Welf

Ancestor of the Welfs.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 3 September, before about 825.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Baldwin discusses the evidence. Welf’s father is often given as Ruothard, count in Argengau, which Baldwin considers possible.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Heilwig (died 5 November, in or after 833).

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Demotz (p. 54), by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Baldwin.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Judith (died 19 April 843) married Louis the Pious, emperor.

Konrad (died 21 September, after 862), count in Argengau, count in Alpgau, count in Linzgau, count of Paris, count of Auxerre, married Adélaïde, daughter of Hugues, count of Tours.

Rudolf (died 6 January 866), count, abbot of Saint-Riquier and Jumièges, married Roduna.

Hemma (died 31 January 876) married in 827 Ludwig II “der Deutsche”, king of the Eastern Franks.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Welf” in The Henry Project.

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

Demotz, François. La Bourgogne, Dernier des Royaumes Carolingiens (Lausanne, 2008).

Schieffer, Theodor. “Judith” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), S. 639 f. [Onlinefassung].