Part 2.

 

 

Alberto Azzo II, Marchese d'Este (997-1097; son of Alberto Azzo I Cte di Luni, Genoa & Milano (d.1029)) m.1st ca 1035 Kunigunde (see Part 1); m.2nd Gersende, dau.of Cte Herbert I du Maine and ex-wife of Cte Thibaut III de Blois; by the second marriage he had two sons: Cte Hugues V du Maine, who sold the Comté of Maine to his cousin, Hélie de la Fleche ca 1093, and Folco I d'Este (d.1128); for the descendants of Folco, see Part 7.

Azzo II had by Kunigunde one son:

 

Welf IV, Duke of Bavaria 1070 (d.Paphos, Cyprus 9 Nov 1101; bur Weingarten), who m.1st (div 1070) Ethelinde, dau.of Otto von Northeim, Duke of Bavaria, and m.2nd ca 1070 Judith, dau.of  Duke Richard III of Normandy (and widow of Tostig, Earl of Northumberland). By the first marriage Welf acquired Bavaria; by the second he had 2 sons:

 

a.                          Welf V, Duke of Bavaria (b.ca 1073, d.Burg Kaufering 24 Sep 1120, bur Weingarten), who m.ca 1089 Matilda, Lady of Canossa, Dss of Tuscany (d.Bondeno de’Roncovi 24 Jul 1115, bur San Benedetto di Polirono), dau.of Bonifacius of Canossa, Mgve and Ct of Reggio, Modena and Brescia, Mgve of Tuscany, Duke of Spoleto

b.                          Heinrich "the Black", Duke of Bavaria (ca 1074-Ravensburg 13 Dec 1126; bur Weingarten), who m.Wulfhild (d.Altdorf 29 Dec 1126; bur Weingarten) dau.of Duke Magnus of Saxony, and had issue as follows below:

 

 

1a) Heinrich "the Proud", Duke of Bavaria 1126-28 and of Saxony 1137-9 (b.ca 1108, d.Quedlinburg 20 Oct 1139; bur Königslutter); m.Gunzenle 29 May 1127 Gertrud v.Süpplingenburg (18 Apr 1115-18 Apr 1143; bur Klosterneuburg) dau.of Emperor Lothar, and grandaughter of Gertrude, heiress of the first Grafen von Braunschweig (and later wife of Duke Heinrich of Bavaria and Austria)

 

1b) Heinrich "the Lion", Duke of Saxony 1142 and of Bavaria 1156 (b.1129/33, d.Braunschweig 6 Aug 1195; bur Braunschweig Dom); about 1180 he fell from power and lost his duchies, but the family kept their new family lands in Braunschweig; m.1st ca 1148 (div 1162) Klementia (d.by 1167), dau.of Duke Konrad I von Zähringen (and later wife of Ct Humbert of Savoy); m.2nd Minden 1 Feb 1168 Matilda (d.Braunschweig 28 Jun 1189; bur Braunschweig Dom) dau.of King Henry II of England

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1c) Heinrich, d.young (fell from table) at Lüneburg, bur Lüneburg Klosterkirche

 

2c) Gertrud (ca 1155-1 Jul 1197); m.1st 1166 Duke Friedrich IV of Swabia (d.Rome 19 Aug 1167); m.2nd 1177 King Knut IV of Denmark (d.12 Nov 1202)

 

3c) Richza, d.by 1 Feb 1168

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

4c) Heinrich I Pfgf bei Rhein 1195/1212 (1173/4-Braunschweig 28 Apr 1227; bur Braunschweig Dom); m.1st Burg Stahleck 1193/4 Agnes (d.Stade 9 May 1204; bur St.Marien, Stade) dau.of Conrad von Staufen Pfgf bei Rhein; m.2nd 1211 Agnes v.Wettin (dsp 1 Jan 1248; bur Wienhausen) dau.of Mkgf Konrad von der Lausitz

 

1d) Heinrich II Pfgf bei Rhein (ca 1196-14 Apr/1 May 1214; bur Kl Schönau nr Heidelberg); m.Aachen Nov 1212 Matilda (d.21 Dec 1267; bur Loosduinen) dau.of Duke Henry I of Brabant (and later wife of Ct Florenz of Holland)

 

