Known as “der Heilige”, “der Milde”, and “der Fromme”.
Also known as Liutpold.
Events
Date of Birth: about 1075.
Place of Birth: possibly Melk.
The date and place are given by Dienst. The date is also given by Röhrig (p. 51).
Date of Death: 15 November 1136.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Dienst and by Röhrig (p. 120).
Place of Burial: Stift Klosterneuburg.
The place is given by Dienst and by Röhrig.
Relationships
Father: Leopold II von Österreich.
This relationship is given by Dienst, by Röhrig, and by Scheibelreiter (2010).
Mother: Itha.
This relationship is given by Dienst and by Röhrig. It has been suggested that she was Itha von Formbach-Radelberg.
Spouse: unknown.
Dienst and by Röhrig give unknown. Some souces give Adelheid von Perg.
Spouse: Agnes von Waiblingen. Married 1106.
This relationship is given by Dienst, by Röhrig, by Weller (p. 336), and by Scheibelreiter.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The mother of all the children was Agnes, except Adalbert, whose mother is uncertain.)
Adalbert (about 1107 - 8 or 9 November in about 1138) married (1) Adelheid; married (2) Hedwig of Hungary.
Leopold IV (died 18 October 1141), margrave of Austria, duke of Bavaria, married Maria of Bohemia.
Heinrich II “Jasomirgott” (died 13 January 1177), margrave of Austria, married (1) Gertrud von Süpplingenburg; married (2) Theodore Komnene.
Berta (died 9 April, about 1150) married Heinrich III, burgrave of Regensburg.
Agnes married Władysław II Wygnaniec, high duke of Poland.
Otto (1112 - 22 September 1158).
Konrad (1116 - 28 September 1168).
Ernst (about 1118 - 23 January 1137).
Gertrud (1120 - 4 August 1150) married Vladislav II, duke of the Bohemians.
Elisabeth (died 20 May 1143) married Hermann II, count of Winzenburg.
Judith married Guglielmo V “il Vecchio”, margrave of Montferrat.
other children who died young.
References
Dienst, Heide. “Leopold III.” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985) S. 277-280 [Onlinefassung].
Dienst, H. "Liutpold III" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 5c (Stuttgart: 1991).
Röhrig, Floridus . Leopold III. der Heilige: Markgraf von Österreich (Herold Verlag, 1985).
Scheibelreiter, G. "Babenberber, jüngerer" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1980).
Scheibelreiter, Georg. Die Babenberger: Reichsfürsten und Landesherren. (Böhlau Verlag: Wien, 2010).
Weller, Tobias. Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert. (2004: Böhlau Verlag).