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Personal data Burkhard I van Zwaben 

  • He was born in the year 855.
  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Burchard I van Zwaben (855/860 - 23 november 911) was een van de grondleggers van het hertogdom Zwaben.
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    Burchard was graaf van de Thurgau (groter dan het huidige kanton) en de Baar (de Bertoldsbaar?), en was rond 900 de machtigste man in Zwaben. In 904 werd hij daarbij voogd van de Abdij van Lorsch en in 909 markgraaf van Rhetië. Bij die gelegenheid werd hij hertog van Zwaben genoemd maar strikt genomen bestond die functie in deze tijd nog niet. Na Burchards dood werd paltsgraaf Erchanger de eerste formele hertog, overigens daartoe door de adel uitgeroepen en niet door de koning benoemd. Dat Burchard hertog werd genoemd betekent vermoedelijk niet meer dan dat hij onbetwist de machtigste edelman van de Schwabische stam was.

    Burchard kwam in conflict met paltsgraaf Erchanger van Zwaben en bisschop Solomon van Konstanz en de abt van St Gallen, die behoorden tot de partij van koning Koenraad I. Hij werd samen met zijn broer Adalbert gevangengenomen, door de Schwabische landdag veroordeeld op grond van hoogverraad. Burchard werd gedood door een edelman Anselm.

    Burchard was vermoedelijk getrouwd met Liutgard van Saksen (haar tweede huwelijk). Deze aanname is alleen gebaseerd op het gegeven dat de vrouw van Burchard Liutgard heette en op het gegeven dat van Aschaffenburg eerst van Liutgard was en daarna deel uitmaakt van het erfgoed van de familie van Burchard
  • (Levens event) .Source 2
    Burchard I (died 5 or 23 November 911) was the duke of Alamannia from 909 to his death and margrave of Rhaetia, as well as count in the Thurgau and Baar. Born between 855 and 860, he was the son of Adalbert II, count in the Thurgau. He himself married Liutgard of Saxony.

    By 900, Burchard was already the most powerful man in Swabia. In 904, he was the administrator of the lands of the abbey of Lorsch in Swabia. He succeeded, around 909, Ruadulf (a Welf) as dux or marchio (duke or margrave) of Raetia Secunda (the borderlands of Rhaetia). Burchard entered into a conflict with the Count Palatine Erchanger and Bishop Solomon III of Constance, who were loyal to King Conrad I. Burchard was captured and charged with high treason. He was found guilty by the tribal council and executed, along with his brother, Adalbert III of Thurgau. His son, Burchard II, and daughter-in-law, Regelinda, left for Italy, either exiled or taking refuge. Their Rhaetian estates were lost, though later recovered. Burchard I's second son, Odalric, had already died young.

    His daughter Dietpirch of Swabia (also known as Theoberga) married Hupald, Count of Dillingen (d. 909).[1] Their children included Ulrich of Augsburg.[2]

    The state of Swabia relative to the other stem duchies was highly disorganized at the time of Burchard I and he was never duke in the sense of the later dukes. He is usually called such only to distinguish him as the most powerful man in the duchy and the forerunner of the later dukes: the first being Erchanger, proclaimed duke by the nobility, but not the king, in 915.
  • He died on November 23, 911, he was 56 years old.
  • A child of Adalbart II "de Doorluchtige" van de Thurgau
  • This information was last updated on November 5, 2012.

Household of Burkhard I van Zwaben

He is married to Liutgard van Saksen.

They got married in the year 882, he was 27 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Dietpirch Theoberga  873-923 

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    2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard_I,_Duke_of_Swabia
    3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liutgard_of_Saxony

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