Lothar II, Count of Stade

{{Short description|German aristocrat, Count of Stade}}

Lothar II (874-929), Count of Stade, son of Lothar I, Count of Stade, and Oda of Saxony, daughter of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony. Lothar was the great-grandfather of Thietmar of Merseburg, and is frequently confused in genealogical sources with Thietmar’s other great-grandfather of the same name who was Count of Walbeck.

Lothar died fighting the Slavs in the Battle of Lenzen, as did Lothar I, Count of Walbeck.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTaDwAAQBAJ&dq=Lothar+I%2C+Count+of+Stade&pg=PA431 Rosik, Stanisław. The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th-Century German Chronicles, Brill, 2020, p. 39] {{ISBN|9789004331488}} Thietmar describes his great-grandfathers (called Liuthar in his Chronicon), as “distinguished men, the best of warriors, of illustrious lineage, and the honour and solace of the homeland.”

Lothar married Swanhild of Saxony and had four children:

• Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade
• Gerburg von Stade
• Siegfried I, Count of Stade

Upon his death, Lothar was succeeded as Count of Stade by Wichmann I the Elder.