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Discover life events, stories and photos about Fürst Ludwig von Hohenstaufen-Langenburg (1696–1765) of Baden, Achim, Hanover, Prussia, Germany.
- Ruling in Germany
- Frederick Barbarossa
- Henry Vi
- Philip of Swabia
- Frederick II
- End of The Staufer Dynasty
When the last male member of the Salian dynasty, Emperor Henry V, died without heirs in 1125, a controversy arose about the succession. Duke Frederick II and Conrad, the two current male Staufers, by their mother Agnes were grandsons of late Emperor Henry IV and nephews of Henry V. Frederick attempted to succeed to the throne of the Holy Roman Empe...
Frederick I, known as Frederick Barbarossa because of his red beard, struggled throughout his reign to restore the power and prestige of the German monarchy against the dukes, whose power had grown both before and after the Investiture Controversy under his Salian predecessors. As royal access to the resources of the church in Germany was much redu...
Frederick died in 1190 while on the Third Crusade and was succeeded by his son, Henry VI. Elected king even before his father's death, Henry went to Rome to be crowned emperor. He married Queen Constance of Sicily, and a death in his wife's family in 1194 gave him possession of the Kingdom of Sicily, a source of vast wealth. Henry failed to make ro...
Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place. Other factions however favoured a Welf candidate. In 1198, two rival kings were chosen: the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia and the son o...
Emperor Frederick II spent little time in Germany as his main concerns lay in Southern Italy. He founded the University of Naples in 1224 to train future state officials and reigned over Germany primarily through the allocation of royal prerogatives, leaving the sovereign authority and imperial estates to the ecclesiastical and secular princes. He ...
Conrad IV was succeeded as duke of Swabia by his only son, two-year-old Conradin. By this time, the office of duke of Swabia had been fully subsumed into the office of the king, and without royal authority had become meaningless. In 1261, attempts to elect young Conradin king were unsuccessful. He also had to defend Sicily against an invasion by Ch...
Judith Bertha (von Schwaben prinses) van Hohenstaufen was born in the year 1133 in Hohenstaufen, Schwaben, Beieren, Germany. She was married about 1141 to Mathieu I le Débonnaire de Haute-Lorraine, they gave birth to 1 child. She died on July 7, 1191 in Thühringen, Germany.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Ludwig II der Eiserne von Thüringen (1128–1172) of Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany.
- Male
- Judith Von Schwaben
May 27, 2024 · Genealogy for King Philipp von Hohenstaufen, herzogin von Schwaben (1177 - 1208) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Pavia, Lombardy
- Irini Maria Angelina
- Lombardy
The Hohenstaufen (/ˈhoʊənʃtaʊfən/ HOH-ən-shtow-fən, US also /ˌhoʊənˈʃtaʊfən, -staʊ-/ -S (H)TOW-fən, German: [ˌhoːənˈʃtaʊfn̩]), also called Staufer, was a noble dynasty of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079 and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254.
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Jun 25, 2010 · Portrait of Otto I, Count of Burgundy. Otto I (between 1167 and 1171 – January 13, 1200) was the Count of Burgundy from 1190 to his death and briefly Count of Luxembourg from 1196 to 1197. He was the fourth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy.
