Leopold VI of Austria

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Called "der Glorreiche" (he Glorious). Duke of Austria and Steiermark. He fought in the Reconquista, the Albigensian Crusade, and the Fifth Crusade.

"Babenbergian Austria reached the zenith of its prestige under Leopold's rule. Evidence of this is given by his marriage to the Byzantine princess Theodora Angelina and his attempt to mediate between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX, which he was working on when he died in 1230 in Italy. Leopold's court is known as a center of the Minnesang, e.g., Walther von der Vogelweide, Neidhart von Reuental and Ulrich von Liechtenstein were active here. Also, the Nibelungenlied may have been written in his court." [Wikipedia, accessed 9 Aug 2020]

Leopold married Theodora Angela in 1203. Theodora (daughter of Ioannes Angelos) was born between 1180 and 1185; died on 23 Jun 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Agnes of Austria was born on 19 Feb 1206; died on 29 Jul 1226.
2. Heinrich of Austria was born in 1208; died on 3 Jan 1228.
3. Constance of Austria was born on 6 May 1212; died before 5 Jun 1243.

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Duke of Austria and Steiermark.

Leopold married Helene of Hungary in 1172. Helene (daughter of Geisa II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Euphrosine of Kiev) was born about 1158; died on 25 May 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Austria.

Heinrich married Theodora Komnena in 1149. Theodora (daughter of Andronikos Komnenos and Eirene) was born about 1130; died on 2 Jan 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 May 1162

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Also called Gevitza.

Geisa married Euphrosine of Kiev in 1146. Euphrosine (daughter of Mstislav I, Grand Prince of Kiev and Ljubawa Dimitriewna Sawiditsch) was born about 1130; died in 1186. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margrave of Austria.

From Wikipedia:

Saint Leopold III (German: Luitpold, 1073 – 15 November 1136), known as Leopold the Good, was the Margrave of Austria from 1095 to his death in 1136. He was a member of the House of Babenberg. He was canonized on 6 January 1485 [by Innocent VII] and became the patron saint of Austria, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and Vienna. His feast day is 15 November. [...]

Leopold called himself "Princeps Terræ", a reflection of his sense of territorial independence. He was considered a candidate in the election of the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire in 1125, but declined this honour.

He is mainly remembered for the development of the country and, in particular, the founding of several monasteries. His most important foundation is Klosterneuburg (1108). According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to him and led him to a place where he found the veil of his wife Agnes, who had lost it years earlier. He established the Klosterneuburg Monastery there. He subsequently expanded the settlement to become his residence.

Leopold also founded the monasteries of Heiligenkreuz, Kleinmariazell and Seitenstetten which developed a territory still largely covered by forest. All of these induced the church to canonize him in 1485.

Leopold also fostered the development of cities, such as Klosterneuburg, Vienna and Krems. The last one was granted the right to mint but never attained great importance.

Leopold married Agnes of Germany in 1106. Agnes (daughter of Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Turin) was born in 1073; died on 24 Sep 1143; was buried in Klosterneuberg, Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Agnes of Waiblingen; Agnes von Franken.

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Sebastokrator.

Andronikos married Eirene about 1124. Eirene died between 1150 and 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ainoiadissa.

Béla married Jelena of Serbia on 28 Apr 1127. Jelena (daughter of Uros of Serbia and Anna Diogenissa) was born after 1109; died after 1146. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mstislav married Ljubawa Dimitriewna Sawiditsch. Ljubawa (daughter of Dimitri Sawiditsch) died in 1167. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margrave of Austria. "The Fair."

Leopold married Ida of Austria. Ida died after 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Itha; Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg; Ida von Ratelberg.

"Ida of Austria (c. 1055 – September 1101) was a consort of Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army. [...] Ida joined the Crusade of 1101: alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, she raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem. In September of that year, she and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds." [Wikipedia]

According to her article on the German-language version of Wikipedia, her parentage is the subject of several conflicting theories.

Heinrich married Bertha of Turin on 13 Jul 1066. Bertha (daughter of Otto I of Savoy and Adelaide of Susa) was born in 1051; died on 27 Dec 1087 in Mainz, Hessen, Germany; was buried in Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Bertha of Maurienne, Berta de Savoie.

Ioannes married Eirene of Hungary in 1104. Eirene (daughter of St. Lászlo I, King of Hungary and Adela von Rheinfelden) was born about 1078; died on 13 Aug 1134. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Piroska of Hungary.

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Duke of Croatia.

Almos married Predslava of Kiev. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Serbia.

Uros married Anna Diogenissa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vladimir married Gytha of Wessex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Brave." Margrave of Austria. Genealogist Charles Evans proved that he was a son of his father's first wife Glismond, not of his second wife Frozza Orseolo, descendant of the Orseolo Doges of Venice.

From Wikipedia:

He increased the territory of his margraviate by amalgamating the Bohemian and Hungarian frontier marches up to the Thaya, March and Leitha rivers in what is today Lower Austria. In his time, the colonisation of the remote Waldviertel region was begun by his ministeriales, the Kuenring knights.

