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Birth:          ABT  965 Germany
Death:          25 Jan 1003 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_I,_Margrave_of_the_Nordmark
Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
Lothair I (Lothar, Liuthar) (ca. 940 – 25 January 1003) was Margrave of the Nordmark 
(Northern March) from about 983 until his death. He was also a member of Saxon 
nobility as Count of Derlingau and of Nordthüringgau.

Born the eldest son of Lothar II the Old, Count of Walbeck, and Matilda von Arneburg, 
he succeeded his father as Lothar III, Count of Walbeck, in 964. He was a paternal 
uncle of the chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, son of his younger brother 
Siegfried. Lothair did not inherit the County of Walbeck, but rather became count in 
the Derlingau and Nordthüringgau of Eastphalia in 982. When his brother Siegfried 
died in 990, he tried to seize all his mother's possessions to the disadvantage of his 
nephews.

After Count Dietrich of Haldensleben in 983 had been deposed from the Northern 
March for failing to defend the bishoprics of Brandenburg and Havelberg east of the 
Elbe river in the Great Slav Rising, he was replaced by Lothair, who was first 
mentioned as margrave in 993. However, his attempts to wrest the eastern territories 
of the Northern March from the Slavic Lutici were unsuccessful and he actually ruled 
only over a small strip of land along the Elbe in the southwest. Lothair came into 
conflict with Margrave Eckard I of Meissen over the arranged marriage of his eldest 
son Werner with Eckard's daughter Liutgard, which the Meissen margrave opposed. 
He therefore put up resistance against Eckard's candidacy for the succession of late 
Emperor Otto III in 1002 and won the Saxon nobles over for the support of rivaling 
Duke Henry IV of Bavaria. Eckard was murdered in the same year, and the wedding of 
Werner and Liutgard could take place.

Lothair married Godila (d. 1015), daughter of Werner, Count of Rothenburg. Lothair 
and Godila had five children:
Werner, Margrave of the Nordmarkt
Lothar (d. in battle, 1033), Count of Harzgau. Sometimes referred to as Lothar IV, 
Count of Walbeck, but not included in Thietmar's description of the House of Lothar.
Berthold von Walbeck (d. 1018 or after), married Irmgard von Aspel (d. before 1022), 
daughter of Godizo, Count of Aspel, and Adela de Verdun, daughter of Godfrey the 
Prisoner, Count of Verdun
Dietrich, Canon at Magdeburg
Birgida, Abbess of St. Lawrence at Magdeburg. Sometimes claimed as daughter of 
Frederick, Count of Walbeck.

Margrave Lothair died in 1003 and was buried in Cologne. His widow, Godila of 
Rothenburg, remained unmarried for four years after his death, eventually marrying 
Herman II, Count of Werl. His first-born son Werner succeeded him in the Northern 
March and his second son, Count Lothar IV of Walbeck, eventually also placed a 
claim on it. His third son, Berthold, rebelled in 1017 and submitted in 1018, and his 
youngest son, Dietrich, became a canon at Magdeburg around 1008.
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Parents
____ Lothar II (ABT  925 - 3 Dec  991)
VON ARNEBURG Mathilda (ABT  900 - 3 Dec  990)

Siblings
VON WALBECK Eilika (Eiliswintha) (Heilika) (Eila) (ABT  955 - 19 Aug 1015)
____ Lothar III (ABT  965 - 25 Jan 1003)

Marriage To VON ROTHENBURG Godila (ABT  978 - 1015)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Werner (ABT  940 - )
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Children by VON ROTHENBURG Godila ABT  978 - 1015
____ Lothar IV (ABT  995 - 1033)

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