The Deeds of Wiprecht

Offspring


Thereafter, Wiprecht received two sons from his most noble wife by the name of Judith, the daughter of King Vratislav of the Czechs: Wiprecht the younger and his brother Henry, as well as a daughter named Bertha.

Analysis

This stand-alone description of Wiprecht's progeny, which does not fit narratively or stylistically with any of the surrouding sentences, could have been written by anyone at anytime, as a marginal note or part of some other component text.  It is both plausible and likely that, if Wiprecht married Judith in 1084, he had fathered three children by 1090.  Nonetheless, at the junction in the Deeds where a compiler has inserted it, it chiefly functions to support the conclusion that, by that time, Wiprecht was well established as an important magnate in eastern Saxony.