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Birth:          ABT  869 of Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
Death:          4 Jul  907 Bratislava, Bohemia

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luitpold,_Margrave_of_Bavaria
Luitpold (or Liutpold) (modern Leopold) (died 4 July 907), perhaps of the Huosi family 
or related to the Carolingian dynasty by Liutswind, mother of Emperor Arnulf of 
Carinthia, was the ancestor of the Luitpolding dynasty which ruled Bavaria and 
Carinthia until the mid-tenth century.

In 893, he was appointed margrave in the March of Carinthia and Upper Pannonia by 
Arnulf of Carinthia, then King of East Francia. Luitpold succeeded the deposed 
Margrave Engelschalk II of the Wilhelminer family; unlike his predecessors he could 
extend his power unimpeded by the mighty Margrave Aribo, acquiring numerous 
counties in Carinthia as well as on the Danube and in the Nordgau around 
Regensburg from 895 on, and setting himself up as the most prominent of Bavaria's 
aristocracy. Though he thereby laid the foundations of the renewed stem duchy, it was 
his son Arnulf the Bad who, based on his father's acquisitions, first assumed the title 
of a Bavarian duke.

As Luitpold remained a loyal supporter of the Carolingian monarch Arnulf of Carinthia 
and his son Louis the Child, he enjoyed their support and was entrusted with the 
defence at the Hungarian and Moravian borders. In 898 he fought successfully 
against Mojmír II, the king of Great Moravia, on behalf of the king's rebellious brother 
Svatopluk II and forced Mojmír to become a vassal of Arnulf. In 903, Luitpold held the 
title of a dux Boemanorum, "Duke in Bohemia". He organised the Frankish defence 
against the Magyars under Grand Prince Árpád after invading Hungary, on 4 July 907 
was killed east of Vienna in the Battle of Pressburg.[1]

Marriage and issue[edit]

Luitpold married Cunigunde of Swabia, daughter of Berthold I, royal Count palatine in 
Swabia, and sister of Duke Erchanger of Swabia, a member of the Ahalolfing dynasty. 
After Luitpold's death Cunigunda married King Conrad I of Germany in 913. Luitpold 
had two sons by her:
Arnulf the Bad, Duke of Bavaria from 907 to 937 and
Berthold, Duke of Bavaria from 938 to 948.

From his descendants' titles, Luitpold is often called a duke of Bavaria or margrave of 
Bavaria, the latter title being more accurate to his actual status.


Marriage To OF SWABIA Cunigunde (ABT  878 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Berthold (ABT  840 - )
____ Gisela ()

Children by OF SWABIA Cunigunde ABT  878 - 
____ Arnulf "the Bad" (ABT  894 - 14 Jul  937)

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