Welf Duke of Bavaria, Graf von Altdorf

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 166:23, Judith of Normandy, daughter of Richard III, Duke of Normandy and his wife Adele of France, married as her second husband Welf IV, Duke of Bavaria. According to Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Welf's wife Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Judith is the Granddaughter instead of daughter of Richard III, Duke of Normandy and Adele of France. Her mother Alénor was the daughter of Richard III and Adele of France. Alénor married Bauldwin IV, count of Flanders. ^160,1002

  Information about this person:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Dukes of Bavaria . ¹⁰¹⁹
Welf IV, son of Alberto Azzo II, Conte di Luni and his first wife Kunigunde von Altdorf, was installed in 1070 as Welf I, Duke of Bavaria by Heinrich IV, King of Germany. Welf married as his first wife, Ethelinde von Northeim, daughter of Otto I Graf von Northeim, Duke of Bavaria and his wife Richenza of Swabia. They were divorced in 1070. Welf's next wife was Judith de Flandre, widow of Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, daughter of Baldouin IV, Count of Flanders and his second wife Aléonor de Normandie. Welf and Judith were the parents of Welf II Duke of Bavaria and Heinrich IX "der Schwarze" Duke of Bavaria.

Welf married Judith of Flanders, daughter of Baudouin IV "Belle Barbe" comte de Flandres and Aliénor Comtesse de Normandy. (Judith of Flanders died in Mar 1094.)