94559150. King Philip of Germany & 94559151. Queen Irene Angelina
8/1177, Philip of Swabia born in Italy, youngest s/o 189118300.
Emperor Frederick I & 189118301. Countess Beatrice of Burgundy.
~1180, Irene born in Byzantium, d/o 189118302. Emperor
Isaac II Angelus & 189118303. Eirene ?.
By 1185, Irene’s mother died.
~1187, As a young son, Philip entered the clergy at
Adelberg.
4/1189, Philip made provost at the collegiate church of
Aachen Cathedral.
6/10/1190, Philip’s father died on crusade; his brother
Henry succeeding.
1190-91, Philip elected Prince-bishop of Würzburg [never
consecrated].
1191, Philip accompanied his brother Henry VI, King of
Germany and Emperor of Rome, to Italy, and gave up his ecclestical vows.
1192-94, King Richard of England was held prisoner in
various German cities after being captured while returning from the crusades.
[3 trials were held during this time, attended by Henry VI, and any of which
might have been attended by Philip.]
[––Irene––]
1193, Irene 1st married King Roger III of Sicily,
becoming Queen.
12/24/1193, Irene’s husband Roger died.
1194, Philip [likely] attended his brother Henry’s 2nd
Sicilian expedition; in which Irene was captured.
[––Duke Philip––]
1195, Philip named duke of Tuscany.
4/8/1195, Irene’s father Isaac deposed, blinded, and
imprisoned with his son Alexius; by his elder brother Alexius III.
8/15/1196, Philip became duke of Swabia on the death of his
brother Conrad II at Durlach.
12/1196, Philip’s nephew Frederick, age 3, elected as
successor to his father who was leaving for the crusades.
3/1197, Ships with German crusaders began to leave for the
Holy Land, Philip’s brother King Henry one of the leaders.
[––Philip & Irene––]
5/25/1197, Philip married Irene, dowager Queen of Sicily.
1197, at Augsburg, Philip of Swabia knighted, and took the
cross of a crusader. (S) Courtly Culture, Bumke, 1991, P243.
1197, Philip went to Sicily to get his nephew Frederick for
his coronation [hearing of his brother’s death during the trip].
9/28/1197, Philip’s brother Emperor Henry died of a fever at
Messina; Henry’s son Frederick, age 4, succeeding. [Most of the German nobles
left the crusade to return to protect their interests back home.]
1197, Philip chosen as defender of the Empire during
Frederick’s minority. [The kingship of a child was not popular.]
3/8/1198, Philip elected King of Germany [supported mainly
by the south of the country.]
6/9/1198, Otto IV became anti-King of Germany [supported in
the north, and supported by the Pope who wanted to prevent the unification of
Sicily with Germany.] (S) Holy Roman Emperors.
7/12/1198 at Aachen, the coronation of Otto as King of
Germany.
[––King Philip––]
9/8/1198 at Mainz, Philip crowned King of Germany.
1199, Thibaut, comte de Bar, in right of his wife, bought the
counties of Luxembourg, Durbuy and Laroche, with the approval of Philipp, King of
Germany.
1199, King Philip of France wrote to Pope Innocent in favor
of Philip as Holy Roman Emperor, and specifically against Otto IV. (S) Philip
Autustus, Hutton, 1896, P166.
1199-1200, Germany essentially in a north-south civil war
over who would rule.
1200, Philip and Irene gave 2 of Irene’s diadems to the
cathedral of Bamberg. (S) Catalogue of the Byzantium Coins, V1, 1999, P166.
1200, Pope Innocent issued the Deliberation, giving
arguments for against each of Frederick II, Philip of Swabia, and Otto IV as
holding the title of Holy Roman Emperor. (S) Collected Works of Eric Voegelin,
V20, 1997, P174.
3/1201, Pope Innocent turned his support to Otto, s/o Henry
the Lion, duke of Saxony, as King of Germany.
