Judith of Schweinfurt
| Judith of Schweinfurt | |
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| Duchess of Bohemia | |
Depiction in the Chronicle of Dalimil, 14th century
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| Spouse(s) | Bretislav I, Duke of Bohemia |
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| Noble family | House of Schweinfurt |
| Father | Henry of Schweinfurt |
| Mother | Gerberga of Henneberg |
| Born | before 1003 |
| Died | 2 August 1058 |
Judith of Schweinfurt (Czech: Jitka ze Schweinfurtu; before 1003 – 2 August 1058) was Duchess consort of Bohemia from 1034 until 1055, by her marriage with the Přemyslid duke Bretislav I.
Her parents were Henry of Schweinfurt (d. 1017), margrave in the Bavarian Nordgau, 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.
According to František Palacký, the young Bohemian prince Bretislav, son of the Přemyslid duke Oldřich of Bohemia, on his way to the court of Emperor Conrad II in 1029 passed through Schweinfurt, where he met Judith and immediately fell in love with her.
Duke Oldřich had forged an alliance with the German king Henry II to depose his elder brothers Boleslaus III and Jaromír. He also had been able to reconquer large Moravian territories occupied by the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave by 1019. Therefore, Oldřich was not averse to confirm his good relationship with the German nobility through a marriage to Judith.
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