Albert III (Tyrol)

Albert III ( Adalbert IV. To other naming and counting) (* about 1182 / 1187 ; † 22. July 1253 ) was the last Count of Tyrol from the House of Albertine and Vogt of Trento . From 1210 he was also Vogt of Brixen .

Life

He was the son of Count Heinrich I of Tyrol († June 14, 1190) and the noble Agnes von Wangen, daughter of Count Adalbero I.

When it was first mentioned on June 24, 1190 after the death of his father, he was still a minor. At the end of January 1202 he appeared for the first time independently at a peace treaty between the Patriarch of Aquileia and the Counts of Gorizia. In 1210 he received from Bishop Konrad (I) von Brixen the bailiwick of the Brixen monastery and took over the previous rights of rule in the Nori and Eisack valleys of the Counts of Andechs-Meranien , who ostracized them in 1209 in connection with the murder of King Philip of Swabians had lost. Albert III took part in the Damiette Crusade from about spring 1219 to early summer 1220 (5th Crusade 1217–1221). During this time it does not appear in any documents in the Alpine region. Near Damiette (Egypt) he gave two farms to the Teutonic Order, which his relatives only hand over after his death.

Albert had no sons; therefore he determined the right of inheritance of his two daughters and married his daughter Elisabeth († October 10, 1256) with Duke Otto II. von Andechs-Meranien († June 19, 1248), his daughter Adelheid († after October 20, 1278) with Count Meinhard III. von Gorizia († 1258) and concluded mutual inheritance contracts with his sons-in-law. After the death of his son-in-law Otto in 1248, he acquired the Tyrolean property of the Andechs and in the same year that of the Counts of Eppan from Hocheppan Castle .

In 1252 Count Albert III attacked. of Tyrol and Count Meinhard III. from Gorizia to the Stiftland of the Church of Salzburg. At Greifenburg they were defeated and captured by Duke Bernhard of Carinthia and his son Philipp von Spanheim , Elekt of Salzburg . In return for the transfer of important possessions in Upper Carinthia, a high ransom and the hostage of the two sons of Meinhard and Albert's grandson, the two were released again. Meinhard III's sons Meinhard and Albert. were held hostage at Hohenwerfen Castle until 1259/1261 .

Albert III died on July 22nd, 1253 under excommunication because of disputes with the bishop of Freising. Pope Innocent IV demanded in an outraged letter of March 15, 1254 the body of the excommunicated Count to be excavated from the Christian cemetery and removed. It is not known whether this order of the Pope, who died in the same year, was followed. In any case, Count Albert III mentions the list of the corpses that were later transferred from Castle Tyrol to the royal crypt of Stams. of Tyrol. His sons-in-law Meinhard III became his heir. von Gorizia (from then on mostly with the additional title "von Tirol I.") and Gebhard IV. von Hirschberg , Elisabeth's second husband. (Gebhard's marriage remained childless, so Meinhard's son of the same name was later able to acquire Gebhard's inheritance.)

In connection with his possessions, Albert had continued the unification of the counties in the mountains to form the province of Tyrol. 1254 this structure was called "dominium" or "comecia Tyrolis".

family

Albert was (from approx. 1211) married to Uta von Frontenhausen- Lechsgemünd († 1254), daughter of Count Heinrich II. († 1208). Progeny:

Adelheid von Tirol (* around 1218/20; † after Oct. 20, 1278), ∞ Count Meinhard III. of Gorizia († July 22, 1258)
Elisabeth (* around 1220/25; † October 10, 1256), 1239 I. ∞ Duke Otto II of Andechs-Meranien († 1248); 1249 II. ∞ Count Gebhard IV. Von Hirschberg († 1275)

literature

Alfons Huber: Albert II. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 205-207.
Eduard Widmoser: Albert II. (III.). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 133 ( digitized version ).
Philipp Jedelhauser: The descent of Bishop Bruno von Brixen, Count of Kirchberg (Iller) with an excursus on Countess Mathilde von Andechs, wife of Count Engelbert III. von Görz and family table of the Counts of Görz , in: Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik, Volume 28, April / September 2016, Vienna, pp. 277–341; Date of birth of Albert p. 282f., Problematic of death of Adelheid von Tirol p. 289, note 61, hostage sons of Meinhards III. P. 288f., Family table Counts of Görz P. 322.
Justinian Ladurner : Albert III. and the last of the original counts of Tyrol , in: Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg, third volume, fourteenth booklet, Innsbruck 1869, pp. 6–146; on Albert's date of death, p. 128f., transferred to Stams, p. 132.

