Sophia of Wittelsbach
Sophia of Wittelsbach | |
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Picture of Sophia in the Elisabeth psalter | |
Spouse(s) | Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia |
Noble family | House of Wittelsbach |
Father | Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria |
Mother | Agnes of Loon |
Born | 1170 |
Died | 1238 |
Sophia of Wittelsbach (1170-1238) was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, who was Count Palatine and later Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon.
In 1196, Sophia married Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia; she was his second wife. They had the following children:
- Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt
- Louis IV (1200-1227)
- Herman (1202-1216)
- Conrad (1204-1247), grand master of the Teutonic Knights
- Henry Raspe (1204-1247)
- Agnes, married twice:
- in 1225 to Henry "the Profane" of Babenberg (1208-1228), a son of Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
- in 1229 to Duke Albert I of Saxony (c. 1175 – 1261)