Agnes of Silesia-Liegnitz

Ulrich I. (left) and Agnes (right), drawing of the double tumba in the Stuttgart collegiate church from the manuscript Memoriae posteritatique inclytae domus Wirtembergicae sacrum from 1583

Double umba in the collegiate church of Stuttgart

Agnes von Schlesien-Liegnitz (* after 1242 in Breslau ; † March 13, 1265 ) was Duchess of Liegnitz from 1248 and, by marriage, Countess of Württemberg .

Agnes came from the Liegnitz branch of the Silesian Piasts . She was the eldest daughter of Duke Boleslaw II and Hedwig († 1259), daughter of Count Heinrich von Anhalt .

After 1259, Agnes married Count Ulrich I of Württemberg ( Ulrich the founder ), whose first wife Mechthild von Baden had previously died ( probably in 1258 ). Agnes presumably died giving birth to her only son, the later Count Eberhard I ( Eberhard the Illustrious ). She was buried in the Beutelsbach collegiate church ; their bones were probably transferred to the collegiate church in Stuttgart in 1321 .

Agnes was the granddaughter of Duke Henry II of Silesia , known as the Pious , and the great-granddaughter of Saint Hedwig von Andechs .

literature

• Gerhard Raff : Hie good Wirtemberg all the way. Volume 1: The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the Founder to Duke Ludwig. 6th edition. Landhege, Schwaigern 2014, ISBN 978-3-943066-34-0 , pp. 40-46.