Sophia of Wittelsbach

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Sophia of Wittelsbach
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Picture of Sophia in the Elisabeth psalter
Born1170
Died1238 (aged 67–68)
Noble familyHouse of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia
Issue
FatherOtto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
MotherAgnes of Loon

Sophia of Wittelsbach (1170–1238) was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, who was Count Palatine and later Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon.

In 1196, Sophia married Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia; she was his second wife. They had the following children:

  • Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt
  • Louis IV (1200–1227)
  • Herman (1202–1216)
  • Conrad (1204–1247), grand master of the Teutonic Knights
  • Henry Raspe (1204–1247)
  • Agnes, married twice:
    1. in 1225 to Henry "the Profane" of Babenberg (1208–1228), a son of Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
    2. in 1229 to Duke Albert I of Saxony (c. 1175 – 1261)


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