Frederick I, Count of Zollern
# Frederick I, Count of Zollern

Frederick I, Count of Zollern (nicknamed Maute; died: before 1125), was often cited as a powerful Swabian Count and supporter of the imperial party of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

He most likely was the son of Burkhard $I,^{:XXIX}$ and was married to Udilhild (or Udahild) of the House of Urach (died: 11. April, $1134),^{:LXXXVII}$ which house later became the Fürstenberg family. They had nine $children;^{:LXXXVII}$ his eldest son was Frederick II. A younger son was Burkhard, who founded the Zollern-Hohenberg line (which became extinct in 1486).

Frederick was the first reeve of the Swabian Alpirsbach $Abbey,^{:LXXXVIII}$ which had been founded by Adalbert of Zollern (from the short-lived Zollern-Haigerloch line) and other $lords.^{:XXIX}$

The Zollern (later: Hohenzollern) dynasty based their rise to power on their loyalty to the ruling royal or imperial family. Frederick I served the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to France. He also accompanied Henry V on his Italian expedition in 1110 and again in 1111, where Henry V intended to claim the imperial crown in Rome. He is also mentioned as an advisor to Henry V in both 1111 and 1114, both times while the imperial party was in $Strasbourg.^{:XC}$

## Family and children

Frederick I and Udilhild most likely had at least nine $children:^{:LXXXVII}$

* Frederick II (died around 1143), Count of $Zollern^{:XLI}$
* Burkhard (died between 1150 and $1155),^{:XLI}$ also Burkhard II of Zollern-Hohenberg
* Egino
* Gotfried of Zimmern (most likely near $Hechingen)^{:XLII}$ (died between 1156 and 1160), likely Count of Zollern sometime around $1155^{:XLI}$
* Ulrich (died 1135 by poisoning), who late in life became a monk, then abbot, at the Benedictine abbey in Reichenau, after supposedly having been involved in the murder of his $predecessor^{:LXXXVIII}$
* Adalbert (or Albert), who became a monk in $Zwiefalten^{:XXXIII}$
* Kuno (?)
* Luitgard
* Udilhild
