Adela (Rapotonen) von Vohburg (bef. 1127)

Ancestors

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Biography

Adela was born before 1127, the year her mother died.^[1] She was the daughter of Diepold von Vohburg) and Adelheid von Polen. She married Friedrich Barbarossa in 1147 just before he left for the second crusade, with some authors suggesting 1149 after his return.^[2] He divorced her in 1153.^[3][4][5] Ostensibly this divorce was due to forbidden consanguinity, mentioned in most sources as reason and based in the secondary literature on Wibald von Stablo's Tabula consanguinitatis^[6] but this long held assumption can no longer be maintained: this relationship was in the 11th degree by Roman counting and only 7th degree and closer was considered an impediment to marriage.^[7][8] Furthermore, Friedrich was related to his second wife Beatrix von Burgund by the same degree. Perhaps Otto von St. Blasien got it right after all citing infidelity (causa fornicationis sepius) as the reason.^[9] This first marriage remained childless but soon after the divorce she married Dietho von Ravensburg^[4] and apparently had children.^[10] Date and place of her death are unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ Oefele, Andreas Felix von, Rerum Boicarum Scriptores Nusquam Antehac Editi : Quibus Vicinarum Quoque Gentium nec non Germaniae universae Historiae Ex Monumentis Genuinis Historicis Et Diplomaticis Plurimum Illustrantur. 1, Anonymi Monachi Reichenbacensis Chronicon Monasterii sui, Augustae Vindelicorum : Sumptibus Ignatii Adami & Francisci Antonii Veith Biblopolarum, MDCCLXIII, p. 402
2. ↑ Fundatio Monasterii Waldsassensis 2, MGH SS 15,2, p. 1092
3. ↑ Annales Herbipolenses, MGH SS 16, p. 9
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Burchardi et Cuonradi Urspergensium Chronicon, MGH SS 23, p. 346
5. ↑ Continuatio Admuntensis, MGH SS 9, p. 582
6. ↑ Bibliotheca Rerum Germanicarum, vol. 1. Monumenta Corbeiensia, (Berlin: Weidmann, 1864), p. 547, digital images, (Archove.org: accessed 24 January 2020).
7. ↑ Weshalb war die Auflösung der Ehe Friedrich Barbarossas und Adelas von Vohburg möglich?, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters / Zeitschriftenband (2005) / Zeitschriftenteil / Artikel / 509 - 536
8. ↑ For a synopsis of the argument see Tabula consanguinitatis von Wibald von Stablo
9. ↑ Ottonis Frisingensis Continuatio Sanblasiana 10, MGH SS 20, p. 307
10. ↑ Franz Ludwig Baumann, Acta S. Petri in Augia. Vier Quellenschriften des 13. Jh. aus dem Kloster Weissenau bei Ravensburg, De prediis circumiacentibus claustro, G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1877, p. 16