In 1987 Eduard Hlawitschka quoted a source in which a daughter of count Liupold and Ida of Ottenberg was said to have married a king of Russians in 1072 (the year is probably misstated), through the good offices of Heinrich IV ("Rex Rittulorum filiam Livpaldi comitis et domine Ite de Oterisburc his temporibus rege Heinrico mediante uxorem duxit"). The source is an early 16th-century copy of annals compiled at St Gall abbey that had long been considered lost, thought to have been used ca 1100 by a continuator of another work written there. Hlawitschka said in 1987 that the text was soon to be published in an edition by Alois Schütz, but as far as I can tell this has not yet appeared in print. The entry quoted above has been taken to corroborate Albert of Stade's account that Oda, daughter of Ida of Elsdorf, married a Russian king. Hlawitschka identified "Oterisburc" as Ottersberg, ca 20kms south-west of Elsdorf (that is roughly half-way between Hamburg and Bremen). The 16th-century copy, in Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 2 Cod. 254, has been digitised and the entry can be seen here (on folio 17v): http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:37-dtl-0000000099. Ida's husband count Liupold is often identified as the eldest son of Adalbert the Victorious, margrave of Austria, though this is questionable. Peter Stewart

On 17/05/2017 9:51 PM, Peter Stewart wrote: > In 1987 Eduard Hlawitschka quoted a source in which a daughter of > count Liupold and Ida of Ottenberg Make that Ida of Ottersberg - goodness knows what my fingers were thinking. Peter Stewart