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Welf II, Count of Swabia

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Welf II (c.960/70 – 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.[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:

Notes

  1. 123Freed 2016, p. 13.
  2. ↑Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, pp. 121ff.
  3. ↑Reuter, Germany, p. 204.
  4. ↑Reuter, Germany, p. 203.
  5. ↑Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich, pp. 77f.
  6. ↑Zotz, 'Welf II.,' col. 2144.
  7. ↑Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, p. 123.
  8. 12Dick 2001, p. 804.

Sources

  • Freed, John B. (2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press.
  • Dick, Madelyn Bergen (2001). "Welfs". En Jeep, John M. (ed.). Routledge Revivals: Medieval Germany (2001): An Encyclopedia . Routledge.
  • FR. Erkens, Conrado II. Herrschaft und Reich des ersten Salierkaisers (Ratisbona 1998).
  • Reuter, Timothy . Alemania en la Alta Edad Media 800–1056 . Nueva York: Longman, 1991.
  • B. Schneidmüller: Die Welfen. Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819-1252). (Stuttgart, 2000), págs.  119-123.
  • A. Thiele, Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte Band I, Teilband 1 (Frankfurt/Main 1993).
  • T. Zotz, 'Welf II.', en: Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA), Volumen 8 (Múnich, 1997), cols. 2143–2144.
  • Welf II, Graf von Altdorf (en alemán)