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Liudolf

duke of Swabia
Also known as: Ludolf
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Liudolf (born 930—died Sept. 6, 957, Pombia, near Novara, Italy) was the duke of Swabia and son of the Holy Roman emperor Otto I, against whom he led a revolt. Liudolf, Otto’s son by his marriage to the English princess Eadgyth, was made duke of Swabia by his father in 950. In 952, feeling his inheritance rights threatened by Otto’s second marriage (to Adelaide of Burgundy) and by the influence of his uncle, Henry, duke...

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