Judith of Babenberg
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Judith of Babenberg (c. late 1110s/1120–post-1168), (Jutta, sometimes called Julitta or Ita in Latin sources), was a daughter of Agnes of Germany and her second husband Leopold III of Austria. The chronicler Otto of Freising was one of her older brothers; Conrad III of Germany her half-brother. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor was her nephew.
She married c. 1133 William V, Marquess of Montferrat, by whom she bore at least eight children. Of their five sons, four became prominent in the affairs of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of Byzantium:
- William Longsword, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem
- Conrad, King of Jerusalem
- Boniface, his successor to Montferrat and founder of the Kingdom of Thessalonica
- Frederick, Bishop of Alba
- Renier, married into the Byzantine imperial family
and three daughters:
- Agnes, who married Count Guido Guerra III Guidi of Ventimiglia. The marriage was annulled on grounds of childlessness before 1180, when Guido remarried, and Agnes entered the convent of Santa Maria di Rocca delle Donne.
- Adelasia or Azalaïs (d. 1232), who married Manfred II, marquess of Saluzzo, c. 1182, and was regent for her grandson Manfred III.
- An unidentified daughter, who married Albert, marquess of Malaspina.
She was still living in 1168, but seems to have died before her husband went to the Kingdom of Jerusalem after their grandson Baldwin's coronation as King of Jerusalem in the 1180s.
