Sophia von Landsberg

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Sophia von Landsberg (* 1258/59; † August 14 or 24, 1318 in Weißenfels ) from the Wettin house was the “wife” of the last legitimate Staufer Konradin through a proxy wedding , later duchess of Glogau and finally abbess of the Weißenfels monastery .

She was the daughter of Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg and his wife Helene von Brandenburg and thus the granddaughter of Heinrich III. von Meißen , an old partisan of the Staufer. In September 1266, Sophia, who was only seven or eight years old, was married to the fourteen-year-old Staufer heir Konradin by procurationem (symbolically by proxy) in Coburg . Konradin's guardian, Duke Ludwig der Strenge of Upper Bavaria, who had probably also arranged the marriage , acted as deputy . It is unclear whether Konradin was personally present and whether the spouses ever met. As the wife of Conradin, Sophia was formally legitimate Queen of Sicily and Jerusalem and Duchess of Swabia . Since Konradin moved to Italy a year later and was executed there, the marriage was never consummated . Later historians therefore only spoke of an engagement , not a marriage. Interestingly enough, when Konradin sought refuge with Giovanni Frangipani after the defeat by Karl von Anjou , he offered to marry his daughter if the latter would support him in return; at least that is what the contemporary chronicler Bartolomeo di Neocastro reports . Frangipani did not respond, but handed Conradin over.

After Konradin's death in 1268, Sophia married the widowed, decades older Duke Konrad II of Silesia-Glogau in 1271 . This in turn died in 1273/74; Sophia then returned to her parents and turned to religious life.

At the instigation of Sophia and her mother Helene, her father Dietrich founded the St. Claren Monastery in Weissenfels around 1284 , which she and her sisters entered. She later became abbess here and held the office until her death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the European Family Tables , Plate 152, she died on August 24th. In contrast, Reiner Haussherr gives August 14th as the date of death in the catalog of the Staufer exhibition 1977, p. 369.
  2. ↑ Cf. Regesta Imperii V, 1.2, No. 4806b
  3. ^ Taken for example in Morgenblatt für educated readers , Volume 57, Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1863, p. 38
  4. ↑ See Herbert Helbig :  Dietrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 678 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Huschner : The establishment of the Poor Clare monastery Ribnitz (1323 / 24-1331): A sovereign foundation against urban and spiritual resistance. In: Wolfgang Huschner, Frank Rexroth (Hrsg.): Donated future in medieval Europe. Festschrift for Michael Borgolte on his 60th birthday. Akad.-Verl, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004475-0 , pp. 333–351, here p. 336.
    See also: Weißenfelser Bürgererverein “Kloster St. Claren” eV: Timetable .
personal data
SURNAME Sophia von Landsberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Konradin from Staufer
DATE OF BIRTH 1258 or 1259
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1318 or August 24, 1318
Place of death Weissenfels