Arnulf II (Bavaria)

Arnulf II (* around 913; † July 22, 954 near Regensburg ) had been Count Palatine of Bavaria since 938 . He came from the Luitpoldinger family .

ancestry

Arnulf was the second son of Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria and his wife Judith von Friuli , a daughter of Count Eberhard in Sülichgau (from the Unruochinger family ) and Gisela von Verona.

Luitpolding rebellion, submission and appointment as Count Palatine

In the conflict between his brother Eberhard and Otto the Great , who wanted to curtail the special Bavarian position granted to their father in the Reich Association, Arnulf was on Eberhard's side from 937-938. Otto defeated the rebellious brothers in two campaigns, banished Eberhard, and made their uncle, Arnulf I's brother Berthold , duke. Berthold had previously renounced the exercise of important royal privileges such as the right to be appointed bishop and the administration of the imperial property in Bavaria. Arnulf managed to escape to Carinthia, where his family had extensive allod property . After he submitted to Otto soon afterwards, however, he was again accepted into grace in 938 and entrusted by Otto with the newly created office of Count Palatine in Bavaria and the administration of the imperial estates in Bavaria.

Liudolfin uprising

Heinrich Liudolfinger , who was appointed the new Bavarian Duke by Otto in 948 after Berthold's death , and who was married to Arnulf's daughter Judith , made Arnulf his governor in Bavaria in 953 when he moved with a Bavarian exemption against the rebellious King's son and Duke Liudolf of Swabia , who kept Mainz occupied. In this situation, Arnulf rebelled together with his son Berthold , his brother Hermann and his cousin Herold , the Archbishop of Salzburg, against the ousting of his family from the ducal office by King Otto and allied themselves with Liudolf. It is not certain whether the initiative came from Liudolf or Arnulf. Arnulf made his inheritance claims against his sister Judith and his brother-in-law Heinrich, claimed the duchy for himself, joined the Liudolfingian uprising, and recognized Liudolf as king. He managed very quickly to take control of most of Bavaria. In December 953 he conquered and devastated Augsburg and then besieged the Augsburg bishop Ulrich, who was loyal to the king, in Schwabmünchen fort . There he was defeated on February 6, 954 by Count Dietpold von Dillingen and Adalbert von Marchtal, who came to Ulrich's aid, and his brother Hermann was taken prisoner.

death

When the Hungarians raided Bavaria shortly afterwards, the rebels concluded an armistice with King Otto that ran until June 15, 954. At the Reichstag in Langenzenn near Fürth on June 16, 954, many of them submitted, including Duke Konrad the Red of Lorraine, but not Liudolf and Arnulf, who marched to Regensburg. There she could lock Otto in and besiege. In an attempted failure, Arnulf fell on July 22, 954 fighting against troops loyal to the king commanded by Margrave Gero .

On May 1, 955, the Liudolfingian uprising was finally crushed with the Battle of Mühldorf . Archbishop Herold von Salzburg was captured and then blinded by Duke Heinrich and exiled to Säben .

Scheyern Castle

According to Karl Bosl, Arnulf is said to have built Scheyern Castle in 940 . His (probable) descendants there later called themselves Counts of Scheyern and became the ancestors of the Scheyrian, later Wittelsbachian Count Palatine of Bavaria.

family

Arnulf's wife is not known by name. She probably came from Swabia and her dowry probably included the traveling castle near Günzburg . Two children are known:

• Berthold († 999)
• Daughter NN ∞ Meginhard I. , Count on the Mangfall

literature

• Rudolf Reiser: Arnulf II. In: Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bosls Bavarian Biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 28 ( digitized version ).
• Christof Paulus: "Peccati pondere gravatus." Count Palatine Arnulf and the Liudolf uprising. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 76 (2013), pp. 365–387.

Web links

• Palatine Count Arnulf, at Genealogy Middle Ages
• Heinrich I of Bavaria, at Genealogy Middle Ages