Marriage and Children
By his wife Richenza, probably of the Billung dynasty, widow of Count Herman III of Werl, he had four sons and three daughters.
- Henry the Fat (1055–1101), Margrave of Frisia (1055–1101)
- Otto II, Count of Nordheim
- Siegfried III (1050–1107), Count of Boyneburg
- Kuno (1150/60–1103), Count of Beichlingen
- Ida, married Thimo of Wettin, was mother of Conrad, Margrave of Meissen
- Ethelinde (born 1160, date of death unknown), married Duke Welf I of Bavaria in 1062, divorced 1070; married Herman I, Count of Calvelage in 1070
- Mathilde, married Count Konrad II of Werl-Arnsberg
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