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Frederick II, Count of Diessen

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Noble family
  
House of Andechs

Name
  
Frederick Count

Father
  
Frederick of Diesen

Parents
  
Frederick of Diesen

Mother
  
Hemma of Swabia

Children
  
Haziga of Diessen

Buried
  
Seeon Abbey


Spouse(s)
  
Hadamut of Eppenstein Irmgard of Gilching Tuta of Regensburg

Died
  
1075, St. Blaise Abbey, Black Forest, Sankt Blasien, Germany

Place of burial
  
Seeon Abbey, Traunstein, Germany

Grandchildren
  
Otto II, Count of Scheyern

Frederick II of Dießen (also known as Frederick I of Regensburg; 1005 – 1075) was a German nobleman. He is documented as bailiff (Vogt) of the Regensburg cathedral chapter in 1035. He is one of the earliest known ancestors of the Counts of Andechs.

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Life

His father was Count Frederick of Dießen (d. c. 1030), a relative of the legendary Bavarian count Rasso (d. 954), who administered the area around Dießen and Haching. His mother was Hemma, a daughter of Duke Conrad I of Swabia.

He became Domvogt of Regensburg in 1035. In 1055, he became Count in the Sempt area.

He died in 1075, as a lay brother in the Sankt Blasien Abbey in the Black Forest.

Marriages and issue

Frederick married three times:

  1. Hadamut (d. 1060), a daughter of Eberhard of Eppenstein. Together, they had one daughter:
  2. Haziga (c. 1040 – 1 August 1104), also known as Hadegunde, married Herman of Kastl and secondly Otto I, Count of Scheyern
  3. Irmgard of Gilching. Together, they had the following children:
  4. Uta, married Kuno of Rott, Count palatine of Bavaria
  5. Arnold (d. after 1091), succeeded his father as Count of Dießen
  6. Frederick, succeeded as Vogt of the cathedral chapter of Regensburg
  7. Meinhard (d. after 1070), succeeded as Count of Gilching
  8. Hemma
  9. Liutgard, married Count Adalbert I of Bogen
  10. Berthold, Count jure uxoris of Schwarzenburg
  11. Tuta, a daughter of the Vogt Hartwig I of Regensburg. This marriage was childless.

References

Frederick II, Count of Diessen Wikipedia