When Frederick I became Duke of Swabia in 1079, his coat of arms depicted a black lion on a gold shield.

Otto IV had the upper hand and became the Holy Roman Emperor at the expense of Philip of Swabia.

Under the reign of the Ottonian rulers, the kingdom of the Eastern Franks finally became Germany with the conclusion of the unification of the duchies of Lorraine, Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Thuringia and Bavaria into one empire.

After the death of Emperor Henry VI, who had recently also conquered the Kingdom of Sicily, the succession became disputed: as Henry's son Frederick was still a small child, the partisans of the Staufen dynasty elected Henry ’ s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, whereas the princes opposed to the Staufen dynasty elected Otto, Duke of Brunswick, of the House of Welf.

Because the duchy of Swabia lost its duke in 1268 and was never restored, all vassals of the duchy became immediate vassals of the Imperial Throne ( as has happened in much of Westphalia when the duchy of Saxons was divided and partially dissolved in aftermath of the defeat of Henry the Lion ).

In 1147 he became Duke of Swabia, and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanying his uncle, the German king Conrad III, on the Second Crusade.

Consequently, his younger son Frederick V became the new Duke of Swabia in 1167, while his eldest son Henry was crowned King of the Romans in 1169, alongside his father who also retained the title.

As a result, he became an important vassal in Swabia, the former Alemannic German stem duchy.

In 1196 Philip became duke of Swabia, on the death of his brother Conrad ; and in May 1197 he married the Dowager Queen of Sicily, Irene Angelina, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II and widow of King Roger III of Sicily, a lady who is described by Walther von der Vogelweide as " the rose without a thorn, the dove without guile ".

Tyrol repeatedly became involved in the political and military conflicts of the Habsburgs with Milan, Venice, Switzerland and the County of Gorizia, as well as Bavaria and Swabia.

They were merged in 1972 and became part of the administrative region of Swabia.

In 1149, by the marriage of Adela of Vohburg to the emperor Frederick I, Eger ( Cheb ) came into the possession of the House of Swabia, and remained in the hands of the emperors until the early 13th century, during which time it became an Imperial Free City.

In 911 the East Frankish Carolingian dynasty became extinct with the death of King Louis the Child, whereafter the dukes of Saxony, Swabia and Bavaria met at Forchheim to elect the Conradine duke Conrad I of Franconia king.

In the 6th century Thurgovia became a Gau of the Frankish Empire as part of Alemannia, passing to the Duchy of Swabia in the early 10th century.

He joined the NSDAP in October 1921, as the Party's business manager After 1922, he also led the Nazis ' publishing house, Eher Verlag, which, among other things, published the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps. In 1924 he was elected as a NSDAP candidate to the Munich city council and in 1933 became a Nazi member of the Reichstag for the electoral district of Upper Bavaria / Swabia.

Landsknechts were Germans ( at first largely from Swabia ) and became proficient at Swiss tactics to produce a force that filled the ranks of European armies with mercenary regiments for decades.

From 1632 Memmingen was briefly garrisoned by the Swedish army, and became a base of operations for Swedish troops in Swabia.

Meanwhile, inspired by Sir Walter Scott's novels, Hauff wrote the historical romance Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der wuerttembergischen Geschichte ( 1826 ; Lichtenstein: Romantic Saga from the History of Württemberg ), which became hugely popular in Germany and especially in Swabia, treating as it did the most interesting period in the history of that country, the reign of Duke Ulrich ( 1487 – 1550 ).

After the death of Rudolph III the estate passed to Conrad of Swabia and became an imperial estate.

Much of Eastern Swabia became part of Bavaria, forming what is now the Swabian administrative region of Bavaria.

The younger man became Duke of Swabia instead.

It was founded by the Welfs, a Frankish dynasty in Swabia who became later Dukes of Bavaria and Saxony and who made the castle of Ravensburg their ancestral seat.

Like many other cities in Swabia, at the end of the 13th century Ravensburg became an Imperial Free City in 1276.

Ruled by independent tribal kings during the 4th to 5th centuries, Alamannia lost its independence and became a duchy of the Frankish Empire in the 6th century, and with the beginning formation of the Holy Roman Empire under Conrad I in 911 became the Duchy of Swabia.

After having put down a rebellion by his son, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia and son-in-law, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, set out to Saxony, his duchy.

Additionally, he made the twelve-year-old Rudolph Duke of Swabia, a merely titular dignity, as the duchy had been without an actual ruler since Conradin's execution.

The Hohenstaufen family controlled the duchy of Swabia until the death of Conradin in 1268, when a considerable part of its lands fell to the count of Württemberg, the representative of a family first mentioned in about 1080, a certain Conrad von Beutelsbach, who took the name from his ancestral castle of Württemberg.

Having assumed the title of King of Jerusalem and Sicily, Conradin took possession of the Duchy of Swabia in 1262, and remained for some time in his duchy.

Charlemagne raised the district that was still governed under Frankish rule by a praeses in the 8th century to a county of Raetia, with a reminiscence of its Roman divisions in the name Reciarum comes, " count of the Raetias ", as late as 807 ; it was absorbed into the duchy of Swabia at the beginning of the 10th century.

