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The House of Welf (also Guelf or Guelph [1]) is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconian family from the Meuse-Moselle area was closely related to the imperial family of the Carolingians.
The older of the two groups was the Burgundian group.When the name first appeared in surviving documents, the family was already at the top of Francia society, with Welf, the first Count of Altdorf, the father-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious (the son and heir of Charlemagne).
The elder branch of the original House of Este, known as the House of Welf (were also called Guelfs "Guelf" or "Guelph" which derives from the Italianized name for original “Welf”), produced dukes of Bavaria (1070–1139, 1156–1180), dukes of Saxony (1138–1139, 1142–1180), a Holy Roman Emperor, Otto IV (1198–1218), dukes of ...
Welf I (or Hwelf; died c. 825) is the first documented ancestor of the Elder House of Welf. He is mentioned as a count ( comes ) in the Frankish lands of Altdorf in Alamannia . He is the son of Rothard of the Argengau and grandson of Hardrad .
He was a member of the House of Welf, a prominent German noble family. George was part of a cadet branch of the family known as the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg, which held territories in what is now Lower Saxony in Germany. George was the sixth son of William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1535–1592) and Dorothea of Denmark (1546–1617).
Welf was the oldest son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Judith of Flanders. [3] In 1088 [4] or 1089, [5] when Welf was still a teenager, he married Matilda of Tuscany, [3] who was more than twenty years older than him, in order to strengthen the relation between his family and the pope during the Investiture Controversy between king and pope. [6]
Welf III was the only son of the Swabian count Welf II of Altdorf (died 1030) and Imiza, [1] a daughter of Count Frederick of Luxembourg and niece of the later empress Cunigunde of Luxembourg. [2] His sister Kunigunde of Altdorf ( c. 1020 – 1054) married Margrave Albert Azzo II, of Milan , a member of the Italian House of Este , and became ...
Family tree of the Welfs from the Fulda manuscript of the Historia. The Historia Welforum is an anonymous Latin prose chronicle of the House of Welf written around 1170. [1] The original covers the period c. 825 –1167, but continuations bring it down to 1208.