Welf II, Count of Swabia

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Template:Infobox nobility Welf II (c. 960/70Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". - died 10 March 1030) was a Swabian count and a member of the Elder House of Welf.

Life

He was a younger son of Count Rudolf II and Ita, a daughter of Duke Conrad I of Swabia of the Conradine dynasty.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He constructed a castle at Ravensburg.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

In the 1020s, Welf feuded with the Augsburg and Freising bishops.[1] He pillaged the treasury of Bishop Bruno of Augsburg, brother of Emperor Henry II, and sacked the city of Augsburg.[2]

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.[3] The next year he joined a rebellion launched by the Babenberg duke Ernest II of Swabia, but finally submitted in 1027.[4] He died, probably in captivity, in 1030.[5] He was buried at Weingarten Abbey.[6]

Marriage and issue

Welf II was married to Imiza, daughter of Count Frederick of Luxembourg.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". With Imiza, Welf had at least two children:

  • Welf, Duke of Carinthia (Welf III; d. 1055)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Kunigunde of Altdorf (also called Chuniza; c. 1020 – 31 August 1054)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Sources

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  • 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.

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, pp. 121ff.
  2. ↑ Reuter, Germany, p. 204.
  3. ↑ Reuter, Germany, p. 203.
  4. ↑ Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich, pp. 77f.
  5. ↑ Zotz, 'Welf II.,' col. 2144.
  6. ↑ Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, p. 123.

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