Judith of Schweinfurt
Judith of Schweinfurt (Czech: Jitka ze Schweinfurtu / in old Czech: Jitka ze Svinibrodu; before 1003 – 2 August 1058) was Duchess consort of Bohemia from 1034 until 1055, by her marriage with the Přemyslid duke Bretislav I.[1][2][3][4]
Judith of Schweinfurt
Family[edit]
Her parents were Henry of Schweinfurt (d. 1017), margrave in the Bavarian Nordgau,[1] and his wife Gerberga of Henneberg. Margrave Henry and his father Berthold may have been descendants of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and related to the Luitpolding dynasty. Berthold's brother (or nephew) Margrave Leopold I of Austria became progenitor of the Younger House of Babenberg. She was raised at the nunnery her family had founded in Schweinfurt.[5][6][7]
Exile in Hungary[edit]
After Bretislav died in 1055, Judith was expelled by her son Spytihněv out of Bohemia, like many other Germans, and moved to the Kingdom of Hungary with her younger son Vratislaus.[13] In Hungary she may have secondly married the former king Peter Orseolo, who had been deposed in 1046.[14][15] Judith died in 1058 and her mortal remains were transferred to St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.[16]