Wirpirk of Tengling or Virpirka, Wilburga, Hildburga was the wife of
Conrad I of Bohemia
Conrad I of Brno (; died 6 September 1092) was the duke of Bohemia for eight months in 1092.
Life
He was the brother and successor of Vratislaus II (died 14 January 1092) as the third son of Bretislaus I and Judith of Schweinfurt. He did no ...
and the Duchess of Bohemia in 1092. She was the daughter of
Sieghard of Tengling.
Wirpirk married Conrad in 1054. By his marriage she had two children:
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Oldřich (or Ulrich), prince of Brno from 1092 to 1097 and from 1100 to his death on 11 November 1113
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Luitpold, prince of Znojmo from 1092 to 1097 and from 1100 to his death on 15 March 1113.
Conrad came to power over Moravia gradually. King
Vratislaus II of Bohemia
Vratislaus II (or Wratislaus II) ( cs, Vratislav II.) (c. 1032 – 14 January 1092), the son of Bretislaus I and Judith of Schweinfurt, was the first King of Bohemia as of 15 June 1085, his royal title granted as a lifetime honorific from Holy R ...
naturally did not like it and besieged
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
in 1091. But it came to rebellion in the royal army, led by King's son
Břetislaus. Wirpirk, reputedly on her own initiative, went to Vratislaus camp and asked for quarter for her husband and nephew.
In the end Vratislaus agreed that Conrad will be his heir (but Conrad ruled just only for a very short time due to his sudden death).
Literature
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Jaroslav Čechura, Jiří Mikulec, František Stellner. ''Lexikon českých panovnických dynastií''. Praha, 1996, p. 95.
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Duchesses of Bohemia
11th-century births
Year of death unknown