Alaholfings

The Alaholfings (occasionally Ahalolfings) were a noble family of Alemannia in the Early Middle Ages. They were related to the previous rulers of Alemannia, to the Bavarian Agilolfings and to the Geroldings. Their original power base was around the upper Neckar and Danube rivers. They came to possess lands in not only Alemannia, but also in Bavaria, Franconia and Italy.

The Ahalolfings are divided into two groups, the older and the younger. It is not certain how the two groups are related. The older group descends from a Berthold who was the joint founder, with Hnabi, of Reichenau Abbey in 724. His most famous descendant was Cadolah, Duke of Friuli, who defended the Pannonian plains into Italy from the Avars.

Halaholf founded Marchtal Abbey as a proprietary monastery in the mid-8th century. His descendants gave it to the Abbey of Saint Gall in 776. In modern scholarship, the family is named after Halaholf, although in later generations the family's leading name was Berthold.

The younger branch of the family itself comprises two branches. Empress Richardis descends from Erchanger. Her sister married Berthold I and was the mother of the other branch of the family, which included the famous Erchanger, Duke of Swabia, and his brother Berthold II. The Ahalolfings died out when Berthold III died in 973, though the Zähringen may be descended from them.

The older AlaholfingersTo edit

   Berthold, Graf, 724 co-founder of the Reichenau Monastery (together with the Alemannic Duke Hnabi )
       Halalolfus (Alaholf), † before 776, count, founder of the Marchtal Monastery ; ⚭ Hildiberga
           Asulfus, testified in 776; ⚭ Hildilenda
               Daughters
           Agilolfus, Count in the Aulaulfisbaar; ⚭ Theotberga
           Ruthard von Allemannien (also called Chrodloh, Chrodhoch, Birchtilo, Pirarilo) 769/772 attests; ⚭ Raginsind / Reginswind, daughter of Germund von Pappenheim (also from Franconia) 769 and 802 attested
               Berthold (Perahtold), † August 10 between 804 and 813/815, 786–802 Graf in der Westbaar, Graf in Ostbaar; ⚭ Gersuinda (Gersind), daughter of Ascarius, † after November 17, 790 and before November 17, 797
                   Chadaloh I , ⚭ Starcfrid, † October 31, 819, 817–819 Margrave of Friuli
                       Berthold von Bussen in the Munterishuntare, † July 29 after 826, Count in the Ostbaar since 820
                   Paldebert (Perahtold, Pratoldus) attested in 790; ⚭ NN
                       Waldpert
                   Wago , Graf 805–820, ⚭ NN, daughter of a Prefect Werner I.?
                       Werner II., † after 866, 830–865 Count between Enns and Wienerwald
                   Ata, 797 nun
               Wolfinus, after 806 Count of Verona
               Tanchrat (Tanchras) * 760, +829, ⚭ 799 with Isolde von Burg Luwenosteyn * 778, +830, her father NN, father's brother Otrusto von Luwenosteyn attacked Steinikunecka Castle in 830 and murdered Adelinde * 822, +830, the daughter Tanchras of which two sons had Thanchrat * 814 +865 and Wilgam he was 95 years old his first ⚭ Iggelinde and second ⚭ Rebecca, from this second ⚭ his son comes Geroldus +946

The younger AlaholfingerTo edit

   Erchanger, Count Palatine
       Richardis , † September 18, probably 900, 887 Abbess of Andlau ; ⚭ 862 Charlemagne († January 13, 888 ), 881 Kaiser ( Carolingian )

   Berchthold I. Count Palatine in Swabia around 880, brother-in-law of Karl the Dicken , ⚭ NN of Swabia-Alsace, daughter of Count Erchanger (probably a sister of Empress Richardis)
       Kunigunde, * around 882, † February 7, 915?; ⚭ I Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria , † July 4, 907 ( Luitpoldinger ); ⚭ II 911 Konrad I German King, † December 23, 918 ( Konradiner )
       Berchtold II., † executed January 21, 917 , count in der Baar
           Adalbert, † X February 6, 954 , Count of Marchtal ,
               Berchthold, † 973/977, Duke of Marchtal
               Judith von Marchtal, † December 25th …; ⚭ Konrad, Count in the Rheingau and in the Ortenau , † probably 982 ( Konradiner )
       Erchanger , † executed on January 21 917 , Duke of Swabia autumn 915 - 917 , Pfalzgraf of Swabia, ⚭ Bertha, † after 917

Sources

• Reuter, Timothy (1991). Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman.
• Störmer, Wilhelm (1980). "Alaholfinger". Lexikon des Mittelalters, I: Aachen bis Bettelordenskirchen (in German). Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler. col. 263. ISBN 3-7608-8901-8.