Count Poppo von Saargau I 
Poppo was born in 0819 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States.1 Poppo's father was Count Heinrich of Oberheingau and his mother was Hadaburg von Saargau. His paternal grandparents were Count Heimerich of Oberheingau and <Unknown>. He was an only child. He died at the age of 49 in 0868 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States.1 General Notes
The earliest known ancestor of the Babenbergs was one Poppo, who early in the 9th century was count in Grapfeld, in the area between modern Hesse and Thuringia. One of his sons, Henry, sometimes called margrave and duke in Franconia, fell fighting against the Normans in 886; another, Poppo, was margrave in Thuringia from 880 to 892, when he was deposed by the German Carolingian king Arnulf of Carinthia. The family had been favoured by Emperor Charles the Fat, but Arnulf reversed this policy in favour of the rival family of the Conradines.
The leaders of the Babenbergs were the three sons of Duke Henry, who called themselves after their castle of Babenberg on the upper Main, around which their possessions centred. The city of Bamberg was built around the ancestral castle of the family.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0665 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States d.0741
- b.0695 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States d.0764 in Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- b.0677 in Neustria, France
- b.0723 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States d.0782
- b.0675 in Wormgau, Rhine Valley, Germany
- b.0689 d.0764
<Unknown>
- b.0763 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States d.05 May 0795
- b.0733
- b.0793 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States d.0812 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
<Unknown>
- b.0819 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States d.0868 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
- b.0793 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
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Details of Poppo's family with Williswind
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=michaelrneuman&id=I007915&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I021702
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I021702
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