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Welf (father of Judith)
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Welf or Hwelf also known as Welf I, was the son of the 9th century Frankish count Rothard of Metz. He is the oldest known member of the Elder House of Welf. Welf is mentioned only once: on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Judith with Emperor Louis the Pious in 819.
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Welf married Hedwig, Duchess of bavaria, daughter of the Saxon count Isanbart; Hedwig was abbess of Chelles. They had the following:
Judith, Roman Empress and Frankish Queen, died 843;
Rudolf, died 866;
Conrad, Count of Paris, ancestor of the Welf kings of Burgundy;
Hemma, Frankish Queen, died 876.
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FMG on Welf, the Margrave of Swabia
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Welf I. was the founder of the Swabian, or south German, line of the Elder House of Welf. The Welfs were originally descended from Frankish nobility, landowners in Alsace and in Lorraine. In the Historia Welforum, in which this famous Welf family tree is also recorded, an absolute boast was made: "They are descended from those Franks who once migrated from Troy." The Welfs were able to develop a single dynastic house in Swabia between Bodensee and the river Lech, where their main castle of Altorf (Weingarten) was situated, after which they were also named. The social and political ascent of the Welfs in the Empire had already begun a generation before Welf I. His aunts Judith and Hemma married, respectively, the Frankish Emperor Ludwig I. the Pious (d. 840) and Ludwig the German (d. 876), and with these marriages began the social and political ascent of the Welfs in the Empire. These royal connections turned the Welfs into the most influential family in southern Germany.
--Adapted from the website, Die Welfen
Sources
The Encyclopædia Britannica CD 99.
Schneidmüller, Bernd. In the catalog for the exhibition: "Heinrich der Löwe," Brunswick 1995.
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Elder Welfs
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The elder House of Welf was a dynasty of European rulers in the 9th through 11th centuries. It consisted of two groups, a Burgundian group and a Swabian group. It is disputed whether the two groups formed one dynasty or whether they shared the same name by coincidence only.
The older of the two groups was the Burgundian group. Its oldest known member was Welf, who was mentioned in 819 as father of Judith (not to be confused with Welf I of the Swabian group). His great-grandson Rudolph became king of Burgundy in 888. The last member of the Burgundian group was King Rudolph III of Burgundy, who died childless in 1032.
The oldest known member of the Swabian group was Welf I, a count in Swabia who was first mentioned in 842. According to legend, Welf I was a son of Conrad, son of Welf, the ancestor of the Burgundian group. This relationship is considered probable because both Conrad and Welf I were counts of Linzgau and Alpgau. The relationship between Welf I and all later members of the Swabian group (Welf III and his relatives) is, again, known only through legend. The elder House of Welf became extinct when Welf III, Duke of Carinthia, died childless in 1055. The property of the House of Welf was inherited by a branch of the House of Este that came to be known as the younger House of Welf.
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Notable members of the Burgundian group
Welf (father of Judith)
Judith (died 843)
King Rudolph I of Burgundy
King Rudolph II of Burgundy
King Conrad I of Burgundy
Gisela of Burgundy
Adelaide of Italy
King Rudolph III of Burgundy
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Notable members of the Swabian group
Welf I
Saint Conrad of Constance
Welf III, Duke of Carinthia
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