Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameHenry VON SCHWEINFURT Count Of Schweinfurt, 30G Grandfather
FatherBerthold VON BABENBERG Margrave Of Bavaria (~915-980)
MotherHeliksuinda VON WALBECK (-1015)
Spouses
1Gerberge VON HENNEBERG Countess Of Kitzinggau, 30G Grandmother
FatherOtto Count Of Tullfeld (->1008)
Web Notes notes for Henry VON SCHWEINFURT Count Of Schweinfurt
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. of Henrik, marquis of Schweinfort. Their first child, Otto, was born in 1042. On page 693, under the Dukes of Swabia, under the entry for Hermann II, it is stated that Hermann's daughter, Gerberga, m. Heinrich, count of Schweinfort (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 of the Nordgau, in alliance with Bohemia and Poland, the King realized the necessity of erecting a safer defence for the heart of the country on both sides of the Main than Otto I and Otto II had succeeded in creating in the margravate of the Nordgau. With this in view Henry II destroyed the power of the Schweinfurt family and, in 1007, set up in its place on the upper Main the new bishoprick of Bamberg . . . "
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 of the Nordgau, in alliance with Bohemia and Poland, the King realized the necessity of erecting a safer defence for the heart of the country on both sides of the Main than Otto I and Otto II had succeeded in creating in the margravate of the Nordgau. With this in view Henry II destroyed the power of the Schweinfurt family and, in 1007, set up in its place on the upper Main the new bishoprick of Bamberg . . . "