2d) Irmingard (b.ca 1200, d.Lichtenthal 24 Feb 1259; bur Lichtenthal); m.ca 1217 Mgve Hermann V of Baden (d.1 Jan 1242; bur Backnang)

 

3d) Agnes (ca 1201-16 Nov 1267; bur Scheyern); m.Worms May 1222 Duke Otto II of Bavaria (d.29 Nov 1253; bur Scheyern)

 

5c) Lothar (b.1174/5, d.as hostage at Augsburg 15 Oct 1190; bur St.Afra, Augsburg)

 

6c) Otto IV, German King 1198, Emperor 1209 (1176/7-d.on the Harzburg 19 May 1218; bur Braunschweig Dom); m.1st Nordhausen 23 Jul 1212 Beatrix von Hohenstaufen (1198-11 Aug 1212; bur Braunschweig Dom) dau.of Emperor Philipp; m.2nd Maastricht 19 May 1214 Marie (d.19 May/14 Jun 1260; bur St.Peter, Louvain) dau.of Duke Henry I of Brabant (and later wife of Ct William of Holland)

 

7c) Wilhelm, Duke of Lüneburg 1208 (Winchester 1184-12 Dec 1213; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg); m.summer 1202 Helene (d.Lüneburg 22 Nov 1233; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of King Waldemar I of Denmark

 

1d) Otto I "the Child", Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1204-Braunschweig 9 Jun 1252; bur Braunschweig Dom); m.1228 Matilda (d.10 Jun 1261) dau.of Mgve Albrecht II of Brandenburg

 

1e) Otto, d.1247, bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg

 

2e) Albrecht I "the Great", Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1236-Braunschweig 15 Aug 1279; bur Braunschweig Dom); m.1st Braunschweig 13 Jul 1254 Elisabeth (1243-dsp 1261) dau.of Duke Henry II of Brabant; m.2nd Kenilworth 1 Nov 1263 Alessina (d.4/5 Feb 1285) dau.of Mgve Bonifacius of Montferrat (and later wife of Gerhard Gf von Holstein-Schauenburg); for his descendants see Part 3

 

3e) Johann, Duke of Lüneburg (1242-13 Dec 1277; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg); m.Hamburg 1265 Liutgard (d.after 28 Feb 1289; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of Gerhard Gf von Holstein (and later wife of Albrecht Fst von Anhalt)

 

1f) Otto II, Duke of Lüneburg, d.9/10 Apr 1330; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg; m.1st a dau (dsp) of Otto Gf von Oldenburg; m.2nd 1288 Matilde (1275-Lüneburg 28 Mar 1319; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of  Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria

 

1g) Johann, administrator of the archbishopric of Bremen, d.8/28 Sep 1324; bur Walsrode

 

2g) Otto III, Duke of Lüneburg (1296-19 Aug 1352; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg); m.22 Mar 1310 Matilde (b.1293, d.3 Jun after 1358; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of Heinrich II Fst von Mecklenburg

 

1h) Otto, drowned young in the Ilmenau

 

2h) Elisabeth, Abbess of Wienhausen 1359/81, d.20 Feb 1386

 

3h) Matilde, d.by 1357; m.1339/40 Otto Gf von Waldeck (d.ca 1369)

 

3g) Wilhelm, Duke of Lüneburg, d.23 Nov 1369; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg; m.1st by 7 Apr 1328 Hedwig (d.5 Dec 1336; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of Otto Gf von Ravensberg; m.2nd Marie N (d.before 2 Feb 1341); m.3rd Magdeburg 12 Mar 1346 Sophie (d.18 Dec 1362; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of Bernhard Gf von Anhalt-Bernburg; m.4th 24 Jun 1363 Agnes (d.after 7 Jan 1387; bur St.Michaelis, Lüneburg) dau.of Duke Erich II of Saxe-Lauenburg

 

1h) [by 1st m.] Elisabeth, d.17 Apr 1384; m.1st 10 Oct 1339 Duke Otto of Saxe-Wittenberg (d.30 Mar 1350); m.2nd 1354 Nikolaus Gf von Holstein-Schauenburg (d.8 May 1397)

 

2h) [by 2nd m.] Matilde, d.after 16 May 1410; m.1st 1355 Duke Ludwig of Braunschweig (d.1367); m.2nd 25 Jun 1368 Gf Otto I von Holstein-Schauenburg (d.16 Mar 1404)

