Background
Bodo was the son of Count Henry of Stolberg and Elizabeth née Countess of Hohenstein.
Bodo was the son of Count Henry of Stolberg and Elizabeth née Countess of Hohenstein.
He ruled the counties of Stolberg in the southern Harz and Wernigerode in the northern Harz. Nothing is known about his youth. Perhaps he spent some time at a court of the Counts of Schwarzburg, possibly the one in the Sondershausen.
The first time Bodo is mentioned as acting alone, was when he acquired the imperial fief of Resperwenda in 1403.
After the last Count of Wernigerode died in 1429, Bodo acquired the County of Wernigerode in the northern Harz. Bodo died on 15 March 1455 and was buried on 17 March in the crypt of the Saint Martin"s Church in Stolberg.