Imiza of Luxembourg
{{Short description|German noblewoman}}
{{ infobox noble
| name = Imiza of Luxembourg
| title =
| image = Wgt Stifterbüchlein 22r.jpg
| caption = Imiza in the Weingarten Stifterbüchlein, {{circa|1510}}
| noble family= House of Ardenne–Luxembourg
Elder House of Welf
| father = Frederick of Luxembourg
| mother = Ermentrude of Gleiberg
| spouse = Welf II, Count of Swabia
| issue = Kunigunde of Altdorf
Welf III
| birth_date = {{circa|990/1000}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = after {{circa|1055/6}}
| death_place =
| burial_place = Altomünster
}}
Imiza of Luxembourg (also Irmentrude and Ermentrude) ({{circa|990/1000}} – after {{circa|1055/6}}),Glocker, Die Verwandten der Ottonen, p. 348. was a German noblewoman. She was the daughter of Frederick of Luxembourg, and the wife of Welf II of Swabia.
Life
Imiza was the daughter of Frederick of Luxembourg and Ermentrude of Gleiberg.Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln, table 17. She was a direct descendant of Charlemagne, and her paternal aunt, Cunigunde was married to Emperor Henry II.Renn, Das erste Luxemburger Grafenhaus, pp. 137ff.
She was married to Welf II, Count of Swabia, probably in 1017.Schneidmüller, Die Welfen, p. 120. See, however, Störmer, ‘Die Welfen in der Reichspolitik,’ p. 257, who suggests that the marriage may have taken place in 1015; and Glocker, Die Verwandten der Ottonen, p. 348 who suggests that the marriage took place as early as 1005. Imiza’s dowry included the estates of Mehring am Lech (near Augsburg) and Elisina (modern Solesino).Baaken, ‘Welfischer Besitz in der Markgrafschaft Verona,‘ esp. pp. 73f. Imiza probably received this property at the intervention of her aunt, Empress Cunigunde.Schneidmüller, Die Welfen, pp. 121-122 Probably because of this connection Henry II also granted the Duchy of Carinthia to Imiza's son, Welf III (previously Carinthia had been ruled personally by the German emperors).Dopsch, ‘Welf III und Kärnten,’ p. 101.
Imiza outlived her son, Welf III, who never married and had no children.Steindorff, Jahrbücher, II, p. 319. Welf bequeathed his property to the monastery of Altdorf, where his mother had become abbess.Schneidmüller, Die Welfen, p. 127 She in turn gave the property to Welf IV, her grandson by her daughter Cunigunde.Störmer, ‘Die Welfen in der Reichspolitik,’ p. 261.
Issue
With Welf II, Imiza had two children:
- Cuniza (or Cunigunde){{sfn|Hoensch|2000|loc=Tafel I}}
- Welf III{{sfn|Hoensch|2000|loc=Tafel I}}
References
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Sources
- K. Baaken, ‘Elisina curtis nobilissima. Welfischer Besitz in der Markgrafschaft Verona und die Datierung der Historia Welforum,’ Deutsches Archiv 55 (1999), 63-94
- H. Dopsch, ‘Welf III und Kärnten,’ in D. Bauer, et al., eds., Welf IV. - Schlüsselfigur einer Wendezeit: Regionale und europäische Perspektiven (Munich, 2004), pp. 84–128.
- W. Glocker, Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik (Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Vienna, 1989).
- {{cite book |first=Jörg K. |last=Hoensch |title=Die Luxemburger: Eine spätmittelalterliche Dynastie gesamteuropaischer Bedeutung, 1308-1437 |publisher=Verlag W. Kohlhammer |language=German |year=2000}}
- H. Renn, Das erste Luxemburger Grafenhaus (963-1136) (Bonn, 1941).
- B. Schneidmüller: Die Welfen. Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819–1252). (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 119–123
- D. Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln Neue Folge, vol. I.1 (Frankfurt am Main 1998).
- E. Steindorff, Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich III., 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1874-1881), accessible online at: [https://archive.org/stream/jahrbcherdesde12steiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up archive.org]
- W. Störmer, ‘Die süddeutschen Welfen unter besondere Berücksichtigung ihrer Herrschaftspolitik im bayerisch-schwäbischen Grenzraum,’ in K-L. Ay, L. Maier and J. Jahn, eds., Die Welfen. Landesgeschichtliche Aspekte ihrer Herrschaft (Constance, 1998), pp. 57–96.
- W. Störmer, 'Die Welfen in der Reichspolitik des 11. Jahrhunderts,' Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 104 (1996), 252-265.
External links
- [http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/welfen/welfen_sueddeutsche_linie/irmengard_von_luxemburg_graefin_von_altdorf_nach_1055/irmengard_von_luxemburg_graefin_von_altdorf_+_nach_1055.html Irmengard von Luxemburg, Gräfin von Altdorf] (in German)
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Category:11th-century German women
Category:11th-century German nobility