Agnes of the Palatinate (1201–1267) was a daughter of
Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Henry V, the Elder of Brunswick (german: Heinrich der Ältere von Braunschweig; – 28 April 1227), a member of the House of Welf, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1195 until 1212.
Life
Henry was the eldest son of Henry the Lion, Duke of Sa ...
and his first wife
Agnes of Hohenstaufen
Agnes of Hohenstaufen (1176 – 7 or 9 May 1204) was the daughter and heiress of the Hohenstaufen count palatine Conrad of the Rhine. She was Countess of the Palatinate herself from 1195 until her death, as the wife of the Welf count palati ...
, daughter of
Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Conrad of Hohenstaufen ( – 8 November 1195) was the first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine.
His parents were Frederick II of Swabia (1090–1147), Duke of Swabia, and his second wife Agnes of Saarbrücken, daughter of Frederick, Cou ...
. Agnes was
Duchess of Bavaria by her marriage to
Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Otto II (7 April 1206 – 29 November 1253), called the Illustrious (german: der Erlauchte), was the Duke of Bavaria from 1231 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1214. He was the son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wit ...
.
Family
Agnes was the youngest of three children born to her father by both of his marriages. Her father's second wife, also called Agnes, was the daughter of
Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia. Agnes' older sister was Irmgard, wife of
Herman V, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Herman V, Margrave of Baden (c. 1180 – 17 January 1243) ruled Verona and Baden from 1190 until his death.
He was the son of Herman IV and his wife Bertha of Tübingen. He married in 1217 to Irmengard, Countess Palatine by the Rhine (born 1 ...
and her brother was
Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Henry VI "the Younger" of Brunswick ( – 16 or 26 April 1214), of the House of Welf, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1212 to 1214.
Henry was born around 1196, the only son of Count Palatine Henry V and Agnes, daughter of Conrad, Count Palati ...
.
Marriage
Agnes married
Otto II
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red (''der Rote''), was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy. ...
at
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Places
*Worms, Germany
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when he came of age in 1222. With this marriage, the
Wittelsbach
The House of Wittelsbach () is a German dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including Bavaria, the Palatinate, Holland and Zeeland, Sweden (with Finland), Denmark, Norway, Hungary (with Romania), Bohemia, the Electorate o ...
family inherited
Palatinate and kept it as a Wittelsbach possession until 1918. Since that time also the lion has become a heraldic symbol in the coat-of-arms for Bavaria and the Palatinate.
In 1231 upon the
death
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of Otto's father,
Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Otto and Agnes became Duke and Duchess of
Bavaria
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.
After a dispute with Emperor
Frederick II was ended, Otto joined the
Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen dynasty (, , ), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family 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. The dynasty ...
party in 1241. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Frederick's son
Conrad IV
Conrad (25 April 1228 – 21 May 1254), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the only son of Emperor Frederick II from his second marriage with Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem. He inherited the title of King of Jerusalem (as Conrad II) up ...
. Because of this, Otto was excommunicated by the
pope
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.
Within thirty-one years of marriage, the couple had five children:
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Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
Louis the Strict (german: Ludwig der Strenge) (13 April 1229 – 2 February 1294) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. He is known as Louis II or Louis VI following an alternative numbering. Born in Heidelberg, h ...
(13 April 1229,
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
– 2 February 1294, Heidelberg).
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Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria
Henry XIII (19 November 1235 – 3 February 1290 in Burghausen), member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Lower Bavaria.
Family
He was the younger son of Otto II and Agnes of Brunswick.
Biography
In 1254, he succeeded his father tog ...
(19 November 1235, Landshut – 3 February 1290,
Burghausen).
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Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
Elisabeth of Bavaria (, Trausnitz Castle, Landshut, Bavaria – 9 October 1273, Goyen Castle, Schenna, Tyrol), a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Queen of Germany and Jerusalem from 1246 to 1254 by her marriage to King Conrad IV of ...
(c. 1227, Landshut – 9 October 1273), married to:
## 1246 in
Vohburg
Vohburg (Central Bavarian: ''Vohbuag an da Doana'') is a town in the district of Pfaffenhofen, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, 14 km east of Ingolstadt.
Famous persons
*Bertha of Vohburg
*Diepold III of ...
to
Conrad IV of Germany
Conrad (25 April 1228 – 21 May 1254), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the only son of Emperor Frederick II from his second marriage with Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem. He inherited the title of King of Jerusalem (as Conrad II) up ...
;
## 1259 in
Munich
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to Count
Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol,
Duke of Carinthia
The Duchy of Carinthia (german: Herzogtum Kärnten; sl, Vojvodina Koroška) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial Sta ...
.
# Sophie (1236, Landshut – 9 August 1289, Castle
Hirschberg), married 1258 to Count Gerhard IV of Sulzbach and Hirschberg.
# Agnes (c. 1240–c. 1306), a nun.
Otto died 29 November 1253. Agnes died fourteen years later in 1267. She is buried at
Scheyern
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First ...
.
Ancestry
References
Sources
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1201 births
1267 deaths
13th-century German women
House of Welf
House of Wittelsbach
Daughters of monarchs