1201, Pope Innocent excommunicated King Philip. (S) Book of
Concord, Kolb, 2000, P336.
12/25/1201 at Hagenau, Marquis Boniface of Montferrat,
elected leader of the upcoming crusade, visited Philip at his Christmas court.
(S) Pope Innocent III, Moore, 2003, P108. [At this time, Philip and Boniface
agreed to divert the target of the crusade from Egypt to Constantinople.
Philip’s nephew Alexis had escaped prison and attended the court.]
11/10/1202, The crusaders reached,
then captured Zara.
1/1/1203, Philip sent an embassy to Pope Innocent to tell
him of the capture of Zara. (S) Cambridge Medieval History, Vs1-5.
4/1203, The crusades sailed from Zara [with Boniface
remaining behind.]
1203, Meeting resistance,
the crusaders devasted the island of Corfu. [About half the crusaders then
separated, desiring to proceed to Syria rather than Constantinople. An
agreement was reached guaranteeing later transport for the separatists to
Palestine.]
5/24/1203, The fleet
sailed from Corfu for Constatinople. They captured the island of Andros in the
process.
6/24/1203, The
crusader fleet anchored off the abbey of St. Stephen, 7 miles south of
Constantinople. [After a brief skirmish, Alexius demanded the surrended of his
uncle Alexius III as a traitor and usurper.]
7/5/1203, The siege
of Constantinople began with a French attack on the Galata and its defensive
tower.
7/17/1203, The
Venetians, with a sea assault, captured 25 towers on the sea wall, and set fire
to the buildings inside the walls. [That night Alexius III fled to
Mosynopolis.]
7/1203, The
Byzantine officials released imprisoned Isaac Angelus, restoring him to office.
8/1/1203, The young
Alexius IV crowned co-emperor with his father. [Alexius agreed to pay the
crusaders and the Doge of Venice 200,000 marks to put him on the throne of
Constantinople. (S) Archimedes Codex, Netz, 2007.]
1203, Philip
[apparently] returned to Germany at this time.
1/1204, Irene’s father died.
1204, Hermann of Thuringia submitted to Philip.
1/6/1205 at Aix-la-Chapelle, Philip crowned again by Adolf
of Cologne.
5/1205, Philip, supported by the Archbishop of Cologne,
began the siege of Cologne by blockading the Rhine above and below the city.
9/29/1205, Philip began a 5-day attack on Cologne, during
which Otto IV was wounded.
10/1205, Failing to take Cologne, Philip captured Neuss and
other castles and fortifications around Cologne before calling off the attack.
6/1206, Philip again attacked the lower Rhine.
7/27/1206, Philip defeated Otto IV at the battle of
Wassenberg [west of Cologne.] Otto escaped to Cologne. The Archbishop of
Cologne, now supporting Otto, was taken prisoner.
11/11/1206, Philip captured Cologne.
1207, The papal ban on King Philip removed.
6/21/1208, Philip murdered at Bamberg, Germany, by Otto VIII
of Wittelsbach, who had been promised the marriage of one of Philip’s
daughters, and then Philip recanted, and refused to support a different
marriage. [Count Palatine of Bavaria, killed 3/1209, his head was thrown in the
Danube, and his body remained unburied for 7 years.] (S) Courtly Literature,
V25, 1990, P171.
[––Irene––]
8/27/1208, Irene died in childbirth at Hohenstaufen castle, in
Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
(S) History of the Crusades, V-II, Setton, 2006. (S) Oxford
Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare, V1, 2010, P409.
Children of Philip and Irene:
i. Beatrice of Hohenstaufen, born 1198 in Swabia.
1208, Beatrice pleaded for vengence for her father.
1212, Beatrice married Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
8/11/1212, Beatrice died without heirs.
ii. Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen, born 1200 in Swabia.
Cunigunde married King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia.
iii. Marie de Hohenstaufen (47279575), born 1201 in
Swabia.
iv. Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen, born 1203 in Swabia.
Elizabeth married King Fernando III of Castile.
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