Individual Details
Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
(1055 - Sep 1101)
According to Wikipedia:
Ida of Austria (c. 1055 - September 1101) was a Margravine of Austria by marriage to Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army.[1]
Wife
Ida was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde[disputed - discuss]. She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.
In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, joined the Crusade of 1101,[2] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.
In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds.
In fiction
Ida's fate is depicted in Beloved Pilgrim by Christopher Hawthorne (2011).
Issue
Leopold III (1073-1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave,
Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach
Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Boøivoj II of Bohemia
Ida, married the Pøemyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo
Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein
Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and secondly Count Sieghard X of Burghausen.
See also
Kilij Arslan II - who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion[citation needed]
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According to Wikipedia:
Ida of Austria (c. 1055 - September 1101) was a Margravine of Austria by marriage to Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army.[1]
Wife
Ida was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde[disputed - discuss]. She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.
In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, joined the Crusade of 1101,[2] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.
In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds.
In fiction
Ida's fate is depicted in Beloved Pilgrim by Christopher Hawthorne (2011).
Issue
Leopold III (1073-1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave,
Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach
Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Borivoj II of Bohemia
Ida, married the Premyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo
Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein
Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and secondly Count Sieghard X of Burghausen.
See also
Kilij Arslan II - who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion[citation needed]
Ida of Austria (c. 1055 - September 1101) was a Margravine of Austria by marriage to Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army.[1]
Wife
Ida was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde[disputed - discuss]. She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.
In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, joined the Crusade of 1101,[2] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.
In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds.
In fiction
Ida's fate is depicted in Beloved Pilgrim by Christopher Hawthorne (2011).
Issue
Leopold III (1073-1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave,
Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach
Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Boøivoj II of Bohemia
Ida, married the Pøemyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo
Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein
Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and secondly Count Sieghard X of Burghausen.
See also
Kilij Arslan II - who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion[citation needed]
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According to Wikipedia:
Ida of Austria (c. 1055 - September 1101) was a Margravine of Austria by marriage to Leopold II of Austria. She was a crusader, participating in the Crusade of 1101 with her own army.[1]
Wife
Ida was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde[disputed - discuss]. She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.
In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, joined the Crusade of 1101,[2] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.
In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds.
In fiction
Ida's fate is depicted in Beloved Pilgrim by Christopher Hawthorne (2011).
Issue
Leopold III (1073-1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave,
Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach
Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Borivoj II of Bohemia
Ida, married the Premyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo
Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein
Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and secondly Count Sieghard X of Burghausen.
See also
Kilij Arslan II - who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion[citation needed]
Events
| Birth | 1055 | ||||
| Marriage | 1065 | Leopold II, Margrave of Austria | |||
| Death | Sep 1101 |
Families
| Spouse | Leopold II, Margrave of Austria (1050 - 1095) |
| Child | Ida of Austria ( - ) |
| Child | Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (1073 - 1136) |
| Father | Living |
| Mother | Living |
| Father | Living |
| Mother | Living |