Adela von Vohburg

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Adela von Vohburg (* before 1127 , † after 1187 in Weißenau Monastery ) from the Diepoldinger-Rapotonen family was heiress of the Egerland and as the first wife of the future Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa , German Queen and Duchess of Swabia .

Life

Adela von Vohburg was a daughter of Margrave Diepold III. von Vohburg and his first wife Adelajda of Poland, who died in 1127 .

After his father's death in 1146, the Egerland acquired from her father was withdrawn by the crown. King Conrad III. married the heiress Adela in Eger around 1147 with his nephew, Duke Friedrich III. of Swabia, the later Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa. With Adela's dowry, he was able to decisively expand his power base as Duke of Swabia into the East Franconian region.

The marriage was unhappy. Friedrich almost never appeared in public with Adela; she was also not present at his coronation as German king in 1152. In March 1153, after seven years, the marriage was divorced without difficulty by Bishop Hermann von Konstanz . The official reason for the divorce was the degree of kinship between Friedrich and Adela (Adela's great-great-grandmother was a sister of Friedrich's great-grandfather). Presumably, however, an assumed sterility of Adela is the real reason or also an adultery of the queen. In fact, she married again at the turn of the year 1153/1154 and also far below her status, Dietho von Ravensburg (* around 1130, † after 1187). Since the divorced wife of a king usually joined a monastery, but Adela remarried so shortly after the divorce, without objection from the ruler, far below her rank, there is much to be said for Adela's adultery. Both Friedrich and Adela had children in their second marriage, which refuted Adela's assumed sterility.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Hlawitschka : Why was the marriage of Friedrich Barbarossa and Adela von Vohburg possible? In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 61/2005, pp. 506–536, here: pp. 526–528.
    Tobias Weller : The marriage policy of the German nobility in the 12th century . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, p. 788 and plate 13 (above).
  2. ↑ Thomas Oliver Schindler: The Staufer - origin and rise of a ruling family . GRIN Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-73792-5 , p. 5 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Friedemann Needy : Die Staufer , Darmstadt, 2006, ISBN 3-89678-288-6 , p. 8.
predecessor Office Successor
Gertrud von Sulzbach Roman-German queen
1152 to 1153 		Beatrix of Burgundy
personal data
SURNAME Adela von Vohburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelheid von Vohburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Friedrich I. Barbarossa
DATE OF BIRTH before 1127
DATE OF DEATH after 1187
Place of death Weissenau Monastery