Kasimir I of Oppeln

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Duke of Oppeln.

Kasimir married Viola between 1212 and 1220. Viola died on 7 Sep 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Wladislaw of Oppeln was born about 1225; died about 27 Aug 1281.
2. Euphrosyne of Oppeln was born between 1228 and 1230; died on 4 Nov 1292.

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Called "Platonogi" ("Tanglefoot"). Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor.

Mieszko married Ludmilla between 1170 and 1178. Ludmilla died after 20 Oct 1210. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Exile." Also called Wygnaniec. "[O]f the House of Piast, Duke of Poland in Krakow and Silesia" [Szabolcs de Vajay, citation details below].

Wladislaw married Agnes of Babenberg between 1125 and 1127. Agnes (daughter of St. Leopold von Babenberg and Agnes of Germany) was born between 1110 and 1111; died on 25 Jan 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1111, Vienna, Austria
• Alternate death: 25 Jan 1158

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Also called Agnes Margravine of Austria; Agnieszka Babenberg (Polish); Agnes von Österreich.

Ruthless and consequential politician; good Wikipedia article here.

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• Alternate death: 1139

Boleslaw married Zbyslava of Kiev. Zbyslava (daughter of Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev) died between 1110 and 1111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1113

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Also called Zbyslava Swiatopelkówna.

From Wikipedia:

"During his fight against his half-brother Zbigniew, the Junior Duke of Poland, Boleslaw III Wrymouth, allied himself with Kievan Rus' and Hungary. In order to seal his alliance with the Grand Prince of Kiev, Boleslaw III was betrothed to his eldest daughter Zbyslava. The Primary Chronicle names Zbyslava, daughter of Svyatopolk when recording that she was taken to Poland on 16 November 1102 to marry Boleslaw III. Thus, the marriage took place between that date or in early 1103. They had only one known son, the future Wladyslaw II the Exile, born in 1105, and a daughter (perhaps named Judith), born around 1111 and later wife of Vsevolod Davidovich, Prince of Murom.

"Her date of death is uncertain. Sources place Zbyslava's death between the years 1109 and 1112. She most likely died by 1114 at the latest, as one year later (in 1115), Boleslaw III married Salomea, daughter of Henry, Count of Berg-Schelklingen."

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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.

Wladyslaw married Judith Premyslid, Princess of Bohemia about 1080. Judith (daughter of Vratislaus II, King of Bohemia and Adelaide of Hungary) died between 1093 and 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Judith of Bohemia. Also called Sophie.

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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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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.

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Duke of Poland. De facto king.

"The Restorer"; "The Pacific." Educated in France.

Casimir married Maria Dobronega in 1038. Maria (daughter of St. Vladimir of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev and (Unknown mistress of St. Vladimir of Kiev)) was born after 1011; died in 1087. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Aft 1012

Vratislaus married Adelaide of Hungary. Adelaide (daughter of András I, King of Hungary and Anastasia of Kiev) died on 27 Jan 1062. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Baptized as Demetrius.

Iziaslav married Gertrude-Olisava of Poland about 1043. Gertrude-Olisava (daughter of Mieszko II Lambert, King Of Poland and Richeza of Lotharingia) was born about 1020 in Krakow, Malowpolskie, Poland; died on 4 Jan 1107. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 4 Jan 1108

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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.