Frederick of Büren ( 1053) was a count in northern

Swabia Swabia ; , colloquially ''Schwabenland'' or ''Ländle''; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany. The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of ...

and an ancestor of the imperial

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., nn. 8 & 9. The name Frederick of Büren is known only from the ''Tabula Consanguinitatis'', a Staufer genealogy drawn up by the monk

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in the mid-12th century. Wibald writes that Frederick of Büren was the son of an unspecified Frederick and the father of Duke Frederick I of Swabia, "who built Stauf", the castle from which the family later took its name.

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, in his ''Gesta'' of the Emperor

Frederick Barbarossa Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (; ), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 115 ...

, records that Duke Frederick I was descended "from the most noble counts of Swabia" without naming them. Büren is usually identified with Wäschenbeuren and Frederick with the count of the same name who appears as a witness in a charter of 1053. Also appearing in that charter is the

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, who it is speculated may have been Frederick of Büren's father, since the title of count palatine in Swabia is later found with Frederick of Büren's second son,

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. Wäschenbeuren lies not far from Stauf. Frederick's stature in Swabia and neighbouring

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is proved by his advantageous marriage. He married , a niece of

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. It is generally thought that the Staufer acquired

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through this marriage. Besides the aforementioned sons, Frederick and Louis, Frederick and Hildegard had a son named , who became

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, and a daughter named Adelaide, who was the mother of Bishop

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., s.v. Genealogical chart II, "Staufer". This family tree places Frederick of Büren's death before 1054 and also names his son Frederick of Büren.

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