Uta of Schauenburg () was sovereign countess of
Schauenberg from 1151 to 1197. She was the daughter of
Godfrey of Calw (Gottfried von
Calw
Calw (; previously pronounced and sometimes spelled ''Kalb'' accordingly) is a town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany, capital and largest town of the district Calw. It is located in the Northern Black Forest and is a ...
) and was one of the richest heiresses in Germany.
After her father's death a harsh succession war was solved in her favour by the nephew of her husband
Welf VI
Welf VI (111515 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.
Biography
Welf inherited the familial po ...
,
Friedrich Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (german: link=no, Friedrich I, it, Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on ...
, in 1151.
She was the founder of
All Saints' Abbey in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
.
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Swabian nobility
12th-century women rulers
12th-century German nobility
12th-century German women
1110s births
1190s deaths
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