Maria of Bohemia
Margravine of Austria Duchess of Bavaria
Portrait in the Babenberg pedigree,Klosterneuburg Monastery
Born	c. 1124
Died	after 1172
Buried	Backnang Abbey
Noble family	Přemyslid dynasty
Spouses	Leopold, Duke of Bavaria Herman III, Margrave of Baden
Issue	Gertrude of Baden
Father	Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia
Mother	Adelaide of Hungary

Maria of Bohemia (c. 1124 – after 1172), a member of thePřemyslid dynasty, wasMargravine of Austria andDuchess of Bavaria by her first marriage to DukeLeopold I, as well asMargravine of Baden and Verona by her second marriage to MargraveHerman III.

Maria was the only daughter of DukeSoběslav I of Bohemia and his wifeAdelaide of Hungary, a granddaughter of KingGéza I of Hungary. To strengthen the ties between theBohemian andGerman nobility, her father married her off to theBabenberg margrave Leopold IV of Austria on 28 September 1138.^[1] The bride was in her early teens, and the groom was in his early 30s. The Bohemian-Austrian alliance was confirmed, when Leopold's younger sisterGertrude married Soběslav's nephew, DukeVladislaus II of Bohemia, two years later.

In 1139, one year after Maria's marriage, theHohenstaufen kingConrad III of Germany, having deposed theWelf dukeHenry the Proud, enfeoffed theDuchy of Bavaria to the Babenberg dynasty, ruling theMargraviate of Austria since 976. Margrave Leopold was Conrad's half-brother by their motherAgnes of Waiblingen; the king may also had helped to arrange the dynastical ties with the Bohemian Přemyslids. Leopold took over the rule in Bavaria, he nevertheless had to face the claims raised by Henry's younger brotherWelf VI.

Maria's first marriage lasted three years, ending with Leopold's unexpected death atNiederaltaich Abbey in 1141. As the marriage produced no heirs for Leopold, Austria and Bavaria were inherited by his elder brother, DukeHenry II.

One year later, she remarried to Margrave Herman III, who had beenMargrave of Baden since 1130. Maria was his second wife. Herman participated in theSecond Crusade and in 1151 he was vested with theMarch of Verona by King Conrad III. He remained a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen dynasty during theItalian campaigns of Conrad's successorFrederick Barbarossa.

Maria had the following children with Hermann:

• (?)Gertrude of Baden (d. before 1225), who married in 1180 Count Albrecht ofDagsburg (d. 1211).

Hermann died 16 January 1160. Maria disappeared from then although she may have been alive in 1172. She is buried atBacknang Abbey.

• Lyon, Jonathan R. (2013).Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250. Cornell University Press.
• Vaníček V., Soběslav I. Přemyslovci v kontekstu evropských dějin v letech 1092-1140, Praha-Litomyšl 2007, s. 288-290.

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