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Herman IV
(c. 1015-July 1038) was the
Duke of Swabia
(1030?1038). He was the second son of
Ernest I
and
Gisela of Swabia
.
He was one of the
Babenberg
dukes of Swabia.
Herman became duke in 1030 following the death of his older brother
Ernest II
. At the time he was still a minor.
Seven years later, his stepfather, the
Emperor Conrad II
, married him to
Adelaide of Susa
, the
marchioness of Turin
, in January 1037. Herman was then invested as margrave of Turin.
[2]
In July of the next year, while campaigning with Conrad in
Southern Italy
, he was struck down by an epidemic near
Naples
.
Conrad then transferred rule of the duchy of Swabia to his own son,
Henry I
,
while Adelaide remarried to
Henry of Montferrat
.
He was buried in
Trento Cathedral
on 28 July 1038, because the summer heat made it impossible to bring his corpse back to Germany.
[4]
Because of a late Austrian source, Herman is sometimes mistakenly said to have had children.
[5]
This was not the case. Herman was on campaign for much of his short marriage to Adelaide and he died without heirs.
[6]
References
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- ^
Hellmann,
Grafen
, p. 13
- ^
Iginio Rogger, "Riconsiderazioni sulla storia della Chiesa locale Trentina", in Lia de Finis (ed.),
Storia del Trentino
, Didascalibri, 1994, pp. 66-67.
- ^
On this see E. Hlawitschka, 'Zur Abstammung Richwaras, der Gemahlin Herzog Bertholds I. von Zahringen,'
Zeitschrift fur die Geschichte des Oberrheins
, 154 (2006), 1?20
- ^
Schwennicke,
Europaische Stammtafeln
, I.1, table 84
Sources
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- Ryley, Caroline M. (1964). "The Emperor Henry III". In Gwatkin, H.W.; Whitney, J.P.; Tanner, J.R.; Previte-Orton, C.W. (eds.).
The Cambridge Medieval History:Germany and the Western Empire
. Vol. III. Cambridge University Press.
- Wolfram, Herwig (2006).
Conrad II, 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms
. Translated by Kaiser, Denise A. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
- 'Hermann IV., Hzg. v. Schwaben,' in:
Lexikon des Mittelalters
(LexMA), vol. 4 (Munich and Zurich, 1989), cols. 2161?2162.
- D. Schwennicke,
Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten
(Marburg, 1978).
- S. Hellmann,
Die Grafen von Savoyen und das Reich: bis zum Ende der staufischen Periode
(Innsbruck, 1900), accessible online (but without page numbers) at:
Genealogie Mittelalter
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