Eticho (d. 910) Count in Ammergan and Breisgau

 In the second half of the 9^th century the west Frankish Welfs gained decisive influence on the policy of the Carolingian kings.  With the final destruction of the Frankish Empire after the downfall of Karl III. (839-888) around 888, Eticho's cousin, Rudolf I. (d. 912) from the Burgundy line of the Welfs, became king of Upper Burgundy.  However, the Burgundian Welfs then died out with Rudolf III. (d. 1032) in 1032.

The precise father-son succession of the West Frankish (south German) Welfs, the affairs of the estate, with properties and claims to the north and the south of the Alps, of the Alamanni were secured after confused beginnings under Eticho only at the time of Rudolf II. (d. 992) and Welf II. (d. 1030), thus about the time of the turn of the first millennium.

--Adapted from the website, Die Welfen

Sources

• Schneidmüller, Bernd.  In the catalog for the exhibition: "Heinrich der Löwe," Brunswick 1995.