ID: I021702
Name: Poppo I Von Saargau , Count of Saargau 1
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 819 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States 1
Death: 868 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States 1
Note:
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.



Father: Count of Oberheingau Heinrich b: ABT 793 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States
Mother: Hadaburg Von Saargau b: ABT 793 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States

Marriage 1 Williswind b: ABT 825 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
Children
Heinrich Von Saargau , 'Dux Austrasiorum' b: ABT 844 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
Poppo II Von Saargau , Count of Sorbenmark b: ABT 853 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
Hedwige von Saargau b: ABT 851 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States

Sources:
Title: Uda von Saxony.ged
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Text: Date of Import: 27 Feb 2005