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Welf II, Count of Swabia

Welf II, Count of Swabia

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Welf II (c. 960/70 - died 10 March 1030) was a Swabian count and a member of the Elder House of Welf.

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Life

He was a younger son of Count Rudolf II and Ita, a daughter of Duke Conrad I of Swabia of the Conradine dynasty.[1] He constructed a castle at Ravensburg.[1]

In the 1020s, Welf feuded with the Augsburg and Freising bishops.[2] He pillaged the treasury of Bishop Bruno of Augsburg, brother of Emperor Henry II, and sacked the city of Augsburg.[3]

Welf opposed the election of the Salian count Conrad II as King of the Romans in 1024 because it did not suit his interests, but he had to eventually relent.[4] The next year he joined a rebellion launched by the Babenberg duke Ernest II of Swabia, but finally submitted in 1027.[5] He died, probably in captivity, in 1030.[6] He was buried at Weingarten Abbey.[7]

Marriage and issue

Welf II was married to Imiza, daughter of Count Frederick of Luxembourg.[1] With Imiza, Welf had at least two children:

Sources

  • Freed, John B. (2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press.
  • Dick, Madelyn Bergen (2001). "Welfs". In Jeep, John M. (ed.). Routledge Revivals: Medieval Germany (2001): An Encyclopedia. Routledge.
  • F-R. Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich des ersten Salierkaisers (Regensburg 1998).
  • Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
  • B. Schneidmüller: Die Welfen. Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819–1252). (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 119–123.
  • A. Thiele, Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte Band I, Teilband 1 (Frankfurt/Main 1993).
  • T. Zotz, 'Welf II.,' in: Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA), Volume 8 (Munich, 1997), cols. 2143–2144.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Freed 2016, p. 13.
  2. [2]
    Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, pp. 121ff.
  3. [3]
    Reuter, Germany, p. 204.
  4. [4]
    Reuter, Germany, p. 203.
  5. [5]
    Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich, pp. 77f.
  6. [6]
    Zotz, 'Welf II.,' col. 2144.
  7. [7]
    Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, p. 123.
  8. [8]
    Dick 2001, p. 804.
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