Philippe de Souabe

Philippe Ier de Souabe born Philippe de Hohenstaufen (1176 - 1208) elected German emperor of 1198 with 1208 at the same time as Otton IV of Brunswick. Marquis of Tuscan 1195 1208, Duke of Alsace and Duc of Souabe (1196 - 1208), King of the Romans and king of Italy.

Biography

  • 1176 it is born from the German emperor Frederic Barberousse and of the countess and empress Béatrice Ire of Burgundy

  • 1197 it marries Irene Ange of Constantinople (1172-1208) (girl of the emperor of Byzance Isaac II Angel) from which it has four children:
    • Béatrice (1198-1212) which marries in 1212 the future German emperor Othon IV of Brunswick and dies the same year
    • Cunégonde (1200-1248) which marries in 1224 the king Venceslas 1 {{er}} of Bohemia (1205-1253)
    • Marie (1201-1235) which marries the duke Henri II of the Brabant (1207-1248)
    • Elisabeth (1202-1235) which marries in 1219 Ferdinand III of Castille and of Leon (v.1200-1252).
  • 1198 two kings are elected under German emperor Philippe de Souabe and the future emperor Otton IV of Brunswick. The pope Innocent III takes the party of Otton (in exchange of exorbitant promises: more imperial intervention in the episcopal elections in Germany, abandonment of any idea of suzerainty on the town of Rome, renouncement of any sovereignty on Sicily which would become again vassal of the Holy See, etc), but this one will be crowned only after the assassination of Philippe in 1208
  • 1208 the June 21st, it dies stabbed in old 32 years with Bamberg (250 km in the north of Munich in Bavaria) by its ally Otton de Wittelsbach, Count Palatine of Bavaria, which it had mortally offended by refusing the hand of his daughter to him. It will never be crowned emperor and his wife dies the August 27th of the same year

  • Among the acts which it granted, one can dated June 3rd, 1208 note the confirmation of the charter of Albert de Cuyck with the middle-class men of Liege.
  • It should be noted that Philippe de Souabe, in the acts of its clean chancellery was made call Philippe II of Souabe in reference to the Roman Emperor Philippe of IIIe century

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