Agnes of Hohenstaufen

• Preferred Name: Agnes of Hohenstaufen ^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Agnes Von Staufen
  
• Alternate Name: Von Sachsen
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: G78H-33R
  
• Death: 9 MAY 1204 in Stade, Stade, Niedersachsen, Allemagne at LATI: N3.6053 LONG: E0.4622
  
• Birth: 1176 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany at LATI: N8.9102 LONG: E1.7605 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial: in Stade, Landkreis Stade, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany at LATI: N3.6053 LONG: E0.4622 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Agnes of Hohenstaufen (1176 - 7 or 9 May 1204) was the daughter and heiress of the Hohenstaufen count palatine Conrad of the Rhine. She was Countess of the Palatinate herself from 1195 until her death, as the wife of the Welf count palatine Henry V.
  
  «b»Life«/b»
  Agnes' father Conrad of Hohenstaufen was a younger half-brother of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who had enfeoffed him with the Electoral Palatinate in 1156. A cautious and thoughtful politician, he aimed for peace and reconciliation in the Empire. Even before 1180, he had betrothed his daughter to Henry V, the eldest son of the rebellious Saxon duke Henry the Lion, in order to defuse the re-emerging conflict between the Hohenstaufen and Welf dynasties.
  
  In 1193, however, Barbarossa's son and successor, Emperor Henry VI, wanted to create a political alliance with King Philip II of France and planned to marry his cousin Agnes to Philip II. When the young Welf scion Henry V heard of this plan, he contacted Agnes' parents. Her father avoided definitive statements on her betrothal, as he preferred a marriage with the French king, but also did not want to offend Henry V, whom Agnes revered fanatically.
  
  Agnes' mother Irmengard (d. 1197), daughter of Count Berthold I of Henneberg, continued to advocate her daughter's marriage with the Welf prince. A little later she took advantage of the absence of her husband, who stayed at Henry VI's court, to thwart the Emperor's plan. She invited the young Welf to Stahleck Castle, where he and Agnes were married in January or February 1194.
  
  Furious Emperor Henry VI felt betrayed and demanded that Conrad immediately annul the marriage. Conrad, however, dropped his initial resistance to the marriage and, seeing as it had already been blessed in Church, chose to convince his nephew Henry VI of the domestic political benefits of this marriage. Conrad's sons had died young and Henry VI could assure the succession in the Electoral Palatinate by enfeoffing Henry the Welf. Additionally, Conrad and Agnes on the occasion of the marital union convinced the emperor to pardon Henry the Lion, who had been deposed and outlawed by Frederick Barbarossa in 1180.
  
  The reconciliation between Emperor Henry VI and Duke Henry the Lion was solemnly held in March 1194 at the Imperial Palace of Tilleda. Agnes and her husband Henry V had done their bit to prepare for this major domestic event with their unscheduled marriage at Stahleck Castle. Moreover, Emperor Henry VI had to settle the conflict with the House of Welf, to ensure peace in the Holy Roman Empire while enforcing his claims on the Kingdom of Sicily after the death of King Tancred on 20 February 1194.
  
  «b»Issue
  Agnes and Henry had a son and two daughters:«/b»
  1.) Henry, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1212 to 1214
  
  2.) Irmengard (1200 - 1260), married Herman V, Margrave of Baden-Baden
  
  3.) Agnes (1201 - 1267), married Duke Otto II of Bavaria. Agnes and Otto became the ancestors of the House of Wittelsbach in Bavaria and the Palatinate. Her daughter Elisabeth was the mother of Conradin. Her son Louis was the father of Emperor Louis IV.
  
  «b»Legacy«/b»
  During the Romanticism period in the 19th century, the historic picture of Agnes of Hohenstaufen was blissfully idealized. In Christian Dietrich Grabbe's drama entitled Henry VI, published in 1830, she is depicted as a carefree but resolute girl, who even addresses the Imperial Diet to assert her marriage with the man she loves. Fighting for the love and happiness of her reluctant fiancé, she brings about the ultimate reconciliation of the Welf and Hohenstaufen families on the deathbed of her father-in-law, Henry the Lion, who called her "a rose blossoming between to rocks". In fact, it was Agnes' mother Irmengard who had arranged the marriage.
  
  The opera Agnes von Hohenstaufen by the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini, based on the libretto by Ernst Raupach, had its premiere on 12 June 1829 at the Royal Opera Berlin.
  
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  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 6/2009:
  Agnes Hohenstaufen1
  F, #106786, b. 1176, d. 9 May 1204
  Agnes Hohenstaufen|b. 1176\nd. 9 May 1204|p10679.htm#i106786|Conrad Pfalzgraf von der Rhein|d. 1195|p10679.htm#i106787|Irmingard von Henneberg|d. 1197|p11426.htm#i114253|Friedrich I. Herzog von Swabia|b. c 1090\nd. 6 Apr 1147|p11425.htm#i114248|Agnes von Saarbrücken||p11426.htm#i114251|Berthold I. Graf von Henneberg||p11426.htm#i114254||||
  Last Edited=2 Nov 2005
  Agnes Hohenstaufen was born in 1176.2 She was the daughter of Conrad Pfalzgraf von der Rhein and Irmingard von Henneberg .1,2 She married Heinrich I von Zelle, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria , son of Heinrich V Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Matilda of England , circa January 1194.2 She died on 9 May 1204.
  Children of Agnes Hohenstaufen and Heinrich I von Zelle, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
  Heinrich II Pfalzgraf von der Rhein b. c 1195, d. 1 May 1214
  Ermengarde von der Rhein + b. c 1200, d. 24 Feb 1260
  Agnes von Braunschweig + b. c 1201, d. 16 Aug 1267
  Citations
  [S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 60. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
  [S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 113. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
  
  === Countess of Lorraine[royal genealogy.GE ===
  Countess of Lorraine[royal genealogy.GED] [royal genealogy.ged] Countess of Lorraine
  
  === Pfalzgravine of the Rhine ===
  Pfalzgravine of the Rhine
  
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  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === n!BIRTH: from The European Ancestry of C ===
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  === BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER ===
  BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 431, 460, 463, 470;
  
  === !#18-V1-T43; !#552-v1-t41 ===
  !#18-V1-T43; !#552-v1-t41
  
  === Erbin der Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein ===
  Erbin der Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein

1. Irmengard VON BADEN, b. 1200 in Germany     d. 24 FEB 1260 in Wurttemberg, Wurttemberg, Germany
2. Agnes von Braunschweig, b. 1201 in Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein, Holy Roman Empire     d. 16 NOV 1267 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

1. Title: Agnes von Hohenstaufen, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-2QW1 : 24 August 2022), Agnes von Hohenstaufen, ; Burial, Stade, Landkreis Stade, Lower Saxony Niedersachsen, Germany, St. Marien; citing record ID 122408066, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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