Background
He was the second son of Ernest I and Gisela of Swabia.
He was the second son of Ernest I and Gisela of Swabia.
He was one of the Babenberg dukes of Swabia. At the time he was still a minor. Herman was then invested as margrave of Turin.
In July of the next year, while campaigning with Conrad in Southern Italy, he was struck down by an epidemic near Naples.
He was buried in Trento Cathedral on 28 July 1038, because the summer heat made it impossible to bring his corpse back to Germany. Because of a late Austrian source, Herman is sometimes mistakenly said to have had children.
This was not the case.