Judith the Elder

Judith the Elder († 1091 in Salerno ) was the wife of Margrave Hermann I of Verona , the founder of the line of the Margraves of Baden .

Only her first name is known of Judith, a classification in one of the southwest German noble families has not yet been successful. The first name Judith could point to the Guelph family, it would correspond to the generation of Duke Welf IV , whose father held the Duchy of Carinthia at the time . The assumption made by older researchers that she was the daughter of a Count von Calw must be considered refuted.

After her husband withdrew to the Cluny monastery in 1073 in view of the experience of the civil war during the investiture dispute that had devastated the Swabian ancestral lands of the Zähringer , she renounced worldly life, gave a large part of her inheritance to the Hirsau monastery and led a saintly life and later went to Salerno to see Pope Urban II , who had fled to the Normans before the imperial party in Rome , where she died in 1091.

In older literature, Judith is equated with Judith "von Backnang" , which, however, is not valid according to recent research.

At least one son, Hermann (II) , emerged from the marriage with Hermann von Verona . He was the first to call himself Margrave of Baden .

literature

• Hansmartin Schwarzmaier u. a., History of Baden in Pictures. 1100-1918 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1993. ISBN 3-17-012088-3 .
• Florian Lamke: The early margraves of Baden, the Hessonen and the Zähringer . Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 154 (2006) ( ISSN  0044-2607 ) pp. 21–42.