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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 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. The originally Franconian family from the Meuse-Moselle area was closely related to the imperial family of the Carolingians . Origins.
- 11th century
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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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.
This bond went so far that Friedrich Barbarossa was sometimes closer to his uncle Welf VI. than to his uncle king Konrad III. (1093-1152) from the Hohenstaufen. After the Welfs had to surrender unwillingly the duchy of Bavaria in 1142, Welf VI. made war against the Staufer king Konrad III. over the forfeited duchy.
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.
Historia Welforum. Family tree of the Welfs from the Fulda manuscript of the Historia. 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.
