Duke Heinrich (The Lion) of Saxony and Bavaria V

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Ravensburg, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany

Duke Heinrich (The Proud) of Bavaria and Saxony

Duchess Gertrude of Austria

Duke Heinrich (Welf - Black) of Bavaria IX

Princess Ulfhide Billung (of Saxony)

Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany

General Notes

Name Suffix: Duke of Saxony
Ancestral File Number: 8WKQ-13
!Title:Duke of Saxony and Bavaria.
-Western Europ in the Middle Ages, 300-1375- by Tierney, 1978.

Notes from http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/regents/germany/saxony.htm

Saxony was originally a tribal duchy in north western Germany. When its duke Heinrich the Lion lost all of his fiefs 1180 Saxony was considerably reduced in size and given to the House of Askanien, it was later partitioned between two branches of that house into Sachsen-Lauenburg and Sachsen-Wittenberg. The latter was also an electorate, which meant that its duke had the right to participate in the election of Germany?s kings. Sachsen-Wittenberg was 1423 given to Friedrich the Warlike of the house of Wettin and who also was margrave of Meissen . All lands belonging to the house of Wettin would thereafter be called Saxony, and when the landgraviate of Thuringia had been added 1440 had a new large and significant Saxon state had been created outside the area of the original Saxon tribal duchy.

Saxony was partitioned 1485 between the brothers Ernst and Albrecht who had been co-regents since 1464. The two new states were first called the Electorate of Saxony (Ernst) and the duchy of Saxony (Albrecht). But the Ernestine line lost the elector title and large parts of its territory to the Albertine line 1547. After that the Ernestine lands were fragmented into numerous small and insignificant duchies through partitions between the different branches of the Ernestine Line.

When Johan Georg I died 1656 the Albertine part of Saxony was partitioned between his four sons. When these branches died out their lands were reunited with those ruled by the elector.

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- Azo of Tuscany I ^*
  - b.0979 in Estes, Italy d.1015
  
  Azo of Tuscany II
  - b.10 Jul 1009 in Estes, Italy d.1047
  
  Valdrada Condiano
  - b.0975 in Venice, Italy
  
  Duke Guelph of Bavaria IV
  - b.1040 in Estes, Italy d.09 Nov 1091
  
  Count Guelph of Altdorf II ^*
  - b.0972 d.10 Mar 1030
  
  Cunigarde
  - b.~  1020 in Estes, Italy d.21 Mar 1044
  
  Irmtrud de Luxembourg ^*
  - b.0990 d.1055
  
  Duke Heinrich (Welf - Black) of Bavaria IX
  - b.~  1074 in Bavaria d.13 Dec 1126 in Ravensburg, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany
  
  4th Duke of Normandy Richard (The Good) Normandy II ^*
  - b.~  0958 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, France
  
  Richard of Normandy III
  - b.0997 in Normandy, France d.06 Aug 1028
  
  Judith of Brittany ^*
  - b.0956 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
  
  Countess Judith of Northumbria
  - b.1027 in Flanders, Belgium d.1094
  
  King Robert II (The Pious) Capet Of France ^*
  - b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
  
  Princess Adelais Capet of France
  - b.~  1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
  
  Constance Of Toulouse ^*
  - b.0974 d.1032
  
  Duke Heinrich (The Proud) of Bavaria and Saxony
  - b.~  1100 in Bavaria d.20 Oct 1139
  
  Bernhard of Saxony II ^*
  - b.0995 d.29 Jun 1059
  
  Ordulph
  - b.~  1020 in Saxe, Prussia d.28 Mar 1075
  
  Margravine Eilika of Schweinfurt ^*
  - b.~  1005 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
  
  Duke of Saxony Magnus Billung
  - b.~  1045 in Saxe, Prussia d.23 Aug 1106
  
  Olaf (The Saint) Haraldsson II ^*
  - b.~  0995 in Ringerike, Buskerud, Norway d.29 Jun 1030 in Stiklestad, Norway
  
  Ulfhild Olafsdatter
  
  Astrid Olafdatter ^*
  - b.0999
  
  Princess Ulfhide Billung (of Saxony)
  - b.~  1070 in Saxe, Prussia d.29 Dec 1126 in Altdorf, Switzerland
  
  Vazul Arpad of Hungary ^*
  - b.0976 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.1037
  
  King Bela (The Holy) Arpad of Hungary I
  - b.1015 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.Dec 1063 in Nyitra, Hungary
  
  Katun of Bulgaria ^*
  - b.~  0978 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.06 Oct 1014
  
  Princess of Hungary Zsofia Arpad
  - b.~  1044 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.18 Jun 1095
  
  King Mieszko Lambert Piast of Poland II ^*
  - b.0990 in Poland d.10 May 1034
  
  Richza Piast
  - b.~  1018 in Krakow, Poland d.>  1052
  
  Countess Richenza of Palatinate-Lorraine ^*
  - b.0998 in Zutphen, Germany d.21 Mar 1063 in Saalfeld, Germany
  
  Duke Heinrich (The Lion) of Saxony and Bavaria V
  - b.1129 in Ravensburg, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany d.06 Aug 1195 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
  
  Duchess Gertrude of Austria
  - b.~  1105 in Bavaria
  
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