Itha (Ida) VON CHAM
- Born: Abt 1055
- Marriage (1): Luitpold II VON BABENBERG , Margrave d'Autriche
- Died: Sep 1101, Heracleia, Turkey aged about 46
General Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_of_Formbach-Ratelnberg da was the daughter of Rapoto IV of Cham and Mathilde[disputed \endash discuss]. She is also known as Itha. She married Leopold II of Austria and had a son, Leopold III. She was known as one of the great beauties of her day.
In 1101, Ida, alongside Thiemo of Salzburg and the dukes Welf IV of Bavaria and William IX of Bavaria, joined the Crusade of 1101,[2] and raised and led her own army toward Jerusalem.
In September of that year, Ida and her army were among those ambushed at Heraclea Cybistra by the sultan Kilij Arslan I. Ekkehard of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a harem. Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi, but this is impossible on chronological grounds. Leopold III (1073\endash 1136), who succeeded his father as Austrian margrave, Adelaide (d. after 1120), married Count Theoderic II of Formbach Elizabeth (d. 1107), married Margrave Ottokar II of Styria Gerberga (d. 1142), married Duke Borivoj II of Bohemia Ida, married the Premyslid prince Luitpold of Znojmo Euphemia, married Count Conrad I of Peilstein Sophia (d. 1154), married Henry of Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia from 1090 to 1122, and secondly Count Sieghard X of Burghausen.
Itha married Luitpold II VON BABENBERG , Margrave d'Autriche, son of Ernst VON BABENBERG Margrave d'Autriche and Adelheid VON WETTIN. (Luitpold II VON BABENBERG , Margrave d'Autriche was born in 1050 and died on 12 Oct 1102.)
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