Welf (father of Judith)

Welf I ( † 3 September of unknown year ) is provable ancestor of the dynasty of the Guelphs and occupied in the year 819 when Count. He was married to the Saxon Heilwig that is (ie well after his death) referred to 826 as Abbess of Chelles.

His rise began with the two marriages he joined for his two daughters with members of the family of the Carolingians: The older Judith married Emperor Louis the Pious, while the younger Hemma whose son Louis married the Germans.

Welf and Heilwig had at least four children:

• Judith, † April 9 843; ∞ February 819 Emperor Louis the Pious, † June 20 840 ( Carolingian )
• Rudolf I, † January 6 866, 829 testified, 849 Abbot of Jumièges, 856 abbot of Saint -Riquier, 866 Count of Ponthieu, buried in Saint- Riquier, ∞ Hruodun ( Roduna ) † after 867
• Conrad I ( † 21 September after 862 ), 830 " dux nobilissimus " 839 - after 849 Count in Argengau, 839 Count in Alpgau, 844 Count in Linzgau, 849 Count of Paris, after 860 Count of Auxerre, ∞ Adelheid 841 -866 testified, daughter of Hugo Count of Tours ( Etichonen ) and Bava ( she remarried beginning 864 Robert the Strong (le Fort ) ), Count of Tours and Paris ( Capetian, Robertiner ), † September 15 866
• Hemma (* 808, † 31 January 876 ), ∞ 827 Louis the German, King of the East Franks 843