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Friderun av Rodegeresrod
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Friderun av Rodegeresrod Family/Spouse: Hodo av Zitice og Sermunt. Hodo died about 0993. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
Generation: 2
2. Hidda av Sermunt 
(1.Friderun1)Family/Spouse: Adalbert (Albrecht) av Ballenstedt, "Adalbert 1". [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 3. Eisicho (Esiko) av Ballenstädt was born about 1000; died after 1059.
- 3. Eisicho (Esiko) av Ballenstädt
Generation: 3
3. Eisicho (Esiko) av Ballenstädt (2.Hidda2, 1.Friderun1) was born about 1000; died after 1059. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Before 1059, Hartz, Niedersachsen, Tyskland; Greve av Ballenstedt.
Notes:
Occupation:
Esico av Ballenstedt regnes som stamfar til Askanierne, dvs det eldste kjente medlemmet av denne slekten.
Det vites lite om han, men han skal ha vært greve av Schwabengau og Harzgau med sete i Ballenstedt.
Nevnt som greve av Schwabengaues, Harzgaues, Hardagaues, av Nordthüringgaues og Gau Serimunt, såvel som namsmann (tysk: Vogt) av Hagenrode (ved Alexisbad) og Nienburg.
Som hans far regnes Adalbert 1 av Ballenstedt, men noen bevis finnes ikke. Det regnes med at han arvet eiendommene av Odo 1, markgreve av Sachsen Ostmark, som muligens var hans bestefar.
Escio døde trolig i 1060.
Barn:
Otto, Adalbert 2 og Adelheid.Family/Spouse: Mathilde av Werl. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. Albrecht (Adalbert) av Ballenstädt, "Adalbert 2" was born in 1030; died in 1080.
Generation: 4
4. Albrecht (Adalbert) av Ballenstädt, "Adalbert 2" (3.Eisicho3, 2.Hidda2, 1.Friderun1) was born in 1030; died in 1080. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Before 1076, Hartz, Niedersachsen, Tyskland; Greve og namsmann (Graf in Saxony and Vogt of Nienburg Abbey).
Notes:
Occupation:
Adalbert 2, Count of Ballenstedt (c.1030 – 1076/83) was a member of the House of Ascania and was Graf in Saxony and Vogt of Nienburg Abbey.
Adelbert was born at Ballenstedt in Eastphalia, the son of Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt and his wife Mathilde, probably a daughter of Duke Herman 2 of Swabia.
About 1068 he married Adelheid, daughter of Margrave Otto 1 of Meissen and his wife Adele. Their two sons were Otto the Rich and Siegfried of Orlamünde, later Count Palatine of the Rhine.
According to chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld, Adalbert supported Margrave Dedi 1 of the Saxon Eastern March in his 1069 conflict with King Henry 4. Dedi from the House of Wettin had married Adalbert's mother-in-law Adele, widow since 1067, and claimed the possessions of her deceased husband Otto of Meissen. Both had to surrender in short order, Adalbert however remained a fierce opponent of the king. From 1073 on he participated in the Great Saxon Revolt under Otto of Nordheim for which he was arrested in 1075. Even after his release he backed antiking Rudolf of Rheinfelden until he was finally killed in a feud at Westdorf near Aschersleben by one of Henry's liegemen.
Adalbert's widow married Count Palatine Hermann 2 of Lotharingia from the Ezzonid dynasty and – in her third marriage – Count Palatine Henry of Laach from the House of Luxembourg, father of her son Siegfried.Albrecht married Adelheid av Meissen in 1070. Adelheid (daughter of Otto av Meissen and Adele av Löwen) was born about 1055; died about 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 5. Otto av Ballenstädt was born about 1075; died on 09 Feb 1123.