Elisabeth of Bregenz

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Charter fundatorum moasterii nostri Prigantini (document from the founders of our Bregenz monastery): Elisabeth von Bregenz and her husband, Count Palatine Hugo von Tübingen , 1519

Countess Elisabeth von Bregenz (* 1152 ; † after April 1, 1216 ) was the sole heiress of the Counts of Bregenz and, by marriage, Countess Palatine of Tübingen .

family

Elisabeth von Bregenz was the only daughter and heir of Count Rudolf von Bregenz from his second marriage to Wulfhild von Bayern , a daughter of the Guelph Duke Heinrich IX. of Bavaria , called Heinrich the Black . His grandson, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, was therefore her first cousin.

She was the sole heiress of Montfort and Bregenz as well as other possessions in Churrätien , Tettnang and Sigmaringen .

Before May 1, 1171, she married Count Palatine Hugo II of Tübingen . She had the following children with him:

  • Heinrich, Count
  • Rudolf I Count Palatine of Tübingen († after April 1, 1219) ∞ Mathilde von Gleiberg
  • Burkard (around 1180)
  • Hugo I , Count of Bregenz and Montfort († March 12, 1230/34) ∞ Mathilde von Eschenbach-Schnabelburg, founder of the House of Montfort

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Hiebl: Elisabeth of Bregenz.
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth of Bregenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Heiress of Montfort and Bregenz as well as Countess Palatine of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1152
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH after April 1, 1216
Place of death uncertain: Tübingen