Friedrich
(Friedrich II)
"der Einäugige, monoculus, Herzog von Schwaben"
von Schwaben
formerly Staufer aka von Hohenstaufen
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
Konrad (Staufer) von Staufen, Gertrud (Staufer) von Schwaben, Luitpold von Österreich [half], Agnes Von Babenberg [half], Heinrich (Babenberg) von Österreich [half], Judith (Babenberg) Montferrat [half], Gertrude (Babenberg) Bohemia [half] and Uta (Babenberg) Plain [half]
Husband of
Judith Welf
— married
about 1120 [location unknown]
Husband of
Agnes (Saarbrücken) von Saarbrücken
— married
1132 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Friedrich (Staufer) von Staufen, Judith (Staufer) von Staufen, Judith (Staufer) von Schwaben and Konrad (Staufer) von Staufen
Died
at about age 57
in Alzey, Reichslehen, Heiliges Römisches Reich
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Friedrich II Staufer was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.
Friedrich II (Staufer) von Schwaben has German Roots.
Biography
Friedrich was born about 1090 according to his half-brother Otto von Freising who recorded his age of 15 when his father died in 1105 and he succeeded as Herzog von Schwaben.[1] He was the eldest son of Friedrich I, Herzog von Schwaben, and Agnes von Waiblingen. In 1116 his uncle, Emperor Heinrich V made him regent of Germany during his campaign in Italy,[2] Otto von Freising recording that his brother Konrad shared the position,[3] and upon Heinrich's death without heir in 1125 the brothers inherited the Salian possessions.[4] Friedrich stood for election as king but lost, perhaps because of a desire to prevent a Salian-Staufer continuation of a strong dynasty.
Friedrich married Judith Welf, daughter of Heinrich des Schwarzen, Herzog von Bayern,[5][6] probably between 1119-1121[7][8] since their firstborn, the later Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa was born in 1122 according to a letter of Wibald von Corvey from 1152 stating that he was 30 years old.[9] After Judith's death he married Agnes von Saarbrücken.[10] Friedrich died in Alzey, an Imperial fief, in 1147.[11]
Sources
- ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis I. 10, MGH SS 20, p. 358
- ↑ Casus Monasterii Petrishusensis, Liber III, 43, MGH SS 20, p. 659
- ↑ Ottonis Episc. Frisingensis Chronica, Lib. VII, MGH SS rer. Germ. 45, p. 330
- ↑ Ekkehardi Chronicon, MGH SS 6, p. 264
- ↑ Historia Welforum Weingartensis, MGH SS 21, p. 463
- ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis I. 14, MGH SS 20, p. 360
- ↑ Charles Cawley, Medeval Lands, Friedrich von Staufen
- ↑ Manfred Hiebl, Genealogie Mittelalter, Friedrich II. Herzog von Schwaben
- ↑ Wibaldus Corbeiensis (1098 – 1158), Epistolae (1158): EPISTOLA CCCXLIV. WIBALDI ABBATIS AD EUGENIUM PAPAM III. (Anno 1152.), Corpus Corporum, Universität Zürich
- ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis I. 21, MGH SS 20, p. 362
- ↑ Annales Corbeienses, MGH SS 3, p. 12
- Christoph Friedrich Stälin, Wirtembergische Geschichte, Zweiter Theil, J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1847
- Schwennicke, Detlev, ed. Europäische Stammtafeln. Neue Folge ed. Band I.1. Frankfurt Am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. Tafel 14.
- http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWABIA.htm#FriedrichStaufendied1147A
- Wikidata: Item Q552414
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"Upon the death of Emperor Henry V in 1125, the Salian dynasty became extinct. Frederick II, Henry's nephew, stood for election as King of the Romans with the support of his younger brother Conrad and several princely houses. However, he lost in the tumultuous round of elections,[citation needed] led by Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz, to the Saxon duke Lothair II. Frederick at first rendered homage to the new king, however, he refused the feudal oath and insisted on the inheritance of the Salian family estates along the Middle Rhine.[5]
At the 1125 Hoftag diet in Regensburg, the king officially requested the surrender of the Salian possessions. After he imposed an Imperial ban on the Hohenstaufens, a conflict erupted between Frederick and his supporters, and Lothair: encouraged by Archbishop Adalbert and several princes, the king occupied Hohenstaufen lands in Upper Lorraine and Alsace. However, an attack by Welf forces on the Swabian core territory failed, like the siege of Nuremberg by Lothair in 1127. Frederick relieved the siege and moreover gained the support from his brother Conrad, who had just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. During the fighting, Frederick lost an eye"
edited by Tamara (Killian) Ledkins
Also his fatheris duplicated. [1]