sentences:  Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt
  
  Adalbert II of Ballenstedt ( – 1076/1083), an early member of the House of Ascania, was "Graf" (count) in Saxony and "Vogt" of Nienburg Abbey.Adelbert, first mentioned in a 1033 deed, was born at Ballenstedt Castle in the Saxon Schwabengau, the son of Count Esico of Ballenstedt (d. about 1060) and his wife Matilda, probably a daughter of Duke Herman II of Swabia.