2nd wife upon the death of his consort Ermengarde of Hesbaye. Though Welf
himself never became publicly prominent, his family became interwoven with the
Carolingian dynasty.
Marriage and issue[edit]
Welf married Hedwig (Heilwig), daughter of the Saxon count Isambart; Hedwig later
became abbess of Chelles. The couple had the following children:
Judith (d. 843), married to Emperor Louis the Pious, Roman Empress and Frankish
Queen;
Rudolph (d. 866), Count of Ponthieu;
Conrad (d. after 862), Count of Auxerre, ancestor of the Welf kings of Burgundy;
Hemma (d. 876), Frankish Queen, married to King Louis the German, son of Emperor
Louis the Pious.
Parents
OF ALTDORF Guelph (Welf) II (ABT 745 - BEF 800)
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Siblings
OF ALEMANNIA Welf (Guelph) (ABT 776 - ABT 825)
Marriage To OF SAXONY Hedwig (Edith) (Eigilwich) (Heilwig) (ABT 780 - 19 Apr 843)
m.
Notes
Parents
____ Isambart ()
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Children by OF SAXONY Hedwig (Edith) (Eigilwich) (Heilwig) ABT 780 - 19 Apr 843
____ Conrad I (ABT 800 - 16 Feb 863)
OF BAVARIA Judith (ABT 800 - 19 Apr 843)
____ Rudolph (ABT 805 - 6 Jan 866)
OF BAVARIA Emma (ABT 806 - 31 Jan 876)
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