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Richgard of Sponheim, or Richardis (died 1151), was the wife of Rudolf I of Stade, Margrave of the Nordmark, and mother of Udo IV, Rudolf II, Margrave of the Nordmark, Archbishop Hartwig of Magdeburg, Lutgard of Salzwedel, and Richardis von Stade.
Richardis was the daughter of Hermann von Spanheim , later Burgrave of Magdeburg; her mother is unknown.
In 1124, she, along with her husband and her relative Meginhard I, Count of Sponheim, endowed estates for the new Sponheim Monastery. [1] After her husband's death at the end of that year, she lived on estates in the vicinity of Magdeburg and Jerichow, Saxony, where she raised her young son, Hartwig. Richgard died in 1151.
Prior to the removal of her daughter Richardis from the monastery at Disibodenberg to become Abbess at Bassum, Hildegard of Bingen wrote to Richgard pleading to have Richardis allowed to stay at Disibodenberg. [2]
The following children were born from her marriage to Rudolf:
...und Graf Rudolf mit seiner Gattin Richgard dem Mainzer Erzbischof Adalbert I. eine Kirche in Sponheim zur Gründung eines Klosters...[...along with Count Rudolf and his wife Richgard, transferred a church in Sponheim to Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz for the establishment of a monastery...]