Berengar I, count of Sulzbach

Events

Date of Birth: 1070 or 1071.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Landi.

Date of Death: 3 December 1125.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Dendorfer. Landi gives 11 November 1125.

Relationships

Father: Gebhard von Sulzbach.

This relationship is given by Dendorfer and by Landi, who argues that Gebhard was probably the son of Ernst II, duke of Swabia.

Mother: Irmgard von Rott.

This relationship is given by Dendorfer and by Landi.

Spouse: Adelheid von Frontenhausen.

This relationship is given by Dendorfer and by Landi.

Spouse: Adelheid von Wolfratshausen.

This relationship is given by Dendorfer and by Landi.

Children (by Adelheid von Wolfratshausen):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Gebhard (II) (died 28 October, about 1188), count of Sulzbach, married Mathilde of Bavaria.

Adelheid, abbess of Niedernburg.

Gertrud (died 14 April 1146) married Konrad III, duke of Swabia, king of Germany.

Bertha (died 28 September, 1159 or 1160) married Byzantine Emperor Manuel I. Bertha adopted the name Eirine after her marriage.

Luitgard married Godfried II of Lower Lorraine.

Mathilde married Engelbert II, margrave of Istria.

References

Dendorfer, Jürgen. “Die Grafen von Sulzbach” in Hochmittelalterliche Adelsfamilien in Altbayern, Franken und Schwaben (Studien zur bayerischen verfassungs- und Sozialgeschichte 20) Ferdinand Kramer/Wilhelm Störmer (Hgg.) (München: 2005) S. 179-212.

Landi, Walter. “Durch consanguinitas und amicitia: Genealogische und besitzgeschichtliche Anmerkungen zur Präsenz der Grafen von Morit im Sterzinger und Bozner Becken” in Antiquitates Tyrolenses. Festchrift für Hans Nothdurfter zum 75. Geburtstag. (Innsbruck: 2015) pp. 207-226.