Werner OF WORMSGAU
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Werner OF WORMSGAU (899?-935?)

Name: Werner OF WORMSGAU 1
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 0899 (app)
Occupation Count of Wormsgau
Group/Caste Membership Salian Dynasty
Death 0935 (app) (age 35-36)

Marriage

Spouse (unknown)
Children Conrad OF LORRAINE (922?-955)

Individual Note

Werner V, count in the Nahegau, Speyergau and Wormsgau (c. 899 – c. 935) is the first definite progenitor of the Salian Dynasty of German kings.

 

His father was Count Werner IV and his mother was a sister of king Conrad I of Germany. He married Hicha of Swabia, daughter of Burchard II, Duke of Swabia and Regilinde of Swabia. Their only son was Conrad the Red.

 

SOURCES:

Andreas Thiele: Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte Band I, Teilband 1, 1993

Rüdiger E. Barth: Der Herzog in Lotharingien im 10. Jahrhundert. 1990

Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln Neue Folge Band I. 1, 19982

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 52, 45-18; 179, 192-19.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_(Salian).