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Jutta of Thuringia

Jutta of Thuringia

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Jutta of Thuringia (1184 – 6 August 1235) was the eldest daughter of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia and his first wife, Sophia of Sommerschenburg,[1] a daughter of Fredrick II of Sommerschenburg.

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Before 1197, she married Margrave Dietrich I of Meissen.[2]

After her husband's death in 1221, she had a dispute with her brother, Landgrave Louis IV of Thuringia, who was very eager to act as regent and guardian for her three-year-old son Landgrave Henry III.

In 1223, she married her second husband, Count Poppo VII of Henneberg.[3]

Jutta of Thuringia died on 6 August 1235 in Schleusingen.

Marriages and issue

Children from her marriage to Dietrich I of Meissen:

  1. Hedwig (d. 1249) married Count Dietrich V of Cleves (1185–1260)
  2. Otto (died before 1215)
  3. Sophia (d. 1280) married Count Henry of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1262)
  4. Jutta
  5. Henry the Illustrious (1218–1288) Margrave of Meissen[4]

Children from her marriage with Poppo VII of Henneberg:

  1. Herman I of Henneberg (1224–1290)[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Ancelet-Hustache 1963, p. 38.
  2. [2]
    Rasmussen 1997, p. 63.
  3. [3]
    Lyon 2013, p. 243.
  4. [4]
    Holladay 2019, p. 232.
  5. [5]
    Ancelet-Hustache 1963, p. 254.

Sources

  • Ancelet-Hustache, Jeanne (1963). Gold Tried by Fire: St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Franciscan Herald Press.
  • Holladay, Joan A. (2019). Visualizing Ancestry in the High and Late Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lyon, Jonathan R. (2013). Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250. Cornell University Press.
  • Rasmussen, Ann Marie (1997). Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature. Syracuse University Press.
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