Göppingen (Hohenstaufen)
Burgruine Hohenstaufen
reine, veuve de Philippe de Souabe, morte au château · 1208
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Irène Ange (Irène de Souabe)
Byzantine princess · Queen of Sicily (wife of Roger III) · Duchess of Swabia · Queen of the Romans (1198–1208)
Byzantine princess, daughter of Emperor Isaac II Ange, Irène (c. 1181–1208) became, through her marriage to Philippe de Souabe in 1197, Queen of the Romans under the name Maria. Her connection to the castle of Hohenstaufen is tragic: after the assassination of her husband at Bamberg in June 1208, she took refuge in the Staufen ancestral fortress, where she died in late August 1208 following a premature birth. She was buried at the abbey of Lorch, the dynasty's necropolis.
Naissancevers 1181, Constantinople
Décès27 août 1208 (28 août selon Burgenwelt), château de Hohenstaufen
FonctionByzantine princess · Queen of Sicily (wife of Roger III)
MaisonAnge (dynastie byzantine) ; par mariage Staufen
Époquelate 12th – early 13th century
Histoire & patrimoine
A Death at the Staufen Castle
Following the murder of Philippe de Souabe in June 1208, the young pregnant queen was at Hohenstaufen, the ancestral fortress of her husband's family. She died there on 27 August 1208, just over two months after him, following a premature birth; the child did not survive. Burgenwelt gives the date as 28 August. This episode is one of the few documented dynastic events at the castle, alongside the charter of Frederick Barbarossa of 1181.
Burgruine HohenstaufenRepères dans sa vie
vers 1181
Born in Constantinople, daughter of Emperor Isaac II Ange.
1193
Marriage to Roger III of Sicily, co-king, who died on 24 December 1193.
25 mai 1197
Marriage to Philippe de Souabe; she takes the name Maria.
1198
Election of Philippe as King of the Romans: Irène-Marie becomes queen.
juin 1208
Assassination of Philippe de Souabe at Bamberg.
27 août 1208
Death at Hohenstaufen castle following a premature birth (Burgenwelt gives 28 August); burial at Lorch.
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Irène Ange (Irène de Souabe) dans l’histoire
“Rose without Thorns”
The Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide, evoking Philippe's Christmas festivities at Magdeburg, celebrates the queen through the image of a rose without thorns and a dove without gall.
Death of Queen Irène at Hohenstaufen
27 août 1208 · Died following a premature birth; buried at Lorch.
Burg HohenstaufenSources de la fiche
Cette synthèse croise plusieurs sources pour documenter les lieux, événements et relations historiques.
- Irene von Byzanz (notice d'autorité, GND 129360449) — Deutsche Biographie
- Philipp von Schwaben — Deutsche Biographie
- Burg Hohenstaufen — Wikipedia (de)
- Burgruine Hohenstaufen — Burgenwelt
- Irene Angelina — Wikipedia (en)