Friedrich von Büren

Frederick of Büren was a count in northern Swabia and an ancestor of the imperial Staufer dynasty.

The name Frederick of Büren is known only from the Tabula Consanguinitatis, a Staufer genealogy drawn up by the monk Wibald in the mid-12th century. Wibald writes that Frederick of Büren was the son of an unspecified Frederick and the father of Duke Frederick I of Swabia, "who built Stauf", the castle from which the family later took its name. Otto of Freising, in his Gesta of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, records that Duke Frederick I was descended "from the most noble counts of Swabia" without naming them.