Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
NameAgnes av Babenberg , 24G Grandmother
Birthc 1108/1113, Wien, Wien, Austria
Death24/25 January 1163
Spouses
Birth1105
Death30 May 1159
OccupationDuke of Cracow
Notes for Agnes av Babenberg
Agnes of Babenberg (
Polish: Agnieszka austriacka; c. 1108/13 – 24/25 January 1163) was a scion of the Franconian House of Babenberg and by marriage High Duchess of Poland and Duchess of Silesia.
Agnes was a daughter of Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, and Agnes, daughter of Emperor Henry IV. Through her mother, Agnes was a descendant of the Salian dynasty, which ruled the Holy Roman Empire since 1024 until her maternal uncle, Emperor Henry V, died without issue in 1125. She was the half-sister of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and King Conrad III of Germany, both born from her mother's first marriage with Duke Frederick I of Swabia. Of her full siblings, one sister, Judith, married Marquess William V of Montferrat, and one brother was Bishop Otto of Freising, a renowned medieval chronicler.
According to Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler and bishop of Kraków (and this opinion is shared by other sources), Agnes was a very ambitious, energetic woman, and proud of her origins. It is no wonder the bishop called her "Tigress" in his Chronica Polonorum.
Agnes and Wladyslaw had the following children:
1 Bolesław I the Tall (1127 – 8 December 1201).
2 Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1131 – 16 May 1211).
3 Richeza (1140 – 16 June 1185), married firstly in 1152 to Alfonso VII, King of Galicia, Castile and León,[2] secondly in 1162 to Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence and thirdly by 1167 to Count Albert III of Everstein.
4 Konrad Spindleshanks (1146/57 – 17 January 1180/90).
5 Albert (c. 1156 - c. 1168/78).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Babenberg
"one of the most famous beauties of her time"