Swabia
Proper noun
Meaning
Swabia
(historical) A historical region in Germany.
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In Swabia and Bavaria saints pass by the rainbow from heaven to earth; while in Polynesia this is the route of the gods themselves.
Additionally, he made the twelve-year-old Rudolf Duke of Swabia, a merely titular dignity, as the duchy had been without an actual ruler since Conradin 's execution.
Duckett, pg. 100 The Emperor, aided by the Duke of Swabia and Bavaria, met the rebels at Passau and, after a long siege, forced them into submission.
By this time, the office of duke of Swabia had been fully subsumed into the office of the king, and without royal authority had become meaningless.
By the marriage, Ernest I inherited the Duchy of Swabia at the death of Gisela's brother Duke Herman III of Swabia in 1012.
Children Edith and Otto's children were: * Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930 – 6 September 957).