Siegfried Ier VON SPONHEIM

• Preferred Name: Siegfried Ier VON SPONHEIM^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: von Sponheim
  
• Gender: M
  
• Graf im Pustertal: BET 1048 AND 1065 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Comte de Pustertal
  
• Markgraf der Ungarnmark: BET 1045 AND 1065 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: 9CXC-QVJ
  
• Death: 5 JUL 1065 in Bulgarie at LATI: N2.75 LONG: E5.4 with note: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/GERMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#SiegfriedSponheimdied1065
  
• Nickname:
  
• Birth: 1020 in Sponheim, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany at LATI: N9.8516 LONG: E0.7104
  
• Burial: 1065 in Saint Paul, Lavanttal, Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria at LATI: N6.8652 LONG: E4.8127
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Siegfried I (c. 1010-7 February 1065) is considered the progenitor of the Carinthian ducal House of Sponheim (Spanheimer) and all of its lateral branches, including the Counts of Lebenau and the Counts of Ortenburg. He is documented as Count of Sponheim from 1044 and served as margrave of the Hungarian March in 1045/46 and as count in the Puster Valley and the Lavant Valley from 1048 until his death.
  
  «b»Descendance
  «/b»Siegfried was born at Sponheim Castle in Rhenish Franconia. Likewise Siegfried had a family relationship of unknown degree with Count Stephan I of Sponheim (d. ca. 1080), patriarch of the Rhenish branch of the Sponheim dynasty, which survives as the present-day Princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein.
  
  «b»Life«/b»
  In 1035 the Salian emperor Conrad II marched against the rebellious Duke Adalbero of Carinthia. In his attendance was Count Siegfried as his close companion, who thus arrived from Rhenish Franconia in the southeastern estates of the German kingdom. Adalbero was deposed and succeeded by the Salian duke Conrad the Younger in 1036.
  
  Siegfried married Richgard, the heiress of Count Engelbert IV in the Puster Valley from the Carinthian family of the Sieghardinger and Aribonids. Through the marriage with Richgard, he obtained large possessions in Tyrol and also in Carinthia, for example the Lavant Valley (in modern Austria) and probably also Laško and some other parts in the March of Carniola (in modern Slovenia) like the territories around Ljubljana.
  
  In the year 1044 he documents as ruling Count at Sponheim. In 1045 King Henry III of Germany granted Siegfried the territory of the Hungarian March at the eastern frontier of the March of Austria as a fiefdom. However, he kept and managed this land only for a short period. The Hungarian March was finally dissolved and incorporated under the rule of the Babenberg margrave Ernest of Austria from 1055.
  
  In 1048 Siegfried documents as a Gaugraf in the Tyrolean Puster Valley and in the Carinthian Lavant Valley; he must therefore have already succeeded to his father-in-law Count Engelbert IV as heir to this territory by then. He overtook likewise the possessions of his father-in-law in the Duchy of Bavaria. Besides he soon held the office of a Vogt (reeve) in the bishoprics of Brixen and Salzburg. Siegfried received likewise possessions in Lower Carinthia and in eastern Upper Bavaria.
  
  In 1064 Siegfried joined the pilgrimage of Archbishop Siegfried I of Mainz to Jerusalem. On his way back, one year later, he died on the transit through Bulgaria. There he was also buried, before his widow Richgard released the corpse and let him be buried in the parish church of Sankt Paul im Lavanttal he had planned and constructed.
  
  In the year 1909 the Siegfriedstrasse in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna was named after him.
  
  «b»Issue«/b»
  From Siegfried's marriage with Richgard Countess of Lavant Valley several children were born:
  
  1.) Engelbert I (d. 1096), succeeded his father as Count of Sponheim and Gaugraf in the Puster Valley and Lavant Valley, appointed Margrave of Istria in 1090; married Hadwig, possibly a daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony
  
  2.) Siegfried (d. 1070), married ?, supposedly not of equal birth, since there is no direct relationship of the descendants to further Sponheim counts
  
  3.) Hartwig (d. 1102), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1079
  
  4.) Hermann (d. 1118), Burgrave of Magdeburg from 1080
  
  Research by Friedrich R Wollmershhauser given to Sheldon Wimmer
  SIEGFRIED VON SPONHEIM, Count at Sponheim & Levanthal, g. 1000 in Spondheim, Rhineland,  01.02.1064 in Bulgaria, buries on 07.02.1064 in Bulgaria
  He considered an ancestor.
  
  http://www.geni.com/people/Siegfried-I-von-Sponheim-Graf-im-Pustertal/6000000002750141103?through=6000000003827315969
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_I,_Count_of_Sponheim

• m. 1040 in Sponheim,,Rheinland,Germany

1. Engelbert Ier VON SPONHEIM, b. 1045 in Kärnten, Autriche     d. 1 APR 1096 in Sankt Paul, Wolfsberg, Kärnten, Autriche

1. Title: Siegfried I von Sponheim, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL6-TN5V : 7 July 2020), Siegfried I von Sponheim, 1065; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL6-TN5V;
   
