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Judit Schweinfurt-házi Bajor őrgrófnő cseh hercegné



Preferred Parents:
Father:
Heinrich von Schweinfurt I, b. 970 in Unterfranken, Bayern, Allemagne   d. 18 SEP 1017 in Schweinfurt, Bavaria Germany
Mother: Gerberga von Henneberg, b. 970 in Gleiberg, Kreis Wetzlar, Hessen-Nassau, Prusse, Allemagne   d. 1036 in Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Allemagne

Family 1: Péter Orseolo-házi Magyar király,    b. 1010 in Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy    d. 1059. augusztus 30. in Székesfehérvár, Fejér, Hungary
Family 2: Brzetislaus I Brzetislaus,    b. JAN 1005 in Prague, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire    d. 10 JAN 1055 in Chrudim, Pardubice, Czechia
  1. Spytihnev II Duke of Bohemia, b. 1031 in Prague, Bohême, Tchécoslovaquie     d. 28 JAN 1061 in Bohemia, Bohemia
  2. Vratislaus Přemyslid II, b. BET 1032 AND 1035 in Prague, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire     d. 14 JAN 1092 in Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
  3. Konrád Brnensky I, b. ABT 1035 in Prague, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire     d. 6 SEP 1092 in Prague, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Sources:
  1. Title: The Medlands Project
    Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#JudithdauOttoSchweinfurtM1KunoEzzonen;
  2. Title: Judith von Schweinfurt, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-L8KR : 5 July 2020), Judith von Schweinfurt, 1058; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-L8KR;
  3. Title: Wikipedia -Judith
    Note: Judith of Schweinfurt Duchess of Bohemia Judith Born before 1003 Died 2 August 1058 Noble family House of Schweinfurt Spouse(s) Bretislav I, Duke of Bohemia Issue Vratislaus II of Bohemia Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia Conrad I, Duke of Bohemia Otto I of Olomouc Father Henry of Schweinfurt Mother Gerberga of Henneberg Judith of Schweinfurt (Czech: Jitka ze Schweinfurtu / in old Czech: Jitka ze Svinibrodu; before 1003 – 2 August 1058) was Duchess consort of Bohemia from 1034 until 1055, by her marriage with the Přemyslid duke Bretislav I.[1] Family Her parents were Henry of Schweinfurt (d. 1017), margrave in the Bavarian Nordgau,[1] and his wife Gerberga of Henneberg. Margrave Henry and his father Berthold may have been descendants of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and related to the Luitpolding dynasty. Berthold's brother (or nephew) Margrave Leopold I of Austria became progenitor of the Younger House of Babenberg. She was raised at the nunnery her family had founded in Schweinfurt. Bretislav and Jitka According to František Palacký, the young Bohemian prince Bretislav, son of the Přemyslid duke Oldřich of Bohemia, on his way to the court of Emperor Conrad II in 1029 passed through Schweinfurt, where he met Judith and immediately fell in love with her. Duke Oldřich had forged an alliance with the German king Henry II to depose his elder brothers Boleslaus III and Jaromír. He also had been able to reconquer large Moravian territories occupied by the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave by 1019. Therefore, Oldřich was not averse to confirm his good relationship with the German nobility through a marriage to Judith. Beautiful Judith was a desirable bride, however, Oldřich's only son Bretislav was of illegitimate birth from his misalliance with the farmer's daughter Božena. Judith's relatives were very proud of their noble origins, thus complicating the prospect of Bretislav's marriage with the high-born Judith. The young man solved the problem in his own way by sneaking into the monastery and abducting Judith on a wild ride out of Schweinfurt, shattering locks and chains with his sword.[1] Bretislav was never punished for the crime. He and Judith settled at Olomouc in Moravia. Bretislav married Judith some time later. Their first son Spytihněv was born after almost ten years (which led to the hypothesis that the kidnapping happened in 1029), although Judith may have given birth to daughters before her first son. Exile in Hungary After Bretislav died in 1055, Judith was expelled by her son Spytihněv out of Bohemia, like many other Germans, and moved to the Kingdom of Hungary with her younger son Vratislaus. In Hungary she may have secondly married the former king Peter Orseolo, who had been deposed in 1046. Judith died in 1058 and her mortal remains were transferred to St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Legacy Judith's Shoe, Schweinfurt The marriage of Bretislav and Judith was perpetuated in the theatre play Bretislaus, also named Bretislav and Jitka, written by the Czech author Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622) in 1614. The performance was then forbidden, considered detrimental to the reputation of the Bohemian monarchs. According to legend, Judith during her kidnapping lost a shoe when Bretislav's horse galloped downhill from the Schweinfurt monastery; since the 19th century a masonry cave with a stone shoe marks the site.

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