Agnes von Waiblingen (1072-1143) - Find a Grave Memorial

German Nobility. The Duchess of Swabia and Margravine of Austria, she was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich IV from the Salian house and his first wife Bertha of Turin. In 1079 she was given to Friedrich I of Staufen, Duke of Swabia and founded with this marriage the claims of the Staufer family for the german throne. The marriage was executed in 1086. Two of their children were Friedrich II, father of Friedrich Barbarossa and the German King Conrad III. Her husband died in 1105 and she married Margrave Leopold III of Austria, later known as "the Pious" or "the Saint". Until a few years ago it was assumed, that in her first marriage, that lasted 18 years, she only gave birth to 3 children and in her second marriage she had 18 children in 12 years. Now it is assumed that she gave birth to 10 children in her first marriage. 12 of them survived her. Despite these 21 births and she reached the high age of 70.

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