Alram II (Ortenburg)

Alram II († 1460 ) is the second son of Alram I , the Count of Ortenburg-Dorfbach from the Ortenburgers' house . Alram succeeded his uncle Etzel in 1444 as the acting Count of Ortenburg. Under Alram's reign, the county of Ortenburg was granted imperial immediacy .

Live and act

Alram and his siblings were first mentioned in a document as early as 1422 as the grandson of Count Heinrich IV von Ortenburg . In the same year Alram II becomes the nurse to Fürsteneck .

Thanks to his efforts to improve relations between the Duke of Bavaria, the Bishop of Passau and the Count of Ortenburg, which had been tense for decades, he succeeded in releasing the County of Ortenburg from the vassalage of the Bavarian dukes.

On March 23, 1431, the county, the castles and the associated blood jurisdiction were enfeoffed by the later Emperor Sigismund , and Ortenburg became immediately imperial. Alram, however, did not yet carry out the office as Reichsgraf, since in the Ortenburg house the domiciliary right of seniority succession applied, i. H. only the oldest living count was allowed to rule the county. This was Alram's uncle Etzel I at the time .

In 1443 Alram becomes the council of the dukes of Bavaria-Landshut . He is also in the service of the Passau bishops . This leads to further relaxation of the stressed relationships.

On July 23, 1444 Alram was by King Friedrich III . enfeoffed with the county, a month later his uncle officially renounced in his favor. In the years 1444 and 1445, Alram was the keeper on the Georgsberg for a few years and thus the keeper of the Veste Oberhaus near Passau .

With Alram's death in 1460, the Ortenburg-Dorfbach line died out. His possessions fall to the Neu-Ortenburg house . His successor as Imperial Count is his cousin Georg II.

progeny

Alram II was married to Agnes von Waldburg . The following child arose from this marriage:

• Veronika († October 31, 1461 ), ∞ Wolfgang V. von Walsee zu Enns

literature

• Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).
• Friedrich Hausmann: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents of the family and county of Ortenburg (in Tambach and Munich) Volume 1: 1142–1400 (= Bavarian archive inventories 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
• Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Volume 2: The Count's House in Bavaria. Rückert, Vilshofen 1932.
• Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 , Landshut 1863 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and countial general house of Ortenburg: edited from the sources , Sulzbach 1828 ( digitized ).

Web links

• Root list on Genealogy.euweb.cz
• Genealogy of the Counts of Ortenburg

predecessor	Office	successor
Etzel I.	Count of Ortenburg 1444–1460	George II