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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
Otto was the son of the Lotharingian count palatine Ezzo (955–1034) and his wife Matilda (979–1025), [1] a daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu. [2] He was a member of the Ezzonian dynasty.
Gerberga married Herman II, Duke of Swabia in 988. [5] With Herman of Swabia, Gerberga had several children, including: Matilda of Swabia [6] Gisela, who became Queen consort of Germany then Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire. [6] Herman III, who succeeded his father in 1003, but died young, in 1012. [6] Berthold (992–993)
Adelaide was a daughter of the Bavarian margrave Diepold III of Vohburg (c. 1079 – 1146), probably from his first marriage with Adelaide (Adelajda; c. 1091 – 1127), a daughter of the Polish duke Władysław I Herman and Judith of Swabia.