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Birth:          ABT  883 
Death:          29 Apr  926 

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drien from his lands by Henry "the Fowler"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard,_Duke_of_Thuringia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard_II,_Duke_of_Swabia
Burchard II (883/884 – 29 April 926) was the Hunfriding Duke of Swabia (from 917) 
and Count of Raetia. He was the son of Burchard I of Swabia and Liutgard of Saxony.

Burchard took part in the early wars over Swabia. His family being from Franconia, he 
founded the monastery of St Margarethen in Waldkirch to extend his family's influence 
into the Rhineland. On his father's arrest and execution for high treason in 911, he 
and his wife, Regelinda, daughter of Count Eberhard I of Zürich, went to Italy: either 
banished by Count Erchanger or voluntarily exiling themselves to their relatives over 
the Alps. Around 913, Burchard returned from exile and took control over his father's 
property. In 915, he joined Erchanger and Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, in battle against 
the Magyars. Then Burchard and Erchanger turned on King Conrad I and, at the Battle 
of Wahlwies in the Hegau, defeated him. Erchanger was proclaimed duke.

After Erchanger was killed on 21 January 917, Burchard seized all his lands and was 
recognised universally as duke. In 919, King Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy seized the 
county of Zürich and invaded the region of Konstanz, then the centre and practical 
capital of the Swabian duchy. At Winterthur, however, Rudolph was defeated by 
Burchard, who thus consolidated the duchy and forced on the king his own territorial 
claims. In that same year, he recognised the newly elected king of Germany, Henry 
the Fowler, duke of Saxony. Henry in turn gave Burchard rights of taxation and 
investiture of bishops and abbots in his duchy.

In 922, Burchard married his daughter Bertha to Rudolph and affirmed the peace of 
three years prior. Burchard then accompanied Rudolph into Italy when he was elected 
king by opponents of the Emperor Berengar. In 924, the emperor died and Hugh of 
Arles was elected by his partisans to oppose Rudolph. Burchard attacked Novara, 
defended by the troops of Lambert, Archbishop of Milan. There he was killed, probably 
on April 29. His widow, Regelinda (d. 958), remarried to Burchard's successor, Herman 
I. She had given him five children:
Gisela (c. 905 – 26 October 923 or 925), abbess of Waldkirch
Hicha (c. 905 – 950), whose son was Conrad, Duke of Lorraine
Burchard III (c. 915 – 11 November 973), later duke of Swabia
Bertha (c. 907 – 2 January 961), married Rudolph II, King of Burgundy
Adalric (d. 973), monk in Einsiedeln Abbey

Parents
____ Burkhard I (ABT  845 - 23 Nov  911)
OF SAXONY Liutgard (ABT  850 - )

Siblings
OF WETTIN AND GRABFELDGAU Burkhard II (ABT  883 - 29 Apr  926)

Marriage To OF ZURICH Regelinda (ABT  880 - AFT  958)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF ZURICH Eberhard I ()
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Children by OF ZURICH Regelinda ABT  880 - AFT  958
____ Dedi (ABT  900 - 14 Apr  957)
____ Hicha (ABT  905 - )

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