Editing Tannhäuser (section)

==Historical Tannhäuser==     
The most common tradition has him as a descent from the ''Tanhusen'' family of [[Holy Roman Emperor|Imperial]] ''[[ministeriales]]'', documented in various 13th century sources, with their residence in the area of [[Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz|Neumarkt]] in the Bavarian [[March of the Nordgau|Nordgau]]. These sources identify him as being descended of an Old [[Styria]]n noble family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user_(Dichter)?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=Tannhäuser (Dichter) – Wikipedia|website=de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog|accessdate=19 May 2023}}</ref>

The illustrated ''[[Codex Manesse]]'' manuscript (about 1300–1340) depicts him clad in the [[Teutonic Order]] habit, suggesting he might have fought in the [[Sixth Crusade]] led by Emperor [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] in 1228/29. 
For a while, Tannhäuser was an active [[courtier]] at the court of the [[Duchy of Austria|Austrian]] duke [[Frederick II, Duke of Austria|Frederick the Warlike]], who ruled from 1230 to 1246. Frederick was the last of the [[House of Babenberg|Babenberg]] dukes; upon his death in the [[Battle of the Leitha River]], Tannhäuser left the [[Vienna]] court.

Tannhäuser was a proponent of the ''[[Lai (poetic form)|leich]]'' (''lai'') style of minnesang and dance-song poetry. As literature, his poems [[parody]] the traditional genre with irony and hyperbole, somewhat similar to later [[commercium song]]s. However, his ''Bußlied'' (Poem on Atonement) is unusual, given the eroticism of the remaining ''Codex Manesse''.