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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).
German noble (1115–1191) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Quick Facts Margrave of Tuscany, Reign ... Close. Biography.
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Cadet branches. House of Hanover. The possessions of the Welfs in the days of Henry the Lion. The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph [1]) 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.
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Welf Dynasty, dynasty of German nobles and rulers who were the chief rivals of the Hohenstaufens in Italy and central Europe in the Middle Ages and who later included the Hanoverian Welfs, who, with the accession of George I to the British throne, became rulers of Great Britain.
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Welf VI. (* 1115; † 15. Dezember 1191 in Memmingen) aus dem Geschlecht der Welfen, auch der Milde Welf genannt, war Markgraf von Tuszien ( Toskana) und Widersacher des staufischen Königs Konrad III. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 1.1 Welf VI. und Friedrich I. Barbarossa. 1.2 Erbvertrag und Tod. 1.3 Nachkommen. 2 Denkmal. 3 Bilder. 4 Quellen.
Henry IX (1075 – 13 December 1126), called the Black, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Bavaria from 1120 to 1126. Life and reign. Henry was the second son of Duke Welf I of Bavaria (died 1101) from his marriage with Judith, [1] daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders.
A dubious tradition relates that the terms Guelf and Ghibelline originated as battle cries (“Hie Welf!” “Hie Waiblingen!”) during Conrad III’s defeat of Welf VI of Bavaria in 1140 at the siege of Weinsberg.
