Individual Details
Duke Friedrich I von Schwaben,
(Abt 1050 - Bef 21 Jul 1105)
Friedrich was born about 1050, the son of Friedrich von Büren, Graf im Risga, and Hildegard von Schwaben, daughter of Graf Ludwig von Mousson, Castellanus in Mömpelgard, Altkirch und Pfirt, and Sofie of Lorraine, daughter of Friedrich II, duke of Upper-Lorraine.
While still a count, Friedrich began the expansion of the power of the house of Hohenstaufen. He had a castle built on the peak of Mount Hohenstaufen, which became the family seat and gave its name to the family. A castle at Lorch (near Gmünd in Swabia) was converted around 1100 into a Benedictine monastery, which served from then as the monastery of the house of Hohenstaufen.
The heartland of the family still seems to have been relatively small at this time. It was probably confined to the lands around Mount Hohenstaufen together with the properties inherited from Friedrich's mother Hildegard in Alsace, in and around Schlettstadt with the Hochkönigsburg and Hagenau.
The determining event in Friedrich's life was his elevation by Emperor Heinrich IV to the dukedom of Swabia (Schwaben) in Regensburg at Easter 1079. During an uprising of the nobility under Rudolf von Rheinfelden against Heinrich IV, the Hohenstaufen belonged to the royalist minority. At the start of 1079 Rudolf's son Berthold von Rheinfelden had been chosen by Heinrich's opposition to be duke of Swabia. As a countermove Heinrich gave the title to Friedrich, and on 24 March of that year, also in Regensburg, he arranged the betrothal to Friedrich of his not yet seven-year-old daughter Agnes (born between the summer of 1072 and the start of 1073, died 24 September 1143); the marriage took place between 1086 and 1089.
Over the following years neither duke could gain supremacy. After Heinrich was reconciled in 1097 with Berthold von Zähringen, the successor to Berthold von Rheinfelden, the split of Swabia continued, and Friedrich was able to rule only in the north of the dukedom.
He pursued the expansion of power of the house of Hohenstaufen mainly to the north. In the Palatinate over the last years of his rule he became, through his guardianship over the cloister of Weissenburg and the Hochstift (bishopric) of Speyer, and important power figure in the region. With this the Hohenstaufen territory approached the Salian imperial properties in the Rheinfranken (middle Rhine) region. In the south the only substantial holding under Friedrich's control was around Ulm, and beyond the Danube there were only isolated small estates.
During Heinrich IV's Italian campaign (1081-1084), in the emperor's absence Friedrich was the senior imperial military leader in the _Regnum Teutonicum_ (German lands).
Friedrich died before 21 July 1105, and was buried at the monastery of Lorch.
Source: Leo van de Pas
While still a count, Friedrich began the expansion of the power of the house of Hohenstaufen. He had a castle built on the peak of Mount Hohenstaufen, which became the family seat and gave its name to the family. A castle at Lorch (near Gmünd in Swabia) was converted around 1100 into a Benedictine monastery, which served from then as the monastery of the house of Hohenstaufen.
The heartland of the family still seems to have been relatively small at this time. It was probably confined to the lands around Mount Hohenstaufen together with the properties inherited from Friedrich's mother Hildegard in Alsace, in and around Schlettstadt with the Hochkönigsburg and Hagenau.
The determining event in Friedrich's life was his elevation by Emperor Heinrich IV to the dukedom of Swabia (Schwaben) in Regensburg at Easter 1079. During an uprising of the nobility under Rudolf von Rheinfelden against Heinrich IV, the Hohenstaufen belonged to the royalist minority. At the start of 1079 Rudolf's son Berthold von Rheinfelden had been chosen by Heinrich's opposition to be duke of Swabia. As a countermove Heinrich gave the title to Friedrich, and on 24 March of that year, also in Regensburg, he arranged the betrothal to Friedrich of his not yet seven-year-old daughter Agnes (born between the summer of 1072 and the start of 1073, died 24 September 1143); the marriage took place between 1086 and 1089.
Over the following years neither duke could gain supremacy. After Heinrich was reconciled in 1097 with Berthold von Zähringen, the successor to Berthold von Rheinfelden, the split of Swabia continued, and Friedrich was able to rule only in the north of the dukedom.
He pursued the expansion of power of the house of Hohenstaufen mainly to the north. In the Palatinate over the last years of his rule he became, through his guardianship over the cloister of Weissenburg and the Hochstift (bishopric) of Speyer, and important power figure in the region. With this the Hohenstaufen territory approached the Salian imperial properties in the Rheinfranken (middle Rhine) region. In the south the only substantial holding under Friedrich's control was around Ulm, and beyond the Danube there were only isolated small estates.
During Heinrich IV's Italian campaign (1081-1084), in the emperor's absence Friedrich was the senior imperial military leader in the _Regnum Teutonicum_ (German lands).
Friedrich died before 21 July 1105, and was buried at the monastery of Lorch.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Events
| Birth | Abt 1050 | ||||
| Marriage | Abt 1086 | Agnes von Franken | |||
| Death | Bef 21 Jul 1105 | ||||
| Burial | Monastery of Lorch |
Families
| Spouse | Agnes von Franken (1072 - 1143) |
| Child | Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen, Duke of Schwaben (1090 - 1147) |
| Child | Konrad III von Schwaben, King of the Romans Herzog von Franken (1093 - 1152) |