Agnès de Poitou

Events

Date of Birth: about 1025.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Schlesinger and by Bulst-Thiele. Glocker (p. 338) gives about 1024.

Date of Death: 14 December 1077.

Place of Death: Rome.

The date is given by Schlesinger and by Bulst-Thiele.

Place of Burial: Rome, St Peter’s.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Guillaume V “le Grand”, duke of Aquitaine.

This relationship is given by Schlesinger, by Glocker (p. 338), and by Bulst-Thiele.

Mother: Agnès de Mâcon.

This relationship is given by Schlesinger and by Glocker (p. 338).

Spouse: Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor. Married in late 1043.

This relationship is given by Schlesinger, by Glocker (p. 338), and by Bulst-Thiele.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Mathilde (1045 - 12 May 1060) married Rudolf von Rheinfelden.

Adelheid (1046 or 1047 - 11 January 1096). Abbess of Gandersheim. Abbess of Quedlinburg.

Gisela (about 1048 - 6 May, before 1058).

Heinrich IV (11 November 1050 - 7 August 1106), Holy Roman Emperor, married (1) Berthe de Savoie; married (2) Ievpraxia Vsevolodovna of Kiev.

Konrad II (1052 - 10 April 1055, duke of Bavaria.

Judith (about 1054 - 14 March, between 1092 and 1096) married (1) Salomon, king of Hungary; married (2) Władysław I Herman, prince of Poland.

References

Bulst-Thiele, M.L. "Agnes" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).

Cawley, Charles. “AGNES de Poitou” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Schlesinger, Walter. “Agnes” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953) S. 95-96 [Onlinefassung].