Counts of Walbeck

Counts of Walbeck
First holder	Lothar I
Last holder	Conrad
Extinction date	1018
Seat(s)	Walbeck

The Counts of Walbeck ruled a medieval territory with its capital Walbeck northeast of Helmstedt in the present town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in Saxony-Anhalt. The foundation of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg established the region as firmly in the oversight of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor. The first Count of Walbeck, Lothar I, was great-grandfather of Thietmar, Prince-Bishop of Merseburg, chronicler of the Ottonian dynasty of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. Two of Thietmar’s great-grandfathers, both named Lothar, were killed in the Battle of Lenzen, pitting the forces of Henry the Fowler against the Slavs. The early Margraves of the Nordmark were descended from the House of Walbeck.

The Counts of Walbeck were:

After Conrad, the Counts of Walbeck transitioned to the Margraves of Nordmark (Northern March). Helperich, grandson of Conrad, is also listed as a Count of Walbeck, but the title was likely ceremonial.

Warner, David A., Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001

Heinrich, Leo : Lectures on the History of the German people and Reich, E. Anton, 1867.

Big, Walthe,: The Counts of Walbeck, Resin Magazine, 1952

Leyser, Karl, Medieval Germany and Its Neighbours 900-1250, The Hambledon Press, London, 1982

Bury, J. B. (editor), The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, Germany and the Western Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1922

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