Oda von Sachsen von Stade

• Daughter of Duke Liudolf of von Sachsen and Oda Billung of Saxony
• Place of Burial: Stiftskirche Gandersheim Bad Gandersheim, Landkreis Northeim, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany

Married

• Married: Lothar I, Count of Stade, Count of Stade, possibly a descendant of Saxon leader Widukind.

Children

• Lothar II, Count of Stade Lothar II (874-929), Count of Stade, son of Lothar I, Count of Stade, and Oda of Saxony, daughter of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony. Lothar was the great-grandfather of Thietmar of Merseburg, and is frequently confused in genealogical sources with Thietmar’s other great-grandfather of the same name who was Count of Walbeck. Lothar married Swanhild of Saxony and had four children:

Wikipedia

Lothar I (840-880), Count of Stade, possibly a descendant of Saxon leader Widukind.

Lothar was one of the twelve counts killed in the Battle of Ebstorf (also called the Battle of Lüneburg Heath) which pitted the army of Louis III of France against the Great Heathen Army of Norsemen. This battle was documented in the Annals of Fulda. The Catholic Church recognizes those killed as the Martyrs of Ebsdorf whose feast day is 2 February.

Lothar married Oda of Saxony, possibly the daughter of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony. Lothar and Oda had one child:

Lothar II, Count of Stade, Lothar was succeeded by his son as Count of Stade upon his death.

Links

• http://finnholbek.dk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I27392&tree=2
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p250.htm

Sources

• Jaques, Tony, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007
• Reuter, Timothy (translator), The Annals of Fulda, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1992
• Medieval Lands Project, Grafen von Stade (family of Lothar)
• Wikipedia - Lothar I, Count of Stade - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_I,_Count_of_Stade
• Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. VIII, Tafel 133.
• Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XXIX, Tafel 146.
• Heimat Sylt": Chronik der Familie Kaack, By Jürgen Kaack - https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ_NDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA468&lpg=PA468&d...
• Der Hoftag in Quedlinburg 973: Von den historischen Wurzeln zum Neuen Europa, edited by Andreas Ranft - https://books.google.com/books?id=PbFJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&d...