Gregory Brown
513 Agnes Arnold Hall
Department of Philosophy
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-3004

Kunigunde (Cuniza) (d. ca. 1055)
Mother of Welf IV. of Bavaria

Detail from the family tree of the Welfs, in Historia Welforum,
Weingarten Monastery (between 1185 and 1191)
© Hessische Landesbibliothek, Fulda

     The family tree of the Welfs in the Historia Welforum uniformly depicts the wife to the left of the husband.
But here Kunigunde, who carried on the Welf line through her son Welf IV. (d. ca. 1101), is, as representative of the Welf House, shown to the right of her husband Azzo II. of Este.