Heinrich, count in Wormsgau

Sometimes called Heinrich von Speyer.

Events

Date of Birth: about 965 - 970.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 316). Wolf gives about 970.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 28 March, between 990 and 1000.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 316), by Wolfram (p. 19), and by Wolf.

Place of Burial: Worms, Dom.

The place is given by Wolf.

Relationships

Father: Otto von Worms, duke of Carinthia.

This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Wolf, and by Glocker (p. 316).

Mother: Judith.

This relationship is given by Seibert and by Wolf.

Spouse: Adelheid.

This relationship is given by Appelt, by Hlawitschka, by Wolf, by Glocker (p. 316), and by Cawley. Cawley notes that Adelheid was either the daughter of Richard, count of Metz, or of his brother, Gerhard, and thus (presumably), the sister of Gerhard, count in Alsace.

Children:

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

Konrad II (about 990 - 4 June 1039), Holy Roman Emperor, married Gisela von Schwaben.

Judith (probably dead by 1000).

References

Appelt, Heinrich. “Konrad II.” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1979) S. 492-495 [Onlinefassung].

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. Ottonen genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Cawley, Charles. “HEINRICH” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

Seibert, Hubertus. “Otto von Worms” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998) S. 688 f. [Onlinefassung].

Wolf, Armin. Ahnen deutscher Könige und Königinnen: Alternativen zu dem Werk von Eduard Hlawitschka. 2010. Selbstverlag des Herold, Berlin.

Wolfram, Herwig. Conrad II 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).