- Adelheid of Vohburg
Adelheid of Vohburg (1122 - 1190) was the first Queen consort of
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor .Family
Adelheid was a daughter of
Diepold III, Margrave of Vohburg (d. 1146) and his second wife Kunigunde of Beichlingen.Her paternal grandparents were
Diepold II, Count of Cham (d. 1078) and Liutgarde ofZähringen . Diepold II was also Margrave of Nordgau. Her maternal grandparents wereKuno, Count of Beichlingen and Kunigunde of Weimar.Diepold II was a younger son of Diepold I, Count of Cham and his unnamed wife. Liutgarde was a daughter of
Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia and his first wife Richwara. Kuno was a younger son ofOtto of Nordheim andRichenza of Swabia . Kunigunde of Weimar was a daughter of Otto of Weimar, Margrave of Meissen and his wife Adela of Louvain.Diepold I was a son of Ratpoto II, Count of Cham. Richenza was a daughter of
Otto II, Duke of Swabia and Matilda von Egisheim. Otto of Weimar was a son of Wilhelm III, Count of Weimar and his second wife Oda of Ostmark. Adela was a daughter ofLambert II of Leuven and his wife Uda ofLotharingia .Ratpoto II was a son of Ratpoto I, Count of Cham. Matilda was a daughter of Hugo VI, Count of Nordgau and Egisheim by his wife Heilwig of Dagsburg. She was also a sister of
Pope Leo IX . Wilhelm III was a son ofWilhelm II, Count of Weimar (d. 1003), Margrave of Thuringia.Ratpoto I is lnown for donating property to the church of
Salzurg in 977. His donations were confirmed by a charter ofOtto III, Holy Roman Emperor , dated on7 October ,984 . He is considered the founder of a local dynasty, the Ratpotonen. Hugo VI was a son of Hugo V, Count of Nordgau. Heilwig was a daughter of Ludwig of Dagsburg. Wilhelm II was a son of Wilhelm I, Count of Weimar (d. 963) whose further ancestry is not known with certainty. There have been several contradictory theories on the subject.Hugo V was a son of Eberhard IV, Count of Nordgau and Liutgarde of Bidgau.
Eberhard IV was a son of Hugo III, Count of Nordgau and his wife Hildegard. Liutgarde was a daughter of Wigerich III, Count of Ardennes and Cunegundis.
Hugo III was a son of Eberhard III, Count of Nordgau. Uncertain relation to his predecessors. Cunegundis was a daughter of Ermentrude.
Ermentrude was reportedly a daughter of
Louis the Stammerer and his third wifeAdelaide of Paris .Marriages
In
Eger before2 March 1147 , Adelheid married Frederick of Swabia, son and heir ofFrederick II, Duke of Swabia and his wifeJudith of Bavaria One month later, on
6 April , her father-in-law died. Frederick became Frederick III, Duke of Swabia and Adelheid became his Duchess.Frederick also managed to be elected as the successor of his paternal great-uncle
Conrad III of Germany . He was crownedKing of Germany on4 March ,1152 . Adelheid became his Queen consort. However she remained childless and Frederick petitionedPope Eugene III for an annulment.The annulment was granted and confirmed in the city of
Konstanz on March 1153. The justification was given on grounds ofconsanguinity but this was a somewhat exaggerated application of the concept. One of the great-great-grandfathers of Frederick was reportedly a brother to one of her great-great-great-grandmothers. Which is not considered a particularly close blood relation.No longer a Queen, Adelheid proceeded to marry Dietho of Ravensburg, "welfische Ministerialer". Dietho died in 1180 or shortly before. Adelheid survive him and died between 1184-1190.
External links
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#AdelaVohburgM1FriedrichIEmp A listing of Margraves of Vohburg and their children]
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