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Little is known about the life of Count Hardrad, even from contemporary Frankish sources. In 771, the Cartulary of Lorraine, Abbey Gorze, identified a deceased Hardrad, father of Ratard (Rothard of the Argengau, father of Welf I of Bavaria), who could have been the father or
Argengau was a territory of Alemannia within East Francia in the 8th and 9th centuries, being a county in the 9th century, [1] and of the Duchy of Swabia in the 10th. It was situated north of Lake Constance, comprising Lindau. It was named for the Argen river. Later area divisions. Notes
Nevertheless, an early ancestor may have been the Frankish nobleman Ruthard (d. before 790), a count in the Argengau and administrator of the Carolingian king Pepin the Younger in Alamannia. The origin of the name Welf (also Guelph, from Italian: Guelfi) has not been conclusively established. A late medieval legend first documented in 1475 ...
The following is the family tree of the Spanish monarchs starting from Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon till the present day. The former kingdoms of Aragon (see family tree), Castile (see family tree) and Navarre (see family tree) were independent kingdoms that unified in 1469 as personal union, with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs, to become the Kingdom of Spain (de ...
Welf married Hedwig (Heilwig), [1] daughter of the Saxon count Isambart; Hedwig later became abbess of Chelles.The couple had the following children: Judith of Bavaria (c. 797 –843); married Louis the Pious, [1] who was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne.
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
The Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain (Spanish: Real Casa y Patrimonio de la Corona de España) was the institution of the Monarchy of Spain.It governed the organization of the Royal Spanish Court from the time of the Habsburg dynasty, which introduced the so-called Burgundian etiquette, up to the reign of King Alfonso XIII, great-grandfather of the current King Felipe VI, in ...
An entry in the king lists; reigned 30 years 510–522 Galan: Galan Erilich or Galany An entry in the king lists 522–530 Drest III: Drest son of Uudrost (or Hudrossig) 522–531 Drest IV: Drest son of Girom (or Gurum) An entry in the king lists 531–537 Gartnait I: Garthnac son of Girom, Ganat son of Gigurum 537–538 Cailtram