Siegfried I (Luxembourg)

Siegfried I.

Count Siegfried I (* around 919; † probably October 28, 998 ) is considered the founder of Luxembourg .

Life

His mother was Kunigunde , daughter of Ermentrud / Irmintrud (around 875 / 8–930 / 40) , a daughter of the second marriage (around 875) of King Ludwig II of West Franconia , called the Stammler. His father is not proven beyond doubt.

Siegfried first appears around 950. At the time he was lay abbot at the Echternach monastery . He is documented as a Count in the Moselgau in 982 , as well as Vogt of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier and the Echternach Monastery. On April 17, 963, he acquired Lucilinburhuc Castle in what is now Luxembourg City on the Alzette as "Comes" (Count) in exchange for land in Feulen near Ettelbrück ( Sauer ) with the St. Maximin Monastery. Around 964 he inherited his half-brother, the "Ardennes count" Giselbert. In 964 he acquired land near Saarburg from Archbishop Heinrich of Trier, including the Inselberg , on which the Saarburg was located. In 984 he fought in the dispute over the succession of Emperor Otto II in Lorraine on the side of Otto III. , got into the captivity of the opposing side in the person of the West Franconian king Lothar . After his death in 986 Siegfried managed to escape. Siegfried is mentioned for the last time as alive on October 26, 997.

Marriage and offspring

Siegfried married Hadwig around 950/963 (* around 935/945; † December 13 after 993), whose origin is unknown. The couple had eleven witnessed children:

• Heinrich († 1026), Count in the Ardennes, Vogt of St. Maximin, 1004–1009 and 1017–1024 Duke of Bavaria
• Siegfried, attested in 985, perhaps ancestor of the Counts of Northeim (see there) - still controversial filiation
• Giselbert († 1004), Count in Moselgau
• Friedrich († 1019), Count in Moselgau, Vogt Stablo and Malmedy , Count in Hessengau
• Dietrich († 1047), Bishop of Metz
• Adalbero († after 1037) Elekt von Trier
• Liutgard († after 1005); ⚭ 980 Count Arnulf of Holland († 993) ( Gerulfinger )
• Kunigunde the saint († 1033); ⚭ 1001 Heinrich II. The Saint († 1024), Duke of Bavaria , 1002 German king , 1014 Emperor ( Liudolfinger )
• Eva († after 1029); ⚭ Gerhard Graf von Metz († 1021/23) ( Matfriede )
• Ermentrude, abbess
• Daughter ⚭ Count Thietmar

See also

• The German princely family of the Luxembourgers

literature

• Heinz Renn: The first Luxembourg count house. 1941.
• Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume I, Part 1, RG Fischer Verlag Frankfurt a. M. 1993, plate 66.
• Erich Brandenburg : The descendants of Charlemagne. Reprint 1998.
• Karl Ferdinand Werner : The descendants of Charlemagne up to around the year 1000 (1st-8th generation). Volume IV In: Wolfgang Braunfels : Charlemagne's life's work and afterlife.
• René Klein: Who were Count Siegfried's parents? A new hypothesis on the origin of the first Luxembourg count house. In: Luxembourg Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. Yearbook 1998. Association Luxembourgeoise de Généalogie et d'Héraldique, Annuaire 1998, pp. 9-27.
• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . Volume I.2 (1999) Plate 202/203.
• Eduard Hlawitschka : The ancestors of the high medieval German kings, emperors and their wives. An annotated table work. Volume I: 937-1137, 2 parts, 2006 ( MGH , auxiliaries 25, 1-2)
• Armin Wolf : Ancestors of German kings and queens. In: Herold Yearbook. New episode. 15th volume (2010)
• Michael Margue:  Siegfried I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Michel Pauly: History of Luxembourg. Munich 2011.
• Charles Cawley, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, on the web: www.fmg.ac.Luxembourg; is continuously updated.

Web links

• Entry on Siegfried I. in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Margue:  Siegfried I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ) .: 919; Hlawitschka: around 918/921; Brandenburg, p. 94: ca.922; Wolf, p. 106: 924/929, around 928
2. ↑ Schwennicke; “As of October 28, the Notae Necrologiae Coufenenses (Nekrolog of the Kaufungen Monastery ): Sigefridus Kunuz com. Father Chunigundis imperatoricis obiit. Since the mother and wife of Siegfried and a son of the couple also meet in the Merseburg Necrolog ..., the identification is well secured, especially since the count of the same name, registered in the Lüneburg Necrolog on October 26th, is referred to as occius ... "( Gerd Althoff : Adels- and royal families in the mirror of their memorial tradition. 1984, p. 420; the statement in Brandenburg, plate 5 p. 10 (August 15, 998) is wrong (Werner, p. 471).)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Werner, p. 471
4. ↑ Brandenburg, plate 5 p. 10, note p. 123; Werner p. 471
5. ↑ Schwennicke: attested 981 for St. Maximin, 997 for Echternach; Brandenburg, notes p. 123: testifies 974 for Echternach and 981 for St. Maximin; Werner: "Siegfried is verifiable as (lay) abbot of Echternach around 950, then as Vogt"
6. ↑ Brandenburg, Notes p. 123; on the date: Werner, p. 471; to Feulen: Thiele
7. ↑ Thiele
8. ↑ for evidence cf. corresponding article
9. ↑ Walter Mohr, History of the Duchy of Lothringen, Volume I, pp. 59–61.
10. ↑ around 950 (Hlawitschka, S: 214), 955/960 (Renn, p. 58), around 962/963 (or around 960) (Wolf, p. 106), before 964, probably around 950 (Brandenburg, p 94); the son Heinrich is first recorded on September 17, 964, but as the only one of his children
11. ↑ Wolf, p. 106
12. ↑ Schwennicke
13. ↑ according to Schwennicke
14. ↑ Wolf, p. 119

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Count of Luxembourg 963–998	Heinrich I.