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Welf II, Count of Swabia

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{{Infobox nobility
| name= Welf II
| title=Count of Altdorf
| image =Wgt Stifterbüchlein 21v.jpg
| caption=Count Welf II in the Weingarten Stifterbüchlein, {{circa|1510}}
| noble family=Elder House of Welf
| spouse=Imiza of Luxembourg
| issue=Welf, Duke of Carinthia
Kunigunde of Altdorf
| father=Rudolf II, Count of Altdorf
| mother=Ita of Öhningen
| birth_date=
| birth_place=
| death_date=13 November 1055
| death_place=Bodman Castle
| burial_place=Weingarten Abbey
}}

Welf II ({{circa|960/70}} - died 10 March 1030) was a Swabian count and a member of the Elder House of Welf.

Life

He was a younger son of Count Rudolf II and Ita, a daughter of Duke Conrad I of Swabia of the Conradine dynasty.{{sfn|Freed|2016|p=13}} He constructed a castle at Ravensburg.{{sfn|Freed|2016|p=13}}

In the 1020s, Welf feuded with the Augsburg and Freising bishops.^[1] He pillaged the treasury of Bishop Bruno of Augsburg, brother of Emperor Henry II, and sacked the city of Augsburg.^[2]

Welf opposed the election of the Salian count Conrad II as King of the Romans in 1024 because it did not suit his interests, but he had to eventually relent.^[3] The next year he joined a rebellion launched by the Babenberg duke Ernest II of Swabia, but finally submitted in 1027.^[4] He died, probably in captivity, in 1030.^[5] He was buried at Weingarten Abbey.^[6]

Marriage and issue

Welf II was married to Imiza, daughter of Count Frederick of Luxembourg.{{sfn|Freed|2016|p=13}} With Imiza, Welf had at least two children:

Welf, Duke of Carinthia (Welf III; d. 1055){{sfn|Dick|2001|p=804}}
Kunigunde of Altdorf (also called Chuniza; c. 1020 – 31 August 1054){{sfn|Dick|2001|p=804}}

Sources

{{cite book |first=John B. |last=Freed |title=Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2016 |ref=harv}}
{{cite encyclopedia |title=Welfs |first=Madelyn Bergen |last=Dick |encyclopedia=Routledge Revivals: Medieval Germany (2001): An Encyclopedia |editor-first=John M. |editor-last=Jeep |publisher=Routledge |year=2001 |ref=harv}}
F-R. Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich des ersten Salierkaisers (Regensburg 1998).
Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
B. Schneidmüller: Die Welfen. Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819–1252). (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 119–123.
A. Thiele, Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte Band I, Teilband 1 (Frankfurt/Main 1993).
T. Zotz, 'Welf II.,' in: Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA), Volume 8 (Munich, 1997), cols. 2143–2144.

External links

Welf II, Graf von Altdorf (in German)

Notes

1. ^Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, pp. 121ff.
2. ^Reuter, Germany, p. 204.
3. ^Reuter, Germany, p. 203.
4. ^Erkens, Konrad II. Herrschaft und Reich, pp. 77f.
5. ^Zotz, 'Welf II.,' col. 2144.
6. ^Schneidmüller: Die Welfen, p. 123.

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