Countess Palatine Irmengard of the Rhine

The Guelph Countess Palatine of the Rhine Irmengard - also known as Irmengard of Baden ( * 1200, † February 24, 1260 ) - was wife of Margrave Hermann V. von Baden. She brought into the marriage the property of the City of Pforzheim, which then remained until 1918 the house of Baden.

She was the daughter of Henry I of the Rhine, the Duke of Brunswick, called the Lange, and granddaughter of Henry the Lion.

She and her husband are known as a supporter of the monasteries in Maulbronn Tennenbach, Herrenalb, Selz, Salem and pin Backnang. Irmengard at Rhein applies in 1245 as the founder of the monastery light valley in Lichtental in Baden-Baden, the later grave place of the Marquis. However, she had taken during the construction of the monastery and then needed to finance the help of her sons. In March 1245 she was given some goods and rights.

" The brothers Hermann and Rudolph, Margrave of Baden, passed her mother Irmengard, which had begun to build a convent for the salvation of her late husband, the Margrave Hermann of Baden, and the legacy of their sins in Beuren near Baden, but not sufficient means to do so possessed the right of patronage of churches in Ettlingen Baden, their tithes in Iffezheim ( deciman, que nobis cedit aqud Vffinshein ), the villages winds and Beuren with all accessories, two courtyards in Oos, a Strasbourg in Eberstein and twelve pound coin of their interest in Selz. "Source: GLA

The brothers gave away more than they belonged, as two parts of the tithe, the brothers themselves had verlehnt to Ludwig of love cell, which led to long disputes.

Irmengard married Hermann V. von Baden 1217, from his marriage to Hermann V. following children were born:

  • Hermann ( * 1225, † October 4, 1250 ); later reigning Margrave
  • Rudolf ( * 1230, † November 19, 1288 ); later reigning Margrave
  • Mechthild († 1259 ) ∞ ( April 4, 1251 ), Count Ulrich I of Württemberg (* around 1222 † February 25, 1265 ), known as the founder.
  • Elisabeth

In 1248 Irmengard convicted her husband's body from the Augustinian Canons Backnang to Lichtental the monastery light valley.

Herman V, Margrave of Baden-Baden Bad Herrenalb Ebersteinburg Herman VI, Margrave of Baden Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden Integrated Authority File
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