 

4g) Ludwig, Bp of Minden 1324, d.18 Jul 1346, bur Walsrode Klosterkirche

 

5g) Matilde; m.Ulzen autumn 1315 Nikolaus Fst von Werle (d.Süstow 12 Oct 1316)

 

6g) Luitgard, Abbess of Wienhausen 1328/36, d.16 Apr 1338

 

7g) Jutta, Abbess of Wienhausen 1338, d.16 Aug 1342

 

8g) [illegitimate] Ludolf von Lüneburg, a canon in Medingen fl 1326/55

 

2f) Matilde, d.after 1308, bur Kl Wienhausen; m.1291 Heinrich Fst von Werle (d.8 Jan 1291)

 

3f) Elisabeth, d.1294/8, bur Rastede; m.before 7 Mar 1294 Johann Gf von Oldenburg (d.1314/6)

 

4f) Agnes, d.by 27 Jun 1297; m.ca 1283 Werner von Hadmersleben Gf zu Friedeberg

 

5f) Helene (bur St.Silvestri, Wernigerode); m.by 1315 Konrad Gf von Wernigerode (d.22 Jul 1339)

 

6f) [illegitimate] Heinrich von Braunschweig, a canon in Walsrode, d.by 23 Aug 1324

 

4e) Otto, Bp of Hildesheim 1274, d.4 Jul 1279, bur Hildesheim Dom

 

5e) Konrad, Bp of Verden 1283, d.15 Sep 1299, bur St.Andreas, Verden

 

6e) Matilde, Abbess of Gernrode 1275/95, d.1297; m.1245 Heinrich Gf von Anhalt (d.1266)

 

7e) Helene (18 Mar 1223-6 Sep 1273; bur Wittenberg); m.1st 1239 Ldgve Hermann II of Thuringia (d.Kreuzburg 3 Jan 1241); m.2nd 1247/8 Duke Albrecht I of Saxe-Wittenberg (d.8 Nov 1260)

 

8e) Elisabeth, d.27 May 1266, bur Middelburg; m.Braunschweig 25 Jan 1252 Ct William II of Holland, German King (k.a.Hoogwoude 28 Jan 1256)

 

9e) Adelheid, d.12 Jun 1274, bur Marburg Elisabethkirche; m.by 26 Mar 1263 Ldgve Heinrich I of Hesse (d.21 Dec 1308)

 

10e) Agnes, d.Dec 1327; m.1263/5 Wizlaw Fst von Rügen (d.Oslo 29 Dec 1302)

 

8c) Richenza (1172-1209/10); m.1st Rouen 1189 Geoffroi Cte du Perche (d.5 Apr 1202); m.2nd 1204 Enguerrand de Coucy (d.1242 [1243?])

 

9c) [illegitimate by N von Blieskastel] Matilda, b.by 1164, d.by 1219; m.by 30 Dec 1178 1167 Heinrich Borwin I Fst von Mecklenburg (d.28 Jan 1227)

 

2a) Konrad, a Cistercian monk, d.Bari 17 Mar 1126

 

3a) Welf VI, Duke of Spoleto (1114/6-Memmingen 15 Dec 1191; bur Steingaden); m.by Jan 1133 Uta, Dss of Schauenburg (d.1196), dau.of Gottfried Gf von Calw Pfgf am Rhein

 

1b) Welf VII, Duke of Spoleto, d.Siena 11/12 Sep 1167, bur Steingaden

 

2b) [?Elisabeth; m.ca 115- Rudolf Gf v.Pfullendorf (d.9 Jan 1181)]

 

4a) Sophie, d.by 1147; m.1st Duke Berthold III von Zaehringen (k.a.3 Dec 1122); m.2d Leopold of Austria, Mkgf v.Steyr (d.24 Oct 1129)

 

5a) Judith, b.after 1100, d.1130/1; m.1119/21 Duke Friedrich II of Swabia (d.1147)

 

6a) Mathilde, d.16 Feb 1183; m.1st ca 1128 Dietrich Mkgf von Vohburg (d.ca 1128); m.2nd ca 1129 Gebhard Gf von Sulzbach (d.28 Oct 1188)

 

7a) Wulfhild, d.after 1156; m.Rudolf Gf von Bregenz (d.1160)