Liudolf

duke of Swabia
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Also known as: Ludolf
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Also spelled:
Ludolf
Born:
930
Died:
Sept. 6, 957, Pombia, near Novara, Italy (aged 27)

Liudolf (born 930—died Sept. 6, 957, Pombia, near Novara, Italy) was the duke of Swabia and son of the Holy Roman emperor Otto I, against whom he led a revolt. Liudolf, Otto’s son by his marriage to the English princess Eadgyth, was made duke of Swabia by his father in 950. In 952, feeling his inheritance rights threatened by Otto’s second marriage (to Adelaide of Burgundy) and by the influence of his uncle, Henry, duke of Bavaria, Liudolf joined with Conrad the Red of Lotharingia and Frederick, archbishop of Mainz, to raise a rebellion in Germany. He exacted concessions from ...(100 of 129 words)