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Freeman-Smith History and Ancestry
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 Abt 0900 - 0947 (47 years)
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| Name |
LUITPOLDING Bertald |
| Birth |
Abt 0900 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
23 Nov 0947 |
| Notes |
- Berthold (c. 900 – 23 November 947), of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the younger son of Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria and Cunigunda, sister of Duke Erchanger of Swabia. He followed his nephew Eberhard as Duke of Bavaria in 938.
It is known that Berthold was a count in the March of Carinthia in 926, while his elder brother Arnulf the Bad was Bavarian duke. In 927, German King Henry the Fowler vested him with ducal rights in Carinthia. When, in 938, Arnulf's son and successor Eberhard tried to retain the autonomous status of the Bavarian duchy, he was removed and banished by King Otto I the Great, who appointed Berthold in his place.[1]
Unlike the powerful late duke Arnulf, Berthold was not given the right to appoint bishops or administer royal property, but he remained loyal to the Ottonian dynasty throughout his reign. In 943, he dealt defeat to the Magyars and staved off their attacks for a while, as Arnulf had done before him.
With Berthold's accession to the throne, Bavaria and the Carinthian march were once again united. After his death in 947, however, King Otto I the Great did not enfeoff Berthold's minor son Henry the Younger with his duchy, but instead gave it to his own brother Henry I, who had married Arnulf's daughter Judith. In 976, Henry the Younger received the severed Duchy of Carinthia in compensation.
Duke Berthold is buried at Kloster Niederaltaich (Niederaltaich Abbey).
Marriage and children
He even planned to marry Otto's sister Gerberga, widow of Duke Gilbert of Lorraine, and later Hedwige, another sister, but these plans fell through. Instead, he married Biltrude, a Bavarian noblewoman, about 939.
Sources
↑ Reuter, p 151
See also:
Cawley, Charles: Medieval Lands. Bavaria, Dukes. Berthold, Duke of Bavaria.
Reuter, T. (1991) Germany in the early middle ages c.800-1056 (Longman),
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| Person ID |
I59418 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Father |
NORDGAU Leopold, b. 0860, Schwaben, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany  d. 04 Jul 0907, Bratislava, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
SCHWABEN Kunigunde, b. Abt 0864 d. Abt 0918, Lörsch, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany (Age 54 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F25976 |
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