The family was founded by a count in Carolingian times whose  daughter married Loius the Pious and whose subsequent descendants  held the lands of Bavaria and parts of Saxony.
The family was founded by a count in Carolingian times whose  daughter married Loius the Pious and whose subsequent descendants  held the lands of Bavaria and parts of Saxony. In the 11th and 12th  centuries it frequently clashed with the Swabian Hohenstaufens and  several of the Holy Roman Emperors of that dynasty, and though this  conflict was repaired in Gemany itself by 1235 their tradition of  opposing the Emperor caused the assumption of the name by the  anti-imperial, pro-papal faction in Italy. For 10 points name this  family, which later came to rule England through George I, also  known as the opponents of the Ghibbelines.
The family was founded by a count in Carolingian times whose  daughter married Loius the Pious and whose subsequent descendants  held the lands of Bavaria and parts of Saxony.
Welf (accept Guelph)