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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). Biography.
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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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.
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GUELFS AND GHIBELLINES. 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).
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 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.
