- Princess of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1st Marriage: Duchess of Swabia
- 2nd Marriage: Margravine of Austria
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Agnes of the Holy Roman Empire was born 1072 to Heinrich IV of the Holy Roman Empire (1050-1106) and Bertha de Savoie (1051-1087) and died 24 September 1143 Klosterneuburg of unspecified causes. She married Friedrich I. von Schwaben (c1050-1105) 1086 JL . She married Luitpold III. von Österreich (1073-1136) 1106 JL .
Agnes of Waiblingen (1072/73 – 24 September 1143), also known as Agnes of Germany, Agnes of Poitou and Agnes of Saarbrücken, was a member of the Salian imperial family. Through her first marriage, she was Duchess of Swabia; through her second marriage, she was Margravine of Austria.[1][2]
Family
She was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bertha of Savoy.[3]
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.
First marriage: Duke of Swabia
In 1079, aged seven, Agnes was betrothed to Frederick, a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty; at the same time, Henry IV invested Frederick as the new duke of Swabia.[4] The couple married in 1086, when Agnes was fourteen. They had twelve children, eleven of whom were named in a document found in the abbey of Lorsch:
- Hedwig-Eilike (1088–1110), married Friedrich, Count of Legenfeld
- Bertha-Bertrade (1089–1120), married Adalbert, Count of Elchingen
- Frederick II of Swabia[5]
- Hildegard
- Conrad III of Germany[5]
- Gisihild-Gisela
- Heinrich (1096–1105)
- Beatrix (1098–1130), became an abbess
- Kunigunde-Cuniza (1100–1120/1126), wife of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (1108–1139)[6]
- Sophia, married Konrad II, Count of Pfitzingen
- Fides-Gertrude, married Hermann III, Count Palatine of the Rhine[5]
- Richildis, married Hugh I, Count of Roucy
In 1127, Agnes' second son, Konrad III, was elected as the rival King of Germany by those opposed to the Saxon party's Lothar III. When Lothar died in 1137, Konrad was elected to the position.[1]
Second marriage : Margrave of Austria
Following Frederick's death in 1105,[7] Agnes married Leopold III (1073–1136), the Margrave of Austria (1095–1136).[8] According to a legend, a veil lost by Agnes and found by Leopold years later while hunting was the instigation for him to found the Klosterneuburg Monastery.[1]
Their children were:[9]
- Adalbert
- Leopold IV
- Henry II of Austria
- Berta, married Heinrich of Regensburg
- Agnes, "one of the most famous beauties of her time", married Wladyslaw II of Poland
- Ernst
- Uta, wife of Liutpold von Plain
- Otto of Freising, bishop and biographer
- Conrad, Bishop of Passau, and Archbishop of Salzburg
- Elisabeth, married Hermann, Count of Winzenburg
- Judith, m. c. 1133 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.[10]
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Heilika von Schwaben (c1087-1110) | 1087 | 1110 | Friedrich III. von Hopfenohe-Pettendorf-Lengenfeld (c1070-1119) |
| Bertrada von Schwaben (c1088-c1131) | |||
| Friedrich II von Schwaben (1090-1147) | 1090 | 6 April 1147 Alzey | Judith von Bayern (c1103-1131) Agnes von Saarbrücken (1115-aft1147) |
| Hildegardis von Schwaben (?-?) | |||
| Konrad III of the Holy Roman Empire (1093-1152) | 1093 Bamberg | 15 February 1152 Bamberg | Gertrud von Comburg (c1095-c1130) Gertrud von Sulzbach (1110-1146) Gerberga |
| Giselhildis von Schwaben (?-?) | |||
| Heinrich von Schwaben (?-bef1102) | |||
| Beatrix von Schwaben (?-aft1146) | |||
| Kunigunde von Schwaben (?-?) | |||
| Sophia von Schwaben (?-?) | |||
| Fides von Schwaben (bef1106-aft1182) | |||
| Richilde von Schwaben (c1100-c1147) | 1100 | 1147 | Hugues I de Roucy (c1090-1160) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Heinrich II. von Österreich (1107-1177) | 1107 | 13 January 1177 Vienna | Gertrud von Sachsen (1115-1143) Theodora Komnene (c1134-1184) |
| Leopold IV. von Österreich (1108-1141) | 1108 | 18 October 1141 Niederaltaich | Maria of Bohemia (c1124-aft1160) |
| Bertha von Österreich (?-c1150) | |||
| Agnes von Österreich (?-c1162) | 1108 | 1162 | Władysław II the Exile of Poland (1105-1159) |
| Ernst von Österreich (?-aft1137) | |||
| Otto von Freising (c1112-1158) | |||
| Konrad II. von Babenberg (c1115-1168) | |||
| Elisabeth von Österreich (?-1143) | |||
| Gertrud von Österreich (c1118-1150) | 1118 | 8 April 1150 | Vladislav II of Bohemia (c1110-1174) |
| Judith von Österreich (c1118-aft1168) | 1118 | 1168 | Guglielmo V del Monferrato (1100-1190) |
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Adelheid of the Holy Roman Empire (1070-1079) | August 1070 | 4 June 1079 | |
| Heinrich of the Holy Roman Empire (1071-1071) | August 1071 | 2 August 1071 | |
| Agnes of the Holy Roman Empire (c1072-1143) | 1072 | 24 September 1143 Klosterneuburg | Friedrich I. von Schwaben (c1050-1105) Luitpold III. von Österreich (1073-1136) |
| Konrad of the Holy Roman Empire (1074-1101) | 12 February 1074 Hersfeld Abbey, Germany | 27 June 1101 Florence, Italy | Constanze of Sicily (?-1138) |
| Heinrich V of the Holy Roman Empire (1086-1125) | 8 November 1086 | 23 May 1125 Utrecht | Matilda of Normandy (1102-1167) |
See Also
Bibliography
- 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).
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Agnes of Waiblingen
- Agnes of Waiblingen at thePeerage
- Agnes of Waiblingen, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Agnes-of-Waiblingen/6000000000146368622, retrieved 22 June 2023
- Ancestry of Dukes of Swabia, fmg.ac, https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWABIA.htm, retrieved 22 June 2023
References
- ^ a b c Wilhelm Muschka (22 May 2012). Agnes von Waiblingen - Stammmutter der Staufer und Babenberger-Herzöge: Eine mittelalterliche Biografie. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. p. 74. ISBN 978-3-8288-5539-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=ygN4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74.
- ^ Thomas Oliver Schindler (20 February 2003). Die Staufer - Ursprung und Aufstieg eines Herrschergeschlechts. Grin. https://www.grin.com/document/11046.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 266
- ^ Robinson, Henry, pp. 189, 223.
- ^ a b c Lyon 2013, p. 244.
- ^ Decker-Hauff, Zeit der Staufer, III, p. 350.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 330.
- ^ Robinson, Henry, p. 332.
- ^ Decker-Hauff, Zeit der Staufer, III, p. 346
- ^ (February 2013) "Molecular genetic investigations on Austria's patron saint Leopold III". Forensic Science International. Genetics 7 (2): 313–315. DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.10.012. PMID 23142176.