Ancestral Trails 2016 » AGNES von WAIBLINGEN (1074-1143)

Personal data AGNES von WAIBLINGEN 

• She was born May 1074 in Klosterneuburg, Wien-Umgebung, Niederösterreich, Austria.

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (BERTHA von HOHENSTAUFEN) was born (??-??-1089) .

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1087) below 16 years (13).

• (Known as) : Agnes of Germany, Agnes of Poitou, Agnes of Saarbrucken.
• (Ancestry) : Salian Dynasty.
• She died on September 24, 1143 in Hohenstaufen, Goppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, she was 69 years old.
• She is buried in the year 1143 in Klosterneuburg Monastery, Wien-Umgebung Bezirk, Nieder.
• A child of HEINRICH von SAXONY and BERTHA de SAVOY

Household of AGNES von WAIBLINGEN

(1) She is married to FRIEDRICH von HOHENSTAUFEN.

They got married in the year 1087 at Hohenstaufen, Goppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, she was 12 years old.

Child(ren):

1. BERTHA von HOHENSTAUFEN  1089-1120 
2. Liutgard von SCHWABIA  1103-1146
3. FRIEDRICH von SCHWABIA  1093-1147 
4. Conrad von HOHENSTAUFEN  1095-???? 

(2) She is married to LEOPOLD von ÖSTERREICH.

They got married in the year 1106 at Klosterneuburg, Niederösterreich, she was 31 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Gertrude von BABENBERG  -1150 
2. AGNES von BABENBERG  1111-1157 
3. Heinrich von ÖSTERREICH  1113-1177 
4. JUDITH von BABENBERG  1115-1168 
5. Luitpold von OSTERREICH  ± 1108-1141

Notes about AGNES von WAIBLINGEN

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.

She was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bertha of Savoy. Her maternal grandparents were Otto, Count of Savoy, and Adelaide of Susa. Her brother was Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

First marriage
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. The couple married in 1086, when Agnes was fourteen. They had eleven children, 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
Hildegard
Conrad III of Germany
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)
Sophia, married a count Adalbert
Fides-Gertrude, married Hermann III, Count Palatine of the Rhine

Second marriage
Following Frederick's death in 1105, Agnes married Leopold III (1073-1136), the Margrave of Austria (1095-1136). 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. Their children were:

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
Elizabeth, 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 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, 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.
SOURCE; Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Waiblingen

The Duchess of Swabia and Margravine of Austria, she was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich IV from the Salian house and his first wife Bertha of Turin. In 1079 she was given to Friedrich I of Staufen, Duke of Swabia and founded with this marriage the claims of the Staufer family for the german throne. The marriage was executed in 1086. Two of their children were Friedrich II, father of Friedrich Barbarossa and the German King Conrad III. Her husband died in 1105 and she married Margrave Leopold III of Austria, later known as "the Pious" or "the Saint". Until a few years ago it was assumed, that in her first marriage, that lasted 18 years, she only gave birth to 3 children and in her second marriage she had 18 children in 12 years. Now it is assumed that she gave birth to 10 children in her first marriage. 12 of them survived her. Despite these 21 births she reached the high age of 70. (bio by: Lutetia)
Burial:
Klosterneuburg Monastery
Klosterneuburg
Wien-Umgebung Bezirk
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Austria
Maintained by: Find A Grave Record added: Jan 04, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 10214640

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