Hildegard of Egisheim

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Hildegard of Egisheim; Bust after her death mask

Hildegard von Egisheim , also Hildegard von Schlettstadt , (* around 1024/1025/1028/1035; † autumn 1094 / before February 4, 1095 in Schlettstadt ) from the noble family of the Counts of Egisheim was Countess Palatinate in Breisgau and Countess in Riesgau .

As the wife of Friedrich von Büren , she is considered the ancestral mother of the Staufers .

ancestry

Hildegard's ancestry is not clearly passed down: According to recent research, she is called "Hildegard von Egisheim" (* around 1028, † autumn 1094), daughter of Count Gerhard I von Egisheim - Dagsburg . In older literature she is also called "Hildegard von Schlettstadt" or assigned to the Counts of Mömpelgard , Bar and Mousson . The designation under Schlettstadt results from the on for 1087 and to 1,094 in Schlettstadt founded monastery of St. Fides , the oldest grave lay the Staufer in Alsace , where she is buried. The Mousson-Bar line was the line of her cousin Ludwig von Mousson , who married Sophia von Bar . Their son Dietrich I married Irmintrud, daughter of Count Wilhelm I of Burgundy and heiress of Mömpelgard.

In any case, Hildegard belonged to one of the most distinguished families in Alsace; her paternal uncle was Bishop Bruno von Toul, later Pope Leo IX. According to new research by Eduard Hlawitschka , Hildegard was also a great-granddaughter of King Konrad III through her mother Bertha . of Burgundy .

Laundry castle

Legend prison is said that on the occasion of her marriage to Friedrich von Bueren the (1042/1044/1049/1050) scrubber castle in Wäschenbeuren was built, where she is said to have lived with her husband. Many historians assume that her husband's nickname “von Büren” refers to the laundry castle, but it has not been proven.

bust

During the restoration of the church of the former St. Fides monastery in Schlettstadt in 1892, the crypt was rediscovered and examined. The remains of a woman were found in a brick tomb in front of the altar, covered with a thick layer of lime, from which it was concluded that she was a victim of the plague . Her facial features were imprinted in the lime so that casts of her bust could be made. Due to the preferred location of the grave, it is assumed that it is Hildegard. However, she died at the age of about seventy, while the bust rather suggests a forty-year-old woman. It is therefore also assumed that it is her daughter Adelheid, who died shortly before her. The death mask created in this way would be the only true-to- life portrait of a person known by name from the Middle Ages. A cast of the bust is exhibited in the crypt. Further copies are u. a. in the Staufer Documentation Center at Hohenstaufen , in the Steinhaus Museum in Bad Wimpfen and in the museum of the laundry castle near Wäschenbeuren .

progeny

Friedrich and Hildegard had seven children together:

⚭ Adelheid from the Adalberte or Hupaldinger clan (ancestors of the Counts of Dillingen )
  • Ludwig (* around 1044; † mid-1103 at the latest), 1094–1103 Count Palatine in Swabia and co-founder of St. Fides zu Schlettstadt , possibly the same person as Ludwig the Elder of Sigmaringen
  • Adelheid (* around 1045; † after summer 1094)
⚭ I. Count Palatine Otto (uncertain) or Otto, nobleman from the Fildern
⚭ II. Berengar the Elder from Stubersheim
⚭ 1086/1087 Agnes von Waiblingen (* late 1072; † 24 September 1143), daughter of Emperor Heinrich IV. From the noble Salian family
  • Konrad / Kuno (* around 1048/1049, † after autumn 1094, probably before July 1095)
  • Walther (* around 1049/1050, † after July 23, 1095, before 1103)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ u. a. Manfred Akermann: The Staufer. A European ruling family
  2. ^ Peter Koblank: Staufer graves. Only a few of the most prominent Hohenstaufen are buried in Germany. on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  3. ^ The death mask of Hildegard von Egisheim on burgerbe.wordpress.com. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : The Staufer House , in: Württembergisches Landesmuseum (ed.): The time of the Staufer. History - Art - Culture , Stuttgart 1977, Volume III, pp. 339–374, here: pp. 343–347
  5. ↑ a b c Rolf Deutschle / Herbert Raisch: Kloster Denkendorf, the Württemberger and the Staufer , in: Hohenstaufen / Helfenstein, Volume 7, 1997, p. 47 u. P. 52
personal data
SURNAME Hildegard of Egisheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancestral mother of the Staufer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1024
DATE OF DEATH 1094