Lothair Udo II, Margrave of the Nordmark

Lothair Udo II
Margrave of the Nordmark and Count of Stade
Born	c. 1025
Died	1082(1082-00-00) (aged 56–57)
Family	Udonids
Spouse(s)	Oda of Werl
Issue	Henry I, Margrave of the Nordmark Lothair Udo III, Margrave of the Nordmark Rudolf I, Margrave of the Nordmark Siegfried of Stade Adelheid, Countess of Schauenburg and Thuringia
Father	Lothair Udo I, Margrave of the Nordmark
Mother	Adelheid of Rheinfelden

Lothair Udo II (c. 1025 – 1082) was

.

The power base of his family lay around Harsefeld and Stade, but through advantageous marriages, they had control of almost the entire eastern third of the Duchy of Saxony in lands and rights.

In 1044,

and Lothair Udo I died the same year. Lothair Udo II came into a very strong position and became margrave the next year.

Lothair initially placed himself in opposition to the

. In 1063, Adalbert annexed Stade from Lothair. Originally he had supported Lothair as a counterweight to Billung influence in Saxony, but military conflict soon broke out between the Udonids and the Billungs.

After Henry IV came of age in 1065, Lothair recovered his lost territories from the Billung and Adalbert, whose took a serious setback (1066). In 1068, Lothair was granted the March of Zeitz. In that year, he and Henry attacked the Liutizi along the Elbe, but in 1069 they called the expedition off in failure.

In 1071, Lothair was involved in the conspiracy of

against the king. They were defeated. Lothair immediately made peace with the king to allow his hostage son to go free. The rest of the Saxon nobles went through long negotiations.

Lothair was succeeded by his son

.

Marriage and issue

Lothair Udo married Oda of Werl, daughter of Herman III, Count of Werl, and his wife Richenza. (also Uda and Hilaria; b. ca. 1050), their children were:

• Henry I the Long, Margrave of the Nordmark and Count of Stade (as Henry III) (ca. 1065–27 June 1087), married Eupraxia of Kiev
• Lothair Udo III, Margrave of the Nordmark and Count of Stade (as Lothair Udo IV) (ca. 1070–2 June 1106)
• Rudolf I, Margrave of the Nordmark and Count of Stade (d. 7 December 1124), married Richardis,^[1] daughter of Hermann, Count of Sponheim-Lavanttal (d. 22 July 1118), since 1080 Burgrave of Magdeburg, brother of Archbishop Hartwig of Magdeburg.
• Siegfried (d. ca. 1111), Provost at Magdeburg
• Adelaide (Adelheid) (ca. 1065–18 October 1110), married (1) with Frederick III, Count of Goseck (ca. 1065–5 February 1085), also Count of Putelendorf and as Frederick III also Count Palatine of Saxony, and (2) with Louis the Jumper, Count of Schauenburg (near Friedrichroda, Thuringia; 1042–1123) also Count of Thuringia.

Lothair Udo was succeeded as margrave and count by his son Henry upon his death.

Notes

Sources

• Genealogie Mittelalter