Ernest received his epithet due to his fighting against King Béla I of Hungary and his son Géza I on behalf of their rival Solomon according to the chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld. In the commencing Investiture Controversy, he sided with King Henry IV of Germany and battled against the Saxons, dying at the Battle of Langensalza.

Ernest married Adelaide of Eilenburg. Adelaide (daughter of Dedi II and Oda) died in 1071. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelheid of the Ostmark.

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• Alternate birth: 28 Oct 1017

Heinrich married Agnes of Poitou on 21 Nov 1043. Agnes (daughter of William III of Poitou and Agnes of Burgundy) was born about 1025; died on 14 Dec 1077 in Rome. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Agnes of Aquitaine.

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• Alternate death: 1060

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Count of Maurienne (Savoy) and Chablis. Margrave of Susa. Margrave of Turin.

Otto married Adelaide of Susa about 1046. Adelaide (daughter of Olderich II Manfredo and Berta of Este) was born about 1015; died on 27 Dec 1091 in Canischio, Turino, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alix.

Marchioness (Duchess) of Turin. Kick-ass eleventh-century woman who took no crap from anybody, evidently.

From Wikipedia:

Since the margravial title primarily had a military purpose at the time, it was thus was not considered suitable for a woman. Emperor Conrad II therefore arranged a marriage between Adelaide and his stepson, Herman IV, in January 1037. Herman was then invested as margrave of Turin. Herman died of the plague while fighting for Conrad II at Naples in July 1038.

Adelaide remarried in order to secure her vast march. Probably in 1041, and certainly before 19 January 1042, Adelaide married Henry, Marquess of Montferrat. Henry died c. 1045 and left Adelaide a widow for the second time. Immediately, a third marriage was undertaken, this time to Otto of Savoy (1046). With Otto she had three sons, Peter I, Amadeus II, and Otto. The couple also had two daughters, Bertha, who married Henry IV of Germany, and Adelaide, who married Rudolf of Rheinfelden (who later opposed Henry as King of Germany). [...]

In 1070 Adelaide captured and burned the city of Asti, which had rebelled against her.

In 1069 Henry IV tried to repudiate Adelaide's daughter, Bertha, which caused Adelaide's relationship with the imperial family to cool. However, through the intervention of Bertha, Henry received Adelaide's support when he came to Italy to submit to Pope Gregory VII and Matilda of Tuscany at Canossa. In return for allowing him to travel through her lands, Henry gave Bugey to Adelaide. Adelaide and her son Amadeus then accompanied Henry IV and Bertha to Canossa, where Adelaide acted as an oath-helper, alongside Matilda and Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan, among others. Bishop Benzo of Alba sent several letters to Adelaide between 1080 and 1082, encouraging her to support Henry IV in the Italian wars which formed part of the Investiture Controversy. Adelaide's dealings with Henry IV became closer after this. She offered to mediate between him and Matilda and Tuscany, and may even have joined him on campaign.

Adelaide made many donations to monasteries in the march of Turin. In 1064 she founded the monastery of Santa Maria at Pinerolo.

Adelaide received letters from many of the leading churchmen of the day, including Pope Alexander II, Peter Damian, and Pope Gregory VII. These letters indicate that Adelaide sometimes supported Gregorian reform, but that at other times she did not. Peter Damian (writing in 1064) and Gregory VII (writing in 1073), relied upon Adelaide to enforce clerical celibacy and protect the monasteries of Fruttuaria and San Michele della Chiusa. By contrast, Alexander II (writing c. 1066/7) reproached Adelaide for her dealings with Guido da Velate the simoniac Archbishop of Milan. [...]

Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

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• Alternate birth: 1048

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"Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power. Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration. The basis for this recovery were various reforms initiated by Alexios. His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that likely contributed to the convoking of the Crusades." [Wikipedia]

Alexios married Irene Doukaina about 1078. Irene (daughter of Andronikos Doukas and Maria of Bulgaria) was born about 1066; died on 19 Feb 1123. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lászlo married Adela von Rheinfelden in 1077. Adela (daughter of Rudolf von Rheinfelden and Adelheid of Savoy) died in 1079. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Colomon.

Geisa married Synadene. Synadene (daughter of Theodul Synadenos) died after 1077. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christened Michael.

"Often acknowledged as [Gertrude-Olisava of Poland's] son, Sviatopolk II of Kiev may have been the son of Izyaslav by a concubine." [Wikipedia]

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Killed in battle at the walls of Antioch.

Konstantinos married Theodora Komnena. Theodora (daughter of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassene, Regent of the Byzantine Empire) was born about 1053. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vsevolod married Maria Monomacha. Maria (daughter of Constantine Monomachos, Emperor of Byzantium) died in 1067. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Anastasia.

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Last king of Anglo-Saxon England. Killed at the Battle of Hastings.

Harold married Ealdgyth of Mercia, Queen Consort of England about 1064. Ealdgyth (daughter of Ælfgar of Mercia and Ælfgifu) died after 1066. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Edith the Fair, Edith Swan-neck, Edith Swannesha.