Agnes of the Palatinate

Agnes with her husband Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria

Born| 1201
Died| 1267
Noble family| House of Guelph
Spouse(s)| Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Issue| Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria
Elizabeth of Bavaria
Father| Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Mother| Agnes of Hohenstaufen

Agnes of the Palatinate (1201–1267) was a daughter of Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine, of the House of Welf, by his first wife Agnes of Hohenstaufen, daughter and heiress of Conrad of Hohenstaufen, Count Palatine of the Rhine. She married Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria.

## Family

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Agnes was the youngest of three children born to her father by both of his marriages. Her father's second wife, also called Agnes, was the daughter of Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia. Agnes' older sister was Irmgard, wife of Herman V, Margrave of Baden-Baden and her brother was Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine.

## Marriage

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Agnes married Otto II at Worms when he came of age in 1222.[1] With this marriage, the Wittelsbach family inherited Palatinate and kept it as a Wittelsbach possession until 1918. Since that time also the lion has become a heraldic symbol in the coat-of-arms for Bavaria and the Palatinate.

In 1231 upon the death of Otto's father, Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Otto and Agnes became Duke and Duchess of Bavaria.

After a dispute with Emperor Frederick II was ended, Otto joined the Hohenstaufen party in 1241. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Frederick's son Conrad IV. Because of this, Otto was excommunicated by the pope.

Within thirty-one years of marriage, the couple had:

1. Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (13 April 1229, Heidelberg – 2 February 1294, Heidelberg)[2]
2. Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (19 November 1235, Landshut – 3 February 1290, Burghausen)[2]
3. Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (c. 1227, Landshut – 9 October 1273),[2] married to:
1. 1246 in Vohburg to Conrad IV of Germany;
2. 1259 in Munich to Count Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol, Duke of Carinthia.
4. Sophie (1236, Landshut – 9 August 1289, Castle Hirschberg),[2] married 1258 to Count Gerhard IV of Sulzbach and Hirschberg.
5. Agnes (c. 1240–c. 1306), a nun[2]

Otto died 29 November 1253. Agnes died fourteen years later in 1267. She is buried at Scheyern.

## Ancestry

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Ancestors of Agnes of the Palatinate

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| 8\. Henry X, Duke of Bavaria|

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| 17\. Wulfhilde of Saxony

| 4\. Henry the Lion|

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| 18\. Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor

| 9\. Gertrude of Süpplingenburg|

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| 19\. Richenza of Northeim

| 2\. Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine|

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| 20\. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

| 10\. Henry II of England|

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| 21\. Matilda of the English

| 5\. Matilda of England|

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| 22\. William X, Duke of Aquitaine

| 11\. Eleanor of Aquitaine|

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| 23\. Aenor de Châtellerault

| 1\. Agnes of the Palatinate|
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| 24\. Frederick I, Duke of Swabia

| 12\. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia|

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| 25\. Agnes of Germany

| 6\. Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine|

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| 26\. Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken

| 13\. Agnes of Saarbrücken|

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| 27\. Gisela (of Teckelenburg or Lorraine?)

| 3\. Agnes of Hohenstaufen|

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| 28\. Gotebold II, Count of Henneberg

| 14\. Berthold I, Count of Henneberg|

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| 29\. Liutgard von Hohenberg

| 7\. Irmingard of Henneberg|

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| 30\. Frederick IV of Putelendorf, Count Palatine of Saxony

| 15\. Bertha of Putelendorf|

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| 31\. Agnes van Limburg

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## References

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1. ^ Bumke 1991, p. 483.
2. ^ a b c d e Jeffery 2018, p. i.

## Sources

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* Bumke, Joachim (1991). Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Translated by Dunlap, Thomas. University of California Press.
* Jeffery, Renée (2018). Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: The Philosopher Princess. Lexington Books.i

Agnes of the Palatinate

House of Guelph

Born: 1201 Died: 1267

Preceded by

Ludmilla of Bohemia

|  Duchess of Bavaria
1231–1253  | Succeeded by

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