Welf V.

On the left, Mathilde's wedding with Welf V., on the right, Mathilde presents her property to her husband. Illumination from the 14th century in a manuscript of the Nuova Chronica by Giovanni Villani. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi LVIII 296, fol. 56r

Welf V. (* probably 1073 at Peiting Castle ; † September 24, 1120 at Kaufering Castle ) was the eldest son of Duke Welf IV. ( Welf I of Bavaria ) and Judith of Flanders . After the death of his father on the crusade of 1101 , he was himself, as Welf II, Duke of Bavaria until his death .

Life

To strengthen the opposition to Emperor Henry IV , Pope Urban II mediated the marriage of the 16-year-old Welf to the more than 40-year-old Mathilde von Tuszien , mistress of Canossa, around 1089 . The marriage was supposed to enable a middle kingdom to split off from Bavaria to northern Italy. But it was a sham marriage that was burdened by the fact that Mathilde had already transferred her property to the Pope. In the summer of 1095 Welf V. separated from her. He and his father Welf IV were reconciled with the emperor. As a result, Welf IV was reinstated in the Duchy of Bavaria, and Welf V followed a few years later.

Welf remained loyal to the emperor and limited himself - besides accompanying the imperial campaigns - to his office as Duke of Bavaria, about which little is known. After ruling for 19 years, he died in Kaufering Castle near Landsberg in Upper Bavaria ; his body was buried next to that of his father in Weingarten .

Welf V. had not married a second time, he remained childless; his brother Heinrich the Black became his successor in Bavaria .

literature

Rudolf Reiser : Welf V. In: Karl Bosl (Hrsg.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 833 ( digitized version ).
Sigmund Ritter von Riezler : Welf II. (V.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 670 f.
Bernd Schneidmüller : The Guelphs. Reign and memory (819–1252) (= Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher. Vol. 465). 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 2014, ISBN 3-17-026104-5 .

Web links

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Remarks

↑ See Elke Goez: Welf V. and Mathilde von Canossa. In: Dieter R. Bauer, Matthias Becher (ed.): Welf IV. Key figure in a turning point. Regional and European perspectives. Munich 2004, pp. 360–381.
↑ Johannes Laudage: The Salier - The first German royal house. 3. Edition. Munich 2011, pp. 91–92.
↑ Joseph Wernhard: Regenten row of the illustrious Wittelsbach house with the beginning of the Agilolfinger, Carolingian or genealogical index of all dukes and kings of Bavaria, with the necessary family tables . Volume 1, Dinkelsbühl and Leipzig 1827, pp. 32–33 ( digitized in the Google book search).

predecessor	Office	successor
Welf I.	Duke of Bavaria 1101–1120	Henry IX.

personal data
SURNAME	Welf V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Welf II of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1073
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1120
Place of death	Kaufering Castle

[1] See Elke Goez: Welf V. and Mathilde von Canossa. In: Dieter R. Bauer, Matthias Becher (ed.): Welf IV. Key figure in a turning point. Regional and European perspectives. Munich 2004, pp. 360–381.

[2] Johannes Laudage: The Salier - The first German royal house. 3. Edition. Munich 2011, pp. 91–92.

[3] Joseph Wernhard: Regenten row of the illustrious Wittelsbach house with the beginning of the Agilolfinger, Carolingian or genealogical index of all dukes and kings of Bavaria, with the necessary family tables . Volume 1, Dinkelsbühl and Leipzig 1827, pp. 32–33 ( digitized in the Google book search).