Web links

Entry to Albert III. (Tyrol) in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
http://geschichte-tirol.com/biographien/politik/621-albert-iii-von-tirol.html

Individual evidence

^ Franz Huter : Tiroler Urkundenbuch , I. Abt., Volume 1, Innsbruck 1937, No. 459, pp. 253f., Dated Bozen, 1190 June 24.
^ Hermann Wiesflecker : Die Regesten der Grafen von Görz und Tirol, Pfalzgrafen in Kärnten , Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 317, S. 86f., Dated St. Quirino bei Cormons, 1202 January 27 or 31.
↑ Udo Arnold, Marian Tumler: The documents of the Deutschordenszentralarchiv in Vienna, Regesten I-III , in: Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order 60 / I-III, Marburg 2006-2009, No. 392, dated Schloß Tirol, 1253 September 18, Meinhard Graf von Görz-Tirol a . a. give the Teutonic Order unites two farms in Runschile, which Count Albert of Tyrol near Damiette gave to the German House ...
^ Hermann Wiesflecker: The regests of the Counts of Görz and Tirol, Dukes in Carinthia , Volume II, Innsbruck 1952, No. 245, p. 67, dated 1278 October 20: Alhaid Countess of Tirol, near death, makes will and bequeathed to the Deutschhaus ... (for the problem of dating in the literature see p. 289, note 61 from Ph. Jedelhauser).
↑ Hermann Wiesflecker, Volume I. as above, No. 612, p. 160, Lateran, 1254 March 15.
↑ Wiesflecker, Volume I., No. 358, p. 98, Tyrol, approx. 1211, ( The following witnesses confirm how Count Albertus of Tyrol named his wife and named his sister ....... his own property, Schloss Sumersberg. ..)

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich I.	Count of Tyrol 1202 - 1253	Meinhard I.

personal data
SURNAME	Albert III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Albert the III. from Tyrol; Albert of Tyrol; Albert IV of Tyrol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Tyrol
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1180
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 1253

[1] Franz Huter : Tiroler Urkundenbuch , I. Abt., Volume 1, Innsbruck 1937, No. 459, pp. 253f., Dated Bozen, 1190 June 24.

[2] Hermann Wiesflecker : Die Regesten der Grafen von Görz und Tirol, Pfalzgrafen in Kärnten , Volume I, Innsbruck 1949, No. 317, S. 86f., Dated St. Quirino bei Cormons, 1202 January 27 or 31.

[3] Udo Arnold, Marian Tumler: The documents of the Deutschordenszentralarchiv in Vienna, Regesten I-III , in: Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order 60 / I-III, Marburg 2006-2009, No. 392, dated Schloß Tirol, 1253 September 18, Meinhard Graf von Görz-Tirol a . a. give the Teutonic Order unites two farms in Runschile, which Count Albert of Tyrol near Damiette gave to the German House ...

[4] Hermann Wiesflecker: The regests of the Counts of Görz and Tirol, Dukes in Carinthia , Volume II, Innsbruck 1952, No. 245, p. 67, dated 1278 October 20: Alhaid Countess of Tirol, near death, makes will and bequeathed to the Deutschhaus ... (for the problem of dating in the literature see p. 289, note 61 from Ph. Jedelhauser).

[5] Hermann Wiesflecker, Volume I. as above, No. 612, p. 160, Lateran, 1254 March 15.

[6] Wiesflecker, Volume I., No. 358, p. 98, Tyrol, approx. 1211, ( The following witnesses confirm how Count Albertus of Tyrol named his wife and named his sister ....... his own property, Schloss Sumersberg. ..)