Oda from Werl

Oda von Werl (* around 1050; † January 13, 1110 ) was a noblewoman from the house of the Counts of Werl .

Her mother was Richenza von Schwaben , her father Count Hermann III. from Werl . Her stepfather was Otto von Northeim . She married Lothar Udo II , Count of Stade († May 4, 1082) and Margrave of the Nordmark . She is considered the ancestral mother of the Counts of Stade. Your sons Heinrich, Udo III. and Rudolf successively became Margraves of the Nordmark. Her daughter Adelheid von Stade (* around 1060, † 1110) became Countess von Goseck and Countess in Thuringia. Oda gave part of their Werler inheritance to the Archbishops of Cologne around 1102 .

progeny

Your children are:

• Henry I the Tall (around 1065 - June 27, 1087),
  • ⚭ Eupraxia of Kiev
• Lothar-Udo III. (* around 1070 - † June 2, 1106)
• Rudolf I († December 7, 1124)
  • ⚭ Richardis, daughter of Count von Sponheim -Lavanttal Hermann († July 22, 1118), from 1080 burgrave of Magdeburg , a brother of Archbishop Hartwig .
• Siegfried († around 1111), clergyman in Magdeburg
• Adelheid (around 1065 - October 18, 1110)
  • ⚭ 1.) Friedrich III. Count von Goseck († February 5, 1085)
  • ⚭ 2.) Ludwig the Springer of Thuringia (* 1042; † 1123)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Wolf (ed.): Royal daughter tribes. King Electors and Electors (Studies on European Legal History; Vol. 152). Klostermann publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-465-03200-4 , p. 11.

literature

• Paul Leidinger: The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980–1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803 . Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 , p. 139, p. 147.