2. Title: Comte Siegfried von Sponheim
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponheim_family;
   
3. Title: SIEGFRIED, son of --- (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul)
   Author: FMG Projects/MedLands
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CARINTHIA.htm#EngelbertISponheimdied1096A;
   Note: SIEGFRIED, son of --- (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul). The Fundatio Monasterii Sancti Pauli in Carinthia names "comes Engelbertus ex patre Sigfrido Francorum civis, ex matre Rihkarda maiorum Karinthia primus", and in a later passage names "Sifridi natale solum Spanheimmense fuerat castrum, Richkart Laventinis oriunda" as parents of "Hartwic Magdeburgensis archiepiscopus"[591]. He was appointed Markgraf der Ungarischen Mark in 1045 until before 1048. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "intra fluvios Phiscaha et Litaha et Maraha" to "Sigefrido marchioni" by charter dated 7 Mar 1045[592]. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "inter flumina Litaha et Fiscaha…in comitatu Sigifridi marchionis" to "fideli nostro Reginoldo" by charter dated 3 Jun 1045[593]. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "iuxta alveum fluminis Danubii…contra Ungaricam plateam…villa Stillefride…" on the petition of "…Heinrici ducis Sigefrido marchioni" by charter dated 15 Jul 1045[594]. Graf im Pustertal 1048, maybe he was granted this county on losing the Markgrafschaft. "Heinricus…Romanorum imperator augustus" granted property "in pago Bvsterissa in comitatu Sigefridi comitis…Swarzenbahc…Aurina…" to Poppo Bishop of Brixen by charter dated 25 Jan 1048[595]. He died while returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The brothers Graf Engelbert and Hartwig Archbishop of Magdeburg transferred the remains of their mother Richgard from Spanheim to St Paul to be next to her husband Graf Siegfried, the document dated [1100] confirming that their father died while returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was first buried in Bulgaria and that their mother died while on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela[596]. m RICHGARD, daughter of --- (-Santiago de Compostela 9 Jul [1072], bur Spanheim, transferred [1100] to St Paul). The Fundatio Monasterii Sancti Pauli in Carinthia names "comes Engelbertus ex patre Sigfrido Francorum civis, ex matre Rihkarda maiorum Karinthia primus", and in a later passage names "Sifridi natale solum Spanheimmense fuerat castrum, Richkart Laventinis oriunda" as parents of "Hartwic Magdeburgensis archiepiscopus"[597]. Wegener assumes that she was Richgard, daughter of Engelbert Graf im Inn- und Norital [Sieghardinger] & his wife Liutgard --- because she named her son Engelbert[598]. However, the same reasoning could apply to any other contemporary member of the Sieghardinger family, in which the name Engelbert was commonly used. The necrology of Salzburg St Rudpert records the death "VII Id Jul" of "Rihkart coma"[599]. The brothers Graf Engelbert and Hartwig Archbishop of Magdeburg transferred the remains of their mother Richgard from Spanheim to St Paul to be next to her husband Graf Siegfried, the document dated [1100] confirming that their father died while returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was first buried in Bulgaria and that their mother died while on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela[600]. Graf Siegfried & his wife had four children: 1. ENGELBERT [I] (-1 Apr 1096). 2. HARTWIG von Sponheim (-17 Jun 1126). 3. [daughter . 4. HERMANN (-[22 Jul] 1118).
   Page: Source record for SIEGFRIED, son of --- (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul).
   
4. Title: SIEGFRIED (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul)
   Author: FMG Projects/MedLands
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/GERMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#SiegfriedSponheimdied1065;
   Note: 49. SIEGFRIED (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul). The Fundatio Monasterii Sancti Pauli in Carinthia names "comes Engelbertus ex patre Sigfrido Francorum civis, ex matre Rihkarda maiorum Karinthia primus", and in a later passage names "Sifridi natale solum Spanheimmense fuerat castrum, Richkart Laventinis oriunda" as parents of "Hartwic Magdeburgensis archiepiscopus"[593]. Markgraf der Ungarischen Mark 1045 until before 1048. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "intra fluvios Phiscaha et Litaha et Maraha" to "Sigefrido marchioni" by charter dated 7 Mar 1045[594]. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "inter flumina Litaha et Fiscaha…in comitatu Sigifridi marchionis" to "fideli nostro Reginoldo" by charter dated 3 Jun 1045[595]. "Heinricus…rex" granted property "iuxta alveum fluminis Danubii…contra Ungaricam plateam…villa Stillefride…" on the petition of "…Heinrici ducis Sigefrido marchioni" by charter dated 15 Jul 1045[596]. Graf im Pustertal 1048, presumably he was granted this county on losing the Markgrafschaft. "Heinricus…Romanorum imperator augustus" granted property "in pago Bvsterissa in comitatu Sigefridi comitis…Swarzenbahc…Aurina…" to Poppo Bishop of Brixen by charter dated 25 Jan 1048[597]. He died while returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The brothers Graf Engelbert and Hartwig Archbishop of Magdeburg transferred the remains of their mother Richgard from Spanheim to St Paul to be next to her husband Graf Siegfried, the document dated [1100] confirming that their father died while returning from pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was first buried in Bulgaria and that their mother died while on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela[598]. - GRAFEN von SPONHEIM.
   Page: Source record for SIEGFRIED (-[Bulgaria] 5 Jul 1065, bur [Bulgaria], transferred to St Paul).