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Frederick II, Count of Diessen

Frederick II, Count of Diessen

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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. Irmgard of Gilching. Together, they had the following children:
    • Uta, married Kuno of Rott, Count palatine of Bavaria
    • Arnold (d. after 1091), succeeded his father as Count of Dießen
    • Frederick, succeeded as Vogt of the cathedral chapter of Regensburg
    • Meinhard (d. after 1070), succeeded as Count of Gilching
    • Hemma
    • Liutgard, married Count Adalbert I of Bogen
    • Berthold, Count jure uxoris of Schwarzenburg
  3. Tuta, a daughter of the Vogt Hartwig I of Regensburg. This marriage was childless.

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