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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 of Swabia. Burchard took part in the early wars over Swabia. His family being from Franconia, he founded the convent of St Margarethen in Waldkirch to extend his family's influence into the Rhineland. [1]
About 882 Burchard married one Liutgard (possibly the Ottonian princess Liutgard of Saxony, widow of King Louis the Younger) and had the following children: Burchard II (d. 926), succeeded as Duke of Swabia in 917; Dietpirch of Swabia (also known as Theoberga) married Hupald of Dillingen (d. 909). Odalric, count in the Thurgau and Zürichgau ...
Erchanger Ahalolfing, dominant count in Alemannia after the execution of Burchard I, declared duke in 915, exiled September 916, executed January 917. Burchard II (917–926, Hunfriding), recognized Henry the Fowler as king of Germany in 919 and was recognized by Henry as Duke of Swabia in return. Hermann I (926–949, Conradine)
The Duchy of Swabia was proclaimed by the Ahalolfing count palatine Erchanger in 915. He had allied himself with his Hunfriding rival Burchard II and defeated King Conrad I of Germany in a battle at Wahlwies. The most notable family to hold Swabia were the Hohenstaufen, who held it, with a brief
Burchard III (c. 915 – 12 November 973), a member of the Hunfriding dynasty, [1] was the count of Thurgau and Zürichgau, perhaps of Rhaetia, and then Duke of Swabia from 954 to his death. [ 1 ] Life
From her first marriage to Burchard II, Duke of Swabia: Gisela, Abbess of Waldkirch (c. 905 – 26 October 923 /25) Hicha (c. 905 – 950), mother of Conrad the Red (uncertain) Burchard III (c. 915 – 12 November 973) Bertha (c. 907 – 2 January 961), mother of Adelaide of Italy; Adalrich, the holy monk in Einsiedeln (died in 973) (uncertain)
The county of Raetia Curiensis was absorbed into Alamannia in the early 10th century, as Burchard II at the time of the proclamation of the duchy also held the title of count of Raetia Curiensis. It comprised the Ringowe ( Rheingau ; Bregenz ), named for the Rhine , and Retia proper.
Bertha was the daughter of Duke Burchard II of Swabia and his wife Regelinda.In 922, she was married to the Burgundian king Rudolph II. [1] The Welf rulers of Upper Burgundy had campaigned the adjacent Swabian Thurgau region several times, and the marriage was meant as a gesture of reconciliation.