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Personal data Ida von Cham 

• She was born about 1058 in Cham, Oberpfalz, Bavaria.
• She died after 1101.
• A child of Rapoto IV Count of Cham and Mathilde of Kastl
• This information was last updated on August 22, 2023.

Household of Ida von Cham

She is married to Leopold II "The Fair" Margrave of Austria.

They got married about 1071.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth of Austria  ± 1081-????
2. Adelheid von Babenberg  ± 1082-± 1120 
3. Eufemie Princess of Austria  ± 1086-????
4. Leopold III "Saint" Margrave of Austria  ± 1075-1136 

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Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg on the tree
Ida depicted on the family tree (Genealogy of the Babenberg Ladies)
BornIda
c. 1055
DiedSeptember 1101
Heraclea Cybistra, Cilicia
Noble familyHouse of Babenberg
Spouse(s)Leopold II of Austria
Issue
DetailLeopold III, Margrave of Austria
FatherRapoto IV of Cham[disputed – discuss]
MotherMathilde
Ida of Austria (c. 1055 – September 1101) was a Margravine of Austria by marriage to Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army.[1]

Wife
Ida was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde.[disputed – discuss] She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.

In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the Bavarian dukes Welf IV and William IX, joined the Crusade of 1101,[1] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.

In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem, according to Albert von Aachen. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, as in Historia Welforum, but this is impossible on chronological grounds. However, Ekkehard of Aura's is probably the most likely version, as he is the only one who can rely on eyewitnesses who were survivors of the Battle of Heraclea Cybistra, whom Ekkehard met a few weeks later in Jaffa, while Albert von Aachen and the author of the Historia Welforum reported only after hearsay.

In fiction
Ida's fate is depicted in Beloved Pilgrim (2011) by Christopher Hawthorne.

Issue
Leopold III (1073–1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave
Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach
Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Bořivoj II of Bohemia
Ida, married the Přemyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo
Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein
Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and, secondly, Count Sieghard X of Burghausen
See also
Kilij Arslan II – who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion.
Family tree
Family tree of Ida
Casimir II the Just
Leszek I the White
12.Luitpold, Duke of Moravia
6. Conrad II of Znojmo
26. Leopold II, Margrave of Austria
13. Ida of Austria
27. Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
Helen of Znojmo
14. Grand Prince Uroš I of Serbia
7. Maria of Rascia
References
Steven Runciman: Geschichte der Kreuzzüge ('A History of the Crusades'). München 1978 (Sonderausgabe), p. 341.
Sources
Historia Welforum Weingartensis
Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades, Vol. II
Lechner Karl. Die Babenberger. Markgrafen und Herzoge von Österreich 976–1246, Böhlau Verlag Wien-Köln-Weimar 1992.
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Royal consorts of Austria
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Captive 1101 of Sultan Kilidj Arslan & put in Harem.

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