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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) 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 .
- 11th century
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 ...
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Welf VI. remained tied to the Welf power center of Altorf (Weingarten)-Ravensburg until his death in 1191. The son of his older brother, Heinrich the Lion (1129-1195), outlived Welf VI. by only about four years. Consequently, duke Welf VI., under Heinrich the Lion, was the senior member of the Welf House.
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 or Chronica Altorfensium.[2]
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.
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.
