Frederick of Büren
Frederick of Büren (fl. 1053) was a count in northern Swabia and an ancestor of the imperial Staufer dynasty.[1]
The name Frederick of Büren is known only from the Tabula Consanguinitatis, a Staufer genealogy drawn up by the monk Wibald in the mid-12th century. Wibald writes that Frederick of Büren was the son of an unspecified Frederick and the father of Duke Frederick I of Swabia, "who built Stauf", the castle from which the family later took its name. Otto of Freising, in his Gesta of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, records that Duke Frederick I was descended "from the most noble counts of Swabia" without naming them.[1]
Büren is usually identified with Wäschenbeuren and Frederick with the count of the same name who appears as a witness in a charter of 1053. Also appearing in that charter is the count palatine , who it is speculated may have been Frederick of Büren's father, since the title of count palatine in Swabia is later found with Frederick of Büren's second son, . Wäschenbeuren lies not far from Stauf.[1]
Frederick's stature in Swabia and neighbouring Alsace is proved by his advantageous marriage. He married , a niece of Pope Leo IX. It is generally thought that the Staufer acquired Sélestat through this marriage.[1] Besides the aforementioned sons, Frederick and Louis, Frederick and Hildegard had a son named , who became bishop of Strasbourg, and a daughter named Adelaide, who was the mother of Bishop Otto of Bamberg.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b c d John B. Freed (2016), Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, Yale University Press, pp. 3 and 546, nn. 8 & 9.
- ^ Graham A. Loud; Jochen Schenk, eds. (2017), The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100–1350: Essays by German Historians, Routledge, s.v. Genealogical chart II, "Staufer". This family tree places Frederick of Büren's death before 1054 and also names his son Frederick of Büren.
- Hohenstaufen
- 11th-century German nobility