Graf Ludwig I "der Bärtige" von Schauenburg

Emperor Konrad II of the privileges of Graf Ludwig "Cum-barba" as count in Thuringia, a document which is purportedly dated 1039 but which was a later 12th century forgery. According to the shorter Historia Brevis Principum Thuringiæ, which is presumably based on the Cronica and may have been written by the same author, Ludwig "Cum-barba" was "de Karoli et Ludewici regum Francorum stirpe oriundus". The same source states that Gisela, wife of Emperor Konrad II was "consanguineam" of this first Ludwig. This statement is repeated in more detail in the Cronica. Empress Gisela was the daughter of Hermann II Duke of Swabia, from the Konradiner family of Franconia. Her known descent from the Carolingian French kings was through her maternal grandmother, Mathilde daughter of Louis IV "d'Outremer" King of the West Franks, who was the second wife of Conrad I King of Burgundy.

The recorded history of Thuringia resumes in the early 11th century. Reconstruction of the family of the early counts and Landgrafen of Thuringia is heavily dependent on records written in the mid-13th century at the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn, which was founded by Graf Ludwig "der Springer" in the late 11th century.

second of Charles of Lorraine's three sons and the eldest by his second marriage to Adelaide, the daughter of a low-ranking vassal of Hugh Capet

around Schönrain besides Ludwig also the

Counts of Rieneck

Having lands and being closely related to Mainz and Fulda makes Ludwig's kinship with the Rieneckers likely.

The naming estate (Ludwig, Hugo) also becomes a kinship with

Hugo VI. from Egisheim or Ludwig von Mousson

considered, whereby also a 

kinship too Gisela from Swabia would result.

Ludwig married around 1039 Cecilia of Sangerhausen, the heir among others from Sangerhausen.

LUDWIG "Cum-barba", son of --- (-[1080], bur Mainz St Alban). Graf in Thuringia. The Cronica Reinhardsbrunnensis records that "Ludwicum dictum Cum-barba" came to Thuringia in 1034 and settled "in confinio silve que Loybe dicitur inter montem Katherberg et Aldinberg et Corneberg"[84]. The Cronica Reinhardsbrunnensis also quotes in full an alleged grant by "Chuonradus…Romanorum imperator augustus" to "Lodewico comiti consanguineus nostris" dated 27 Apr 1039 which is headed "Privilegium comitis Thuringie"[85]. In the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica compilation of imperial diplomas, this deed is classified as forged, the introduction stating that it was one of the Reinhardsbrunn forgeries of the second half of the 12th century[86]. The Historia Brevis Principum Thuringiæ records that "Ludewicus Cum-barba" was buried "Maguntie apud Sanctum Albanum"[87].

m CÄCILIE von Sangerhausen, daughter of ---. The Historia Brevis Principum Thuringiæ names "Ceciliam de Sangirhusen" as the wife of "Ludewicus Cum-barba"[88].

Graf Ludwig & his wife had five children.

- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_der_B%C3%A4rtige

Louis the Bearded or Ludwig with the beard (Latin Ludovicus cum barba, † 1056 or 1080) is the progenitor of the Ludowinger, the Landgrave dynasty in medieval Thuringia and Hesse.

Ludwig, who had a brother Hugo, comes from an unspecified noble family, which was in close relationship to the archdiocese Mainz and (also) on the middle Main (where Ludwig's sons founded the monastery Schönrain) was wealthy.

According to Armin Wolf (historian), a descent from Ludwig von Mousson comes into question[abandoned]

!? /!\ Louis (circa 980 – after 1012) was the second of Charles of Lorraine's three sons and the eldest by his second marriage to Adelaide, the daughter of a low-ranking vassal of Hugh Capet.

Unlike his elder brother Otto, who inherited their father's duchy of Lower Lorraine, Louis went with his father to France, where Charles fought for the French throne. They both were imprisoned, through the perfidy of Adalberon, Bishop of Laon, by Hugh at Orléans in 991, when Louis was still a child. His father died in prison in or by 993, but Louis was released. It was asserted by Ferdinand Lot that Louis's life after 995 or 1000 was completely unknown, but more recent research has shed some light upon it.

It was William IV of Aquitaine who sheltered Louis afterwards, from 1005 until 1012. He opened the Palace of Poitiers to him and treated him as royalty, regarding him as the true heir to the French throne. Louis even subscribed a charter of William's as Lodoici filii Karoli regis. Young Louis drifted, eventually to be utilised by Robert II, Archbishop of Rouen, who was plotting against the Capetians. Louis was imprisoned again, permanently, this time at Sens, where he died.

[edit] Sources

   * Gwatkin, H. M., Whitney, J. P. (ed) et al. The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 1926.

* Settipani, Christian. La préhistoire des Capétiens. 1993. ISBN 2-9501509-3-4
* Lewis, Andrew W. (1981). Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press