Frederick II, Count of Diessen
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Frederick II | |
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| Count of Dießen | |
| Born | 1005 |
| Died | 1075 St. Blaise Abbey |
| Buried | Seeon Abbey |
| Noble family | House of Andechs |
| Spouse(s) | Hadamut of Eppenstein Irmgard of Gilching Tuta of Regensburg |
| Father | Frederick of Dießen |
| Mother | Hemma of Swabia |
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.
Life
[edit]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
[edit]Frederick married three times:
- Hadamut (d. 1060), a daughter of Eberhard of Eppenstein. Together, they had one daughter:
- Haziga (c. 1040 – 1 August 1104), also known as Hadegunde, married Herman of Kastl and secondly Otto I, Count of Scheyern
- 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
- Tuta, a daughter of the Vogt Hartwig I of Regensburg. This marriage was childless.