Adelaide of Vohburg

Adela of Vohburg (* end of 1128; † after 1187 in Kloster Weißenau ) from the house of Diepoldsberg Inger- Rapotonen was heiress of the Cheb region and the first wife of the future Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, German Queen and Duchess of Swabia.

Life

Adela of Vohburg was a daughter of the Marquis Diepoldsberg III. of Vohburg and his second wife Gwendolyn of Beichlingen, the widow of Count Wiprecht III. of Groitzsch. Some sources see Adela, the daughter of Diepolds first wife, the Polish Princess Adelheid. But for Cunegonde as a mother speaks that this granddaughter of Adela of Louvain was and Adela had thus received the name of her great-grandmother. From the first and third marriage her father had Adela probably five half siblings as well as three sisters and one brother from the marriage Diepolds with her mother.

The acquired from her father Cheb was drafted after his death in 1146 by the crown. King Conrad III. married 1147 in Eger, the heiress Adela with his nephew, Duke Friedrich III. of Swabia, later Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. This could expand his power base as Duke of Swabia to the East Frankish space into critical dowry Adela.

The marriage was unhappy. Friedrich joined with Adela almost never publicly, it was not also present at his coronation as King of Germany 1152. In March 1153, the marriage ended in divorce after seven years without difficulty by Bishop Hermann of Constance. Official reason of the divorce was the degree of relationship between Frederick and Adela ( Adela's great-grandmother was a sister of Frederick's great-grandfather ). Presumably, however, is an assumed infertility Adela's the real reason, or even adultery of the queen. She married again namely already at the turn of 1153/1154 and this is still far below the levels observed Dietho of Ravensburg (* 1130, † after 1187 ). As commonly tacitly disappeared the divorced wife of a king in a monastery, Adela, however, so soon after the divorce without objection of the ruler far below their remarried, much to be said for adultery Adela. Both Friedrich and Adela had in their respective second marriage children, so the supposed infertility Adela is refuted.