Agnes of Waiblingen
Agnes of Waiblingen | |
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Margravine consort of Austria | |
Born | 1072 |
Died | 24 September 1143 (aged 70–71) Klosterneuburg |
Noble family | Salian |
Spouse(s) | |
Issue |
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Father | Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor |
Mother | Bertha of Savoy |
Agnes of Waiblingen (1072/73 – 24 September 1143), also known as Agnes of Germany, Agnes of Franconia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, was a member of the
Family
She was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bertha of Savoy.[3]
First marriage
In 1079, aged seven, Agnes was betrothed to
- Frederick II of Swabia
- Conrad III of Germany
- Gertrud, who married Hermann III, Count Palatine of the Rhine [5]
- Heilika, who married Frederick III of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenche
- Richildis, who married Hugh I, Count of Roucy
In 1977, German genealogist and historian Hansmartin Decker-Hauff revealed the existence of several other children he claimed to have found in documents from the abbey of Lorch, the Staufers' family monastery. These claims were later exposed as forgeries.[6] Historian Heinz Bühler's suggestion that Berta of Boll, the wife of Count Adalbert of Elchingen-Ravenstein, was Agnes' and Frederick's daughter is purely speculative.[7]
Second marriage
Following Frederick's death in 1105,
Their children were:[10]
- Adalbert
- Leopold IV
- Henry II of Austria
- Berta, married Heinrich III, Burgrave of Regensburg
- Agnes, "one of the most famous beauties of her time", married Wladyslaw II of Poland
- Ernst
- Uta, married Luitpold I, Count of Plain
- Otto of Freising, bishop and biographer
- Archbishop of Salzburg
- Elisabeth, married Hermann, Count of Winzenburg
- William V of Montferrat. Their children formed an important Crusading dynasty.
- Gertrude, married Vladislav II of Bohemia
According to the Continuation of the Chronicles of Klosterneuburg, there may have been up to seven other children (possibly from multiple births) stillborn or who died in infancy.
In 2013, documentation regarding the results of DNA testing of the remains of the family buried in Klosterneuburg Abbey strongly favor that Adalbert was the son of Leopold and Agnes.[11]
In 1125, Agnes' brother, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, died childless, leaving Agnes and her children as heirs to the Salian dynasty's immense allodial estates, including Waiblingen.
In 1127, Agnes' second son,
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-8288-5539-7.
- ^ Thomas Oliver Schindler (20 February 2003). Die Staufer - Ursprung und Aufstieg eines Herrschergeschlechts. Grin. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 266
- ^ Robinson, Henry, pp. 189, 223.
- ^ Lyon 2013, p. 244.
- ^ Graf, Klaus (2010). "Der Mythos der Staufer – Eine schwäbische Königsdynastie wird erinnert und instrumentalisiert". Schwäbische Heimat. No. 61. pp. 296–306.
- ISBN 978-3-7995-4269-2.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 330.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 332.
- ^ Decker-Hauff, Zeit der Staufer, III, p. 346
- PMID 23142176.
Sources
- Lyon, Jonathan R. (2013). Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250. Cornell University Press.
- Karl Lechner, Die Babenberger, 1992.
- Brigitte Vacha & Walter Pohl, Die Welt der Babenberger: Schleier, Kreuz und Schwert, Graz, 1995.
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 45-24
- I.S. Robsinson, Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106 (Cambridge 2003).
- H. Decker-Hauff, Die Zeit der Staufer, vol. III (Stuttgart, 1977).