Bligger von Steinach

The family was influential, having close connections to the Holy Roman Emperor and to the Bishopric of Worms.

A report of a Pentecostal festival from 1194 in Milano, in which the emperor Henry VI, Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, Philip of Swabia, Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Bligger von Steinach.

Bligger was also present when Henry VI was crowned king of Sicily in Palermo 1194.

[2] As a poet, Bligger II was mentioned by Gottfried von Strassburg in his work Tristan und Isolt.

Gottfried also praised Bligger's work der umbehanc (The Tapestry), which remains lost to this day.