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- Agnes of Germany (1072 - 24 September, 1143) was an Austrian margravine consort.
Family
She was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Savoy. Her maternal grandparents were Otto, Count of Savoy and Adelaide of Susa.
Agnes married firstly, in 1089, Frederick I, Duke of Swabia. They had several children:
Heilica (1088-1110)
Bertha (1089-1120)
Frederick II of Swabia
Hildegard
Conrad III of Germany
Gisela
Henry (1096-1105)
Beatrix (1098-1130)
Kunigunde (1100-1120/1126), wife of Henry of Bavaria (1100-1139)
Richilde
Gertrude
Following Frederick's death in 1105, Agnes married Leopold III (born 1073; died 15 Nov. 1136), the Margrave of Austria (1095 till 1136). According to a legend, a veil lost by Agnes and found by Leopold years later while hunting instigated him to found the monastery of Klosterneuburg.
Their children were:
Leopold IV
Henry II of Austria
Berta, who had issue
Agnes, "one of the most famous beauties of her time"
Ernst
Uta, wife of Liutpold von Plain
Otto of Freising, bishop and biographer
Conrad, Bishop of Passau, and Archbishop of Salzburg
Elizabeth
Judith, m. c. 1133 William V of Montferrat. Their children formed an important Crusading dynasty.
Gertrude
According to the Continuation of the Chronicles of Klosterneuburg, there may have been up to seven others (possibly from multiple births) stillborn or died in infancy.
In 1125, Agnes' brother, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, deceased childless, leaving Agnes and her children as heirs of the Salian dynasty's immense allodial estates, including Waiblingen.
In 1127, Agnes' eldest surviving son, Konrad III, was elected by opposition as rival king of Germany against Saxon party's Lothar III. When Lothar died in 1137, Konrad won the position.
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(Age 36 years)