Bertha VON STAUFEN of Swabia
- Married: Before 25 Mar 1139
- Died: Between 18 Oct 1194 and 25 Mar 1195
- Buried: Abbaye de Clairlieu, Villers-lès-Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France
 Also called Judith.
Research Notes:
The Historia Welforum names "Fridericum imperatorem nostrum et uxorem Mathei ducis Lotharingiæ" as the children of "Friderico Suevorum duci" and his wife Judith. The Gesta Friderici of Otto of Freising names "Fridericum…et Iuditham" as the two children of Friedrich Duke of Swabia & his first wife, and Judith's marriage to "Matthaeo Lotharingiorum duci". The Genealogica ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi refers to the wife of "Matheum ducem" as "sorore Friderici imperatoris". "Matheus Lotharingorum dux et marchio" donated property to Kloster Stürtzelbronn, with the consent of "coniugis mee Berthe et Balduini fratris mei" by charter dated 13 Jan 1143. “Bertha…Lotharingorum ducissa…et filii mei Theodericus, Simon Dux et Marchio, Fredericus, et junior eorum Matthæus, soror quoque ipsorum Aleidis Ducissa Burgundiæ” donated property to Mont Saint-Trinité, for the soul of "viri mei nobilis ducis Matthæi", by charter dated to [1177]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines in 1193 names "Berta sorore imperatoris Frederici" as wife of "ducis Lotharingie Mathie qui dux Mosellanorum dicebatur". 1
Marriage Information:
Bertha married Duc Mathieu I DE LORRAINE, son of Duc Simon I DE LORRAINE Duc de Lorraine and Adélaïde DE LOUVAIN, before 25 Mar 1139. (Mathieu I DE LORRAINE was born about 1119 and died on 13 May 1176.) |
