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House. Welf. Father. Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria. Mother. Wulfhilde of Saxony. Welf VI (1115 – 15 December 1191) was the margrave of Tuscany (1152–1162) and duke of Spoleto (1152–1162), the third son of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, and a member of the illustrious family of the Welf (House of Guelph).
Historia Welforum. The Historia Welforum is an anonymous Latin prose chronicle of the House of Welf written around 1170. [1] The original covers the period c. 825 –1167, but continuations bring it down to 1208. Because two manuscript copies originate in Weingarten (Altdorf), the work is sometimes known as the Historia Welforum Weingartensis ...
The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconian family from the Meuse-Moselle area was closely related to the imperial family of the Carolingians .
The disenfranchised former duke Henry and his younger brother, Welf VI, went to war against Conrad. Henry the Proud died suddenly at the age of 31 in 1139, but Welf VI stepped forward to lead the rebellion. The Welf army ravaged Hohenstaufen lands, but they were decisively defeated at Weinsberg Castle in the County of Wurttemberg in December 1140.
The Battle of Flochberg (8 February 1150) was a victory for the royal forces of Henry (VI) of Germany over the House of Welf, led by Welf VI and his son, Welf VII. Henry's father, Conrad III , and Welf VI had gone on the Second Crusade together.
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Welf had forced him to abandon the cause of Henry IV and swear obedience to King Rudolf, The Swabian Chronicles, trans. Robinson, pp. 222, 296-7. 6 A house of Augustinian canons in the diocese of Freising, which Welf founded before 1090. 7 Welf IV died at Paphos in Cyprus on 8th or 9th November 1101, Ekkehard of Aura, in Frutolfs und Ekkehards
Welf III, the last male member of the Swabian line of the Elder House of Welf, was Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona from 1047 until his death. Welf VI was the margrave of Tuscany (1152–1162) and duke of Spoleto (1152–1162), the third son of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, and a member of the illustrious family of the Welf.
