Friedrich V (Swabia)

Friedrich V (born July 16, 1164 in Pavia ; † around 1170 ) was Duke of Swabia from 1167 . He was the eldest son of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and his second wife Beatrix of Burgundy .

In April 1165, at the age of nine months, he was betrothed to Eleanor , the three-year-old daughter of King Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine . However, this marriage agreement became irrelevant a few years later due to Friedrich's untimely death.

In August 1167, Duke Friedrich IV of Swabia died on an Italian campaign. He was the only living son of King Conrad III. , an uncle of Barbarossa. With that this line died out and its inheritance fell to the line of Barbarossa. This appointed Frederick as Duke of Swabia, who was the fifth Staufer with this name at the head of the duchy without any gaps.

In June 1169 an assembly of princes met in Bamberg elected Friedrich's younger brother, the three and a half year old later Emperor Heinrich VI. , to the co-king of his father Friedrich I. Barbarossa. Heinrich's coronation took place on August 15, 1169 in Aachen . It can be assumed that Friedrich was passed over because he was weak from birth and promised a short life expectancy.

The remains of Frederick V of Swabia, who died at the age of five, also lie in this tumba in Lorch Abbey.

Two medieval sources suggest that Friedrich was still alive when his brother was elected king. Since his fiancée Eleanor was betrothed to King Alfonso VIII of Castile in 1170, he will have died in the second half of 1169 or early 1170.

Friedrich was buried in the Lorch Monastery , the grave of the Staufers donated by his great-grandfather Duke Friedrich I of Swabia . In 1475, Abbot Nikolaus Schenk von Arberg had the remains of all the Hohenstaufen buried in Lorch reburied in a late Gothic tomb , which today stands in the central nave of the Lorch monastery church.

After his death, Friedrich's name was passed on to Barbarossa's third and then three-year-old son, who was originally called Konrad. This was around 1170 Duke Friedrich VI. from Swabia . In this way, the Hohenstaufen guiding name Friedrich was retained. Since Otto , Barbarossa's next son after Konrad / Friedrich, was born in June / July 1170, Friedrich V must have died some time before; otherwise the rather unusual renaming of Konrad would have been superfluous, because one could simply have called the next son Friedrich (instead of Otto).

literature

• Gerhard Baaken : The age sequence of the sons of Friedrich Barbarossa and the ascension of Henry VI. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 24 (1968), pp. 46–78.
• Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : The Staufer House. In: Württembergisches Landesmuseum (Hrsg.): The time of the Staufer. History - art - culture. Stuttgart 1977, Volume III, pp. 339-374, here: p. 355.
• Erwin Assmann : Friedrich Barbarossa's children . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 33 (1977), pp. 435–472.
• Tobias Weller : The marriage policy of the German nobility in the 12th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-11104-X , pp. 99-108.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Decker-Hauff p. 355.
2. ^ Weller pp. 101-102 and p. 107.
3. ↑ Baaken p. 65.
4. ↑ Weller p. 100.
5. ↑ Weller p. 107.
6. ↑ Burial place of the Hohenstaufen in the Lorch monastery on schloesser-und-gaerten.de. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
7. ↑ Baaken p. 75.Weller p. 100.
8. ↑ Assmann p. 459.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich IV.	Duke of Swabia 1167 – around 1170	Friedrich VI.