Lothar I, count of Walbeck

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 5 September 929.

Place of Death: near Lenzen (Elbe).

The date and place are given by Althoff (G 112, p. 412) and by Warner (p. 49). The death is recorded by Lothar’s great-grandson Thietmar of Merseburg (1:10). Lothar died of wounds received in battle with the Redarii.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

At www.manfred-hiebl.de, it is suggested that Lothar was probably the son of a Lothar who died in 880.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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

Lothar II (died 964) married Mathilde von Arneburg.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Köningsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studien zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (Wilhelm Fink Verlag: München, 1984).

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

Lothar I at www.manfred-hiebl.de.

Thietmar of Merseburg. Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg. Warner, David A. translator and annotator.

Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi chronicon. Robert Holtzmann, ed. (Berlin 1935). (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 6, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova Series ; 9)