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Gertrude had two children: Henry Berengar (1136 or 1137 – 1150), [4] who in March 1147 was proclaimed co-king by his father, being crowned on 30 March 1147 in Aachen; Frederick of Rothenburg (1145–1167), Duke of Swabia from 1152, married 1166 Gertrude of Bavaria (d. 1196), daughter of Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony. [5]
The Dukes of Swabia were the rulers of the Duchy of Swabia during the Middle Ages. Swabia was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German kingdom, and its dukes were thus among the most powerful magnates of Germany. The most notable family to rule Swabia was the Hohenstaufen family, who held it, with a brief interruption, from 1079 ...
She had two children: Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (1122 – 10 June 1190), married on 9 June 1156 Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, by whom he had 12 children. Bertha (also called Judith) of Swabia (1123 – 18 October 1194/25 March 1195), married in 1138 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine, by whom she had seven children.
About 882 Burchard married one Liutgard (possibly the Ottonian princess Liutgard of Saxony, widow of King Louis the Younger) and had the following children: Burchard II (d. 926), succeeded as Duke of Swabia in 917; Dietpirch of Swabia (also known as Theoberga) married Hupald of Dillingen (d. 909). Odalric, count in the Thurgau and Zürichgau ...
Hermann III had no children, and the succession passed to Ernest II, son of his eldest sister Gisela and Ernest I, Margrave of Austria. Ernest I held the duchy for his son until his own death in 1015, when Gisela undertook the government, and was married a second time, to Conrad, duke of Franconia, who was afterwards the German king Conrad II.
Judith was a daughter of Duke Frederick II of Swabia (1090–1147) and his second wife Agnes of Saarbrücken, thereby a younger half-sister of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190). She first appeared in contemporary sources in 1150, upon her marriage with Landgrave Louis II of Thuringia.
With Gerberga, Herman had three children: [9] Gisela who was the wife of Emperor Conrad II [10] Matilda of Swabia who was the wife of Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine [11] Herman III, Duke of Swabia [10] Beatrice (?) (died after 25 February 1025), who was married to Adalbert of Eppenstein. [10]
She is often said to be Reglint (or Richlind), daughter of Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, and thus a granddaughter of Emperor Otto I. [3] Others argue that his wife was Judith, daughter of Adalbert of Marchtal. [4] When Duke Otto I unexpectedly died during the Imperial campaign in Italy of 981-982, he left no heirs.