He was first mentioned in a 1048 deed issued by the Salian emperor Henry III as a count in the Swabian Sisgau on the High Rhine (in present-day Northwestern Switzerland), an estate then held by the Prince-Bishopric of Basel.
Swabia | Grand Duchy of Lithuania | Duchy of Brabant | Duchy of Saxony | Duchy of Carinthia | Duchy of Burgundy | Duchy of Cornwall | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Duchy of Parma | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Duchy of Warsaw | Duchy of Prussia | Duchy of Jülich | Lorraine (duchy) | Grand Duchy of Baden | Duchy of Milan | Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Duchy of Lancaster | Duchy of Holstein | Duchy of Savoy | Duchy of Nassau | Duchy of Limburg | Upper Swabia | Duchy of Württemberg | Duchy of Pomerania | Duchy of Luxembourg | Philip of Swabia | Grand Duchy of Oldenburg | Duchy of Spoleto |
The eight 1,000-strong legiones (divisions) included three from Bavaria, two from Swabia, one from Franconia and one from Bohemia, under Prince Boleslav I.
; Swabia (909–1268) : The Thurgau-based Hunfridings first rose to the position of Dukes but soon lost the rule in their struggle with the Liudolfing kings.