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Origins. The (Younger) House of Welf is the older branch of the House of Este, a dynasty whose earliest known members lived in Veneto and Lombardy in the late 9th/early 10th century, sometimes called Welf-Este. The first member was Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, also known as Welf IV. He inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his ...
Dec 21, 2017 · After a long siege the castle capitulated on 21 December after Conrad decisively defeated a relieving army commanded by Welf VI, a younger brother of Henry the Proud. Conrad, annoyed by how long ...
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).
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.
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.
Wulfhilde van Sachsen. When Wulfhilde van Sachsen was born about 1072, her father, Magnus Billung Herzog von Sachsen, was 29 and her mother, Sophia von Ungarn, was 28. She married Heinrich IX. 'der Schwarze' von Bayern from about 1095 to 1100, in Saxony, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters.
The words Guelf and Ghibelline are Italianized forms ( Guelfo, Ghibellino ) of the German Welf and Weibelungen. They are originated from the rivalry in twelfth-century Germany between the Welfs of Saxony and the dominant Hohenstaufens of Swabia (whose rallying cry was "Weibelungen," after a castle at Weibelung).
