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Henry Count of Schweinfurt, 9751017 (aged 42 years)

Name
Henry Count of /Schweinfurt/
Surname
Schweinfurt
Given names
Henry Count of
Family with parents
father
mother
himself
Family with Gerberga of Henneberg
himself
partner
daughter
daughter
Birth
975 60
Death of a father
Death of a maternal grandmother
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a mother
Death
8 September 1017 (aged 42 years)
Unique identifier
28163DFD682DF2428B6B18B2F113D4825B04
Last change
23 January 200719:13:57
Note

Notes
Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (149:22), (246A:22).
The "Dictionary of Royal Lineage", under the Dukes of Saxony on page 576,under the listing for Bernhard II, states that he married Eilika, d. ofHenrik, marquis of Schweinfort. Their first child, Otto, was born in1042. On page 693, under the Dukes of Swabia, under the entry for HermannII, it is stated that Hermann's daughter, Gerberga, m. Heinrich, count ofSchweinfort (d. 1017).

Page 35 of "The Orgins of Modern Germany" by Geoffrey Barraclough, states: "But the culmination of the process was reached under Henry II when,following the rebellion of Count Henry of Schweinfurt, the Margrave ofthe Nordgau, in alliance with Bohemia and Poland, the King realized thenecessity of erecting a safer defence for the heart of the country onboth sides of the Main than Otto I and Otto II had succeeded in creatingin the margravate of the Nordgau. With this in view Henry II destroyedthe power of the Schweinfurt family and, in 1007, set up in its place onthe upper Main the new bishoprick of Bamberg . . . "