Judith (or Jutta, sometimes called ''Julitta'' or ''Ita'' in

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sources; c. 1115/1120 – after 1168), a member of the

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, was Marchioness of Montferrat from 1135 until her death, by her marriage with Marquess

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Life

Judith was a daughter of Margrave Leopold III of Austria (1073–1136), from his second marriage with Agnes (1072–1143), the only daughter of the Salian emperor Henry IV. During 1133, Judith married the Aleramici marquess William V of

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. The Aleramici were among the leading dynasties in the

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; William accompanied his nephew King Louis VII of France on the Second Crusade of 1147.

Marriage and issue

Judith and William had: *

William Longsword William Longsword (french: Guillaume Longue-Épée, nrf, Willâome de lon Espee, la, Willermus Longa Spata, on, Vilhjálmr Langaspjót; c. 893 – 17 December 942) was the second ruler of Normandy, from 927 until his assassination in 942.Det ...

(d. 1177),

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; father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem. *

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(d. 1192),

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Boniface of Montferrat Boniface I, usually known as Boniface of Montferrat ( it, Bonifacio del Monferrato, link=no; el, Βονιφάτιος Μομφερρατικός, ''Vonifatios Momferratikos'') (c. 1150 – 4 September 1207), was the ninth Marquis of Montferrat ( ...

(d. 1207); his successor to Montferrat and founder of the

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. *Frederick of Montferrat, Bishop of Alba *

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(d. 1183); married into the Byzantine imperial family. The marriage also produced three daughters: *Agnes of Montferrat (1202); married Count Guido Guerra III Guidi of Modigliana.Marco Bicchierai, ''Tegrimo Guidi'', in ''Dizionario biografico degli Italiani'', 61 (2004). The marriage was annulled on grounds of childlessness before 1180, when Guido remarried, and Agnes entered the convent of Santa Maria di Rocca delle Donne. * Adelasia (Azalaïs) of Montferrat (d. 1232); married Manfred II, Marquess of Saluzzo, c. 1182, and was regent for her grandson, Manfred III. *An unidentified daughter, who married Albert, Marquess of Malaspina. Judith was still living in 1168, but seems to have died before her husband went to the

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after their grandson Baldwin's coronation as King of Jerusalem in the 1180s.

Ancestry

References

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