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Personal data Burkhard II van Zwaben 

  • He was born in the year 885.
  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Burchard II van Zwaben (883 of 884 - Novara (stad), 29 april 926) was hertog van Zwaben.

    Burchards vader werd in 911 veroordeeld wegens verraad en ter dood gebracht. Burchard en zijn vrouw Regelind gingen daarop in ballingschap in Italië. In 913 kon Burchard terugkeren naar Duitsland en het beheer van zijn familiegoederen in Franken op zich nemen. Samen met graaf Erchanger (die een van de belangrijkste tegenstanders van zijn vader was geweest) en Arnulf I van Beieren vocht hij tegen de Hongaren. Daarne versloeg hij in 915 samen met Erchanger, koning Koenraad bij Stockach. Erchanger verwierf daardoor de positie van hertog van Zwaben. In 917 liet Koenraad Erchanger vermoorden, Burchard verwierf Erchangers bezittingen en werd hertog van Zwaben.

    In 918 stichtte Burchard het vrouwenklooster van Sint Margaretha in Waldkirch (Breisgau). Het volgende jaar moest Burchard zijn hertogdom verdedigen tegen een aanval door Rudolf II van Bourgondië die Zürich (stad) en Konstanz wist te veroveren. Burchard versloeg Rudolf bij Winterthur (stad) en wist daarna vrede met hem te sluiten. Burchard steunde dat jaar de koningsverkiezing van Hendrik de Vogelaar en kreeg van hem rechten om abten en bisschoppen te benoemen en belastingen te heffen. In 922 huwde hij zijn dochter uit aan Rudolf en nam in 924 deel aan diens veldtocht naar Italië. Tijdens die veldtocht sneuvelde Burchard bij een aanval op Novara dat door de bisschop van Milaan werd verdedigd.

    Burchard was een zoon van Burchard I van Zwaben en van Liutgard van Saksen. Burchard was getrouwd met Regelind van Zürich (ca. 890 - Zürich, 958). Regelind is begraven in de Kilianskapel op het kloostereiland Reichenau. Regelind was dochter van graaf Eberhard van Zürich (ca. 855 - voor 911) en Gisela (ca. 865 - na 911). Op grond van naamsverwantschap en familiebezittingen wordt vermoed dat Eberhard afstamde van de Etichonen (afstammelingen van hertog Eticho I). Gisela maakte in 911 als weduwe een bedevaart naar Rome maar werd onderweg van al haar bezittingen beroofd. Bij terugkomst werd zij met valse beschuldigingen geconfronteerd, als gevolg van de politieke verwikkelingen rond Burchard I. Zij schonk al haar bezittingen aan een verder niet nader bekende St Pietersabdij om te voorkomen dat die zouden worden geconfisqueerd nadat Burchard I wegens verraad was terechtgesteld.
  • (Levens event) .Source 2
    Burchard II (883/884 – 29 April 926) was the Hunfriding Duke of Swabia (from 917) and Count of Raetia. He was the son of Burchard I and Liutgard of Saxony.

    Burchard took part in the early wars over Swabia. His family being from Franconia, he founded the monastery of St Margarethen in Waldkirch to extend his family's influence into the Rhineland. On his father's arrest and execution for high treason in 911, he and his wife, Regelinda, daughter of Count Eberhard I of Zürich, went to Italy: either banished by Count Erchanger or voluntarily exiling themselves to their relatives over the Alps. Around 913, Burchard returned from exile and took control over his father's property. In 915, he joined Erchanger and Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, in battle against the Magyars. Then Burchard and Erchanger turned on King Conrad I and, at the Battle of Wahlwies in the Hegau, defeated him. Erchanger was proclaimed duke.

    After Erchanger was killed on 21 January 917, Burchard seized all his lands and was recognised universally as duke. In 919, King Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy seized the county of Zürich and invaded the region of Konstanz, then the centre and practical capital of the Swabian duchy. At Winterthur, however, Rudolph was defeated by Burchard, who thus consolidated the duchy and forced on the king his own territorial claims. In that same year, he recognised the newly-elected king of Germany, Henry the Fowler, duke of Saxony. Henry in turn gave Burchard rights of taxation and investiture of bishops and abbots in his duchy.

    In 922, Burchard married his daughter Bertha to Rudolph and affirms the peace of three years prior. Burchard then accompanied Rudolph into Italy when he was elected king by opponents of the Emperor Berengar. In 924, the emperor died and Hugh of Arles was elected by his partisans to oppose Rudolph. Burchard attacked Novara, defended by the troops of Lambert, Archbishop of Milan. There he was killed, probably on April 29. His widow, Regelinda (d. 958), remarried to Burchard's successor, Herman I. She had given him five children:

    Gisela (c. 905 – 26 October 923 or 925), abbess of Waldkirch
    Hicha (c. 905 – 950)
    Burchard III (c. 915 – 11 November 973), later duke of Swabia
    Bertha (c. 907 – 2 January 961), married Rudolph II, King of Burgundy
    Adalric (d. 973), monk in Einsiedeln Abbey
  • He died on April 29, 926 in Ivera, he was 41 years old.
  • A child of Burkhard I van Zwaben and Liutgard van Saksen
  • This information was last updated on June 13, 2012.

Household of Burkhard II van Zwaben

He is married to Reginlinde van Nellenburg.

They got married in the year 904, he was 19 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Hicha van Zwaben  905-950 
  2. Bertha van Zwaben  907-967 

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  1. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard_II_van_Zwaben
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard_II_of_Swabia
  3. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-onderzoek-vanuit-de-rupelstreek/I52353.php

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