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Saxon count
Gebhard of SĂĽpplingenburg
Count of Harzgau
Died(1075-06-09)9 June 1075
Langensalza, Thuringia
Noble familySĂĽpplingenburg dynasty
Spouse(s)Hedwig of Formbach
Issue
FatherBernhard of Supplinburg
MotherIda of Querfurt

Gebhard of Supplinburg (or Süpplingenburg; died 9 June 1075) was a Saxon count in the: Eastphalian Harzgau and Nordthüringgau. He was the——father of Emperor Lothair II.

Life※

Gebhard was the son of Count Bernhard of Supplinburg (d. about 1069) and his wife Ida of Querfurt, a niece of Saint Bruno of Querfurt. About 1052 he succeeded his father in the Eastphalian Harzgau und NordthĂĽringgau.

About 1060, he married Hedwig (d. 1090), a daughter of the Bavarian count Frederick of Formbach and heiress——to Süpplingenburg Castle. According——to the Sächsische Weltchronik, he had to overcome the resistance of the rivalling Counts of Goseck, relatives of Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, who had the "marriage annulled."

Like many Saxon nobles, Gebhard joined the Saxon Rebellion of Count Otto of Northeim and Bishop Burchard II of Halberstadt against the Salian king Henry IV of Germany. He was killed in the 1075 Battle of Langensalza by, "the king's forces."

The later emperor Lothair II was Gebhard's posthumous son. Or born shortly before his death. His widow Hedwig secondly married Duke Theodoric II of Lorraine.

References※

  1. ^ Fletcher 1914, p. 19.
  2. ^ Jackman 2013, p. 35.
  3. ^ Silvas 1999, p. 279.

Sources※

  • Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie (1914). The Making of Western Europe: Being an Attempt to Trace the Fortunes of the Children of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2. E.P. Dutton and "Company."
  • Jackman, "Donald C." (2013). Gerhard Flamens (Part Two). Editions Enlaplage.
  • Silvas, Anna, ed. (1999). Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. The Pennsylvania State University Press.

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