In the 10th century, Breisgau was a county within the duchy of Swabia, ruled by the Zähringer family, who by the 12th century detached themselves from Swabia, establishing the Margraviate of Baden.

The war broke out in Swabia when a united army of several Lutheran Imperial cities occupied the Catholic town of Füssen, a possession of the Augsburg prince-bishops, and made the Imperial forces move toward the fortress of Ingolstadt in the Bavarian duchy.

In the Middle Ages, the term Swabia indicated a larger area, covering all the lands associated with the Frankish stem duchy of Alamannia stretching from the Vosges Mountains in the west to the broad Lech river in the east: This also included the region of Alsace and the later Margraviate of Baden on both sides of the Upper Rhine Valley, as well as modern German-speaking Switzerland, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein in the south.

The Hohenstaufen dynasty ( the dynasty of Frederick Barbarossa ), which ruled the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries, arose out of Swabia, but following the execution of Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen, on October 29, 1268, the original duchy gradually broke up into many smaller units.

This is a Family tree of the Dukes of Swabia, from 1012 to the end of the Hohenstaufen dominion over the duchy in 1268.

The Dukes of Swabia stem duchy family diagram

In compensation his father King Rudolph appointed him " Duke of Swabia "-more or less an honorific title, as the former stem duchy had been in long-term disarray after the last Hohenstaufen duke, the underage Conradin, was killed in 1268.

This presented a problem, since Saxony was cut off from his duchy of Swabia by the king's lands.

Meanwhile, he was deprived of Swabia by the Diet at Ulm in May, and Henry IV gave the duchy to Frederick of Büren, the first Hohenstaufen ruler.

The Elector of Saxony was vicar in areas operating under Saxon law ( Saxony, Westphalia, Hanover, and northern Germany ), while the Elector Palatine was vicar in the remainder of the Empire ( Franconia, Swabia, the Rhine, and southern Germany ).

* Isaac Sarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland, Swabia, Moravia and Hungary, praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent in contrast to the " great torture chamber " under the cross and urging them to come to Turkey.

The eight 1, 000-strong legiones ( divisions ) included three from Bavaria, two from Swabia, one from Franconia and one from Bohemia under Prince Boleslav I.

Many Swabian counts, including his cousin the young Duke of Swabia, Frederick IV, died in 1167, so he was able to organize a new mighty territory in the Duchy of Swabia under his reign in this time.

Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia, carried on with the remnants of the German army, along with the Hungarian army under the command of Prince Géza, with the aim of burying the emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.

Frederick of Swabia was placed under the imperial ban, Conrad was deprived of Franconia, and the rectorate of Burgundy passed to Conrad of Zähringen.

This was not enough for the young Bavaria Duke, who wished to extend his influence in the Duchy of Swabia as his father had under Otto the Great.

Started by the Arabs of the oldest foundations, enlarged by the Normans restored and strengthened by Frederick II of Swabia is surrounded by walls with round towers built under Alfonso of Aragon in which a Gothic portal dating from the fourteenth century.

In 1101 it was occupied by Ruggero d ' Altavilla or the Norman, was incorporated into the royal domain and saw the strengthening of the important Castle by Frederick II of Swabia and Alfonso d ' Aragon, inserted in the " castra exenta " under the direct royal jurisdiction.

In 865, Louis was obliged by the dissidence of his sons to provide for the eventual division of his territories: Carloman was promised the kingdom of Bavaria ( which Louis himself had once held under his father ), together with the Ostmark ; Louis the Younger was promised Saxony, together with Franconia and Thuringia ; Charles the Fat was promised Swabia, together with Rhaetia.

Between approximately 920 and 976 the Duke of Swabia was the vogt under the abbess in Zurich.

The first castle, located under the present day church St. Bartholomäi, was destroyed after the Battle of Hohenmölsen between Henry IV and Rudolph of Swabia.

He next served in succession under Pichegru and Moreau, and distinguished himself during the skilful retreat of the latter from an untenable position in the heart of Swabia.

On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Maultaschen are a traditional dish in Swabia, because the meat is concealed under the pasta dough and cannot be seen by God.

During the Investiture Controversy of the late 11th century the city of Bellinzona with its castle came under the control of the Hohenstaufens of Swabia.

New Swabia () is a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20 ° E and 10 ° W in Queen Maud Land, which within Norway is administered as a Norwegian dependent territory under the Antarctic Treaty System.

New Swabia is a cartographic area of Queen Maud Land which within Norway is administered as a Norwegian dependent territory under the Antarctic Treaty System by the Polar Affairs Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police.

Dirlewanger was arrested on June 1, 1945 near the town of Altshausen in Upper Swabia by the French occupational authorities while wearing civilian clothes and hiding under a false name in a remote hunting lodge – reportedly recognized by a former Jewish concentration camp inmate, and brought to a detention center.

In the 10th and 11th century Bohemia proper, the March of Moravia and Kladsko were consolidated under the dukes of the ruling Přemyslid dynasty, whose scion Ottokar I gained the hereditary royal title in 1198 from the German ( anti -) king Philip of Swabia.

As part of Salem Abbey, Schemmerberg fell under the jurisdiction of the bailiffs of Upper Swabia, who resided in Altdorf.