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Ida joined the Crusade Of 1101 , and in September of that year was among those ambushed at Heraclea by the sultan Kilij Arslan I . Ekkehard Of Aura reports that Ida was killed in the fighting, but rumors persisted that she survived, and was carried off to a Harem . Later legends claimed that she was the mother of the Muslim hero Zengi , but this is quite impossible on chronological grounds.


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  • ''Historia Welforum Weingartensis''

  • Runciman, Steven. ''History of the Crusades, Vol. II''

  • Lechner Karl. ''Die Babenberger. Markgrafen und Herzoge von Österreich 976-1246'', Böhlau Verlag Wien-Köln-Weimar 1992.