[Footnote 117: He was the son of Otho, the son of Ludolph,
in whose favor the Duchy of Saxony had been instituted, A.D.
858. Ruotgerus, the biographer of a St. Bruno, (Bibliot.
Bunavianae Catalog. tom. iii. vol. ii. p. 679,) gives a
splendid character of his family. Atavorum atavi usque ad
hominum memoriam omnes nobilissimi; nullus in eorum stirpe
ignotus, nullus degener facile reperitur, (apud Struvium,
Corp. Hist. German. p. 216.) Yet Gundling (in Henrico
Aucupe) is not satisfied of his descent from Witikind.]