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    Welf I or Welfo (died before 876) was a Swabian nobleman. He was a member of the Elder House of Welf. Welf was probably a son of Conrad I of Auxerre,...
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    sometimes called Welf-Este. The first member was Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, also known as Welf IV. He inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his...
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    Welf I (c. 1035/1040 – 6 November 1101) was Duke of Bavaria from 1070 to 1077 and from 1096 to his death. He was the first member of the Welf branch of...
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  • Linzgau Welf II, Count of Swabia, died 1030, supposed descendant of Welf I Welf, Duke of Carinthia (Welf III), died 1055, son of Welf II Welf I, Duke of...
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  • The Elder House of Welf (known as Rudolphins in Burgundy) was a Frankish noble dynasty of European rulers documented since the 9th century. Closely related...
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    is counted as Welf V. Welf was the oldest son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Judith of Flanders. In 1088 or 1089, when Welf was still a teenager...
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    Welf I (or Hwelf; died c. 825) is the first documented ancestor of the Elder House of Welf. He is mentioned as a count (comes) in the Frankish lands of...
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    unrelated dynasties.   Houses of Welf and Babenberg In 1070, Emperor Henry IV deposed Duke Otto, granting the duchy instead to Welf I, a member of the Italo-Bavarian...
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  • House of Welf assigns to Conrad and Adelaide an additional son, Welf I, a relationship considered probable. After her husband's death Conrad I, Count of...
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    1093. Her alliance with Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, prevented Henry's return to Germany until 1096 when he was reconciled with Welf. After Clement III's death...
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    Count Rudolph (or Rudolf) of Ponthieu (died 866) was a son of Welf (also Hwelf or Welf I) by Hedwig of Bavaria, and thus a brother of Judith of Bavaria...
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    and Judith, daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, from the rival House of Welf. Frederick, therefore, descended from the two leading families in Germany...
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    The original House of Este's elder branch, which is known as the House of Welf, included dukes of Bavaria and of Brunswick. This branch produced Britain's...
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  • the Bavarian ducal title, which had been granted to his former son-in-law Welf I, the divorced husband of Otto's daughter Ethelinde. According to Bruno,...
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  • Kunigunde of Altdorf, Welf I, founder of the Younger House of Welf. From his marriage with Gersende, Countess of Maine, Faulk I, still Margrave of Milan...
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    Maximilian I (17 April 1573 – 27 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597...
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  • Hedwig of Bavaria (category Elder House of Welf)
     778 – c. 835) was a Saxon noblewoman, abbess of Chelles, the wife of Count Welf, and mother-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious through his marriage to Judith...
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    opposed by Bavaria, especially by the ducal House of Welf. In the final conflict between the Welf and Hohenstaufen dynasties, Duke Henry the Lion was banned...
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  • Hugh of Tours. They had: Hugh Conrad the Younger Probably his son was also Welf I count of Alpgau and Linzgau in Swabia Reuter 1992, p. 43. Heidecker 2010...
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    Kunigunde (also called Chuniza), the daughter of Welf II, Count of Altdorf, in 1035/6. Azzo's son with Chuniza, Welf, moved first to Carinthia and then to Bavaria...
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  • German: Albrecht der Große; 1236 – 15 August 1279), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1252 and the first ruler of the newly...
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    the 17th to 20th centuries. Originating as a cadet branch of the House of Welf in 1635, also known then as the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Hanoverians...
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    [dubious – discuss] for in 1089 Countess Matilda married Duke Welf II of Bavaria, but Duke Welf I only died in 1101.[dubious – discuss] Concordat of Worms...
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    Judith of Flanders (died 1095) (category House of Welf)
    5 March 1095) was, by her successive marriages to Tostig Godwinson and Welf I, Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria. She was the owner of many...
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    Welf III (c. 1007 – 13 November 1055), the last male member of the Swabian line of the Elder House of Welf, was Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona...
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    Albert I, Duke of Lower Bavaria (German: Albrecht; 25 July 1336 – 13 December 1404), was a feudal ruler of the counties of Holland, Hainaut, and Zeeland...
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  • died after 1075) was the daughter of Otto of Northeim and the wife of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and Herman of Calvelage. Ethelinde was the oldest daughter...
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    Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (category House of Welf)
    Henry IX (1075 – 13 December 1126), was a member of the House of Welf, a powerful dynasty in medieval Germany. He was born around 1075 and died in 1126...
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  • Rudolf II, Count of Altdorf (category Elder House of Welf)
    the Elder House of Welf. He was the son of Rudolf I, count of Altdorf, son of Henry, son of Eticho count of Ammergau, son of Welf I. He was married to...
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    Welf II (c. 960/70 - died 10 March 1030) was a Swabian count and a member of the Elder House of Welf. He was a younger son of Count Rudolf II and Ita,...
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