Bertha (wife of Hermann III of Baden)

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Bertha , also Berta (* allegedly 1116/17; † allegedly after 1148, 1153 or 1162), was the wife of Hermann III. Margravine of Baden and Verona . It is attested in writing in 1134.

Their ancestry is unclear. Occasionally an origin from the House of Upper Lorraine-Châtenois is assumed; Bertha would be the daughter of Duke Simon I. After Hansmartin Decker-Hauff , Bertha was one of the three daughters of Gertrud von Comburg from her marriage to the later Hohenstaufen King Konrad III. This theory of the Margravine of Baden “Bertha von Hohenstaufen” is now considered to be refuted, since no evidence can be found for the marriage of her parents.

From her marriage to Margrave Hermann III. produced at least one son, Hermann IV .

According to a theory by Gerd Wunder , Bertha spent the last years of her life as the abbess of the Erstein monastery in Alsace . After her death, she found her final resting place in the burial place of the Margraves of Baden in the Augustinian Canons of St. Pancratius in Backnang .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tobias Weller : The marriage policy of the German high nobility in the 12th century. Böhlau 2004, ISBN 3-412-11104-X , p. 354
  2. ↑ see for example the family tree in Reinhard Scheunpflug: The Gosecker - Palatinus Comes Gozecensis. Munich: GRIN Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-57580-0 , p. 114
  3. ^ Tobias Weller: The marriage policy of the German high nobility in the 12th century. Pp. 217/218
  4. ↑ Reiner Haussherr , Württembergisches Landesmuseum: Die Zeit der Staufer, exhibition catalog 1977, p. 354
personal data
SURNAME Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berta; Bertha von Baden; Bertha von Staufen; Bertha von Hohenstaufen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margravine of Baden and Verona
DATE OF BIRTH around 1116
DATE OF DEATH around 1148–1162