The Dukes of Swabia were the rulers of the Duchy of Swabia during the Middle Ages. Swabia was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German kingdom, and its dukes were thus among the most powerful magnates of Germany. The most notable family to rule Swabia was the Hohenstaufen family, who held it, with a brief interruption, from 1079 until 1268. For much of that period, the Hohenstaufen were also Holy Roman Emperors. With the death of Conradin, the last Duke of Hohenstaufen, the duchy itself disintegrated although King Rudolf I attempted to revive it for his Habsburg family in the late 13th century.
See main article: House of Hohenstaufen. | Frederick I
1079 - 1105
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son of Frederick of Büren and Hildegard of Egisheim-Dagsburg||Agnes of Germany
1089
11 children
|| 21 July 1105
aged 54 or 55|-| Frederick II the One-Eyed
1105 - 1147
|| ||1090
son of Frederick I and Agnes of Germany || Judith of Bavaria
1121
2 children
Agnes of Saarbrücken
c.1132
2 children
|| 6 April 1147
aged 56 or 57|-| Frederick III Barbarossa
1147 - 1152
|| ||1122
son of Frederick II and Judith of Bavaria || Adelheid of Vohburg
2 March 1147
Eger
no children
Beatrice of Burgundy
9 June 1156
Würzburg
12 children
|| 10 June 1190
aged 67 or 68|-| Frederick IV
1152 - 1167
|| ||1145
son of Conrad III of Germany and Gertrude von Sulzbach || Gertrude of Bavaria
1166
no children
|| 19 August 1167
Rome
aged 21 or 22|-| Frederick V
1167 - 1170
||||16 July 1164
Pavia
son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||
unmarried
|| 28 November 1170
aged 6|-| Frederick VI
1170 - 1191
|| ||February 1167
Modigliana
son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||
unmarried
|| 20 January 1191
Acre
aged 24|-| Conrad II
1191 - 1196
|| ||February or March 1173
son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||
unmarried
|| 15 August 1196
Durlach
aged 23|-| Philip
1196 - 1208
|| ||August 1177
son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||Irene Angelina
25 May 1197
4 children
||21 June 1208
Bamberg
aged 30|-|align="center" colspan="7"|Vacancy: 1208-1212|-| Frederick VII
1212 - 1216
|| ||26 December 1194
Jesi
son of Henry I and Constance of Sicily||Constance of Aragon
15 August 1209
1 child
Isabella II of Jerusalem
9 November 1225
2 children
Isabella of England
15 July 1235
4 children|| 13 December 1250
Torremaggiore
aged 55|-| Henry II
1216 - 1235
|| || 1211
Sicily
son of Frederick I and Constance of Aragon ||Margaret
29 November 1225
2 children|| 12 February 1242
Martirano
aged 30|-| Conrad III
1235 - 1254 || ||25 April 1228
Andria
son of Frederick I and Isabella II of Jerusalem ||Elisabeth of Bavaria
1 September 1246
1 child|| 21 May 1254
Lavello
aged 26|-| Conrad IV the Younger
1254 - 1268|| ||25 March 1252
Wolfstein
son of Conrad I and Elisabeth of Bavaria ||never married||29 October 1268
Naples
aged 16
(executed)|-|}
In the 13th century, the Duchy of Swabia disintegrated into numerous smaller states. Some of the more important immediate successor states were:
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During the following century, several of these states were acquired by the County of Württemberg or the Duchy of Austria, as marked above. In 1803 Bavarian Swabia was annexed by Bavaria and shortly afterwards became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.