Ida of Austria

- Aft 1101

• Name	Ida of Austria
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1101  [1]
  Person ID	I2830	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2020

  
  

  Family	Leopold II von Babenberg,   b. Abt 1050   d. 12 Oct 1095 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Children	+ 1. Ida von der Ostmark + 2. St. Leopold von Babenberg,   b. 1073   d. 15 Nov 1136, Vienna, Austria (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F1943	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2020

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.