Bernhard I. (Lebenau)

Bernhard I († April 17, 1229 ) came from the side branch of the Counts of Lebenau of the Spanheim family . After the death of his brother Siegfried IV in 1210, he followed him as Count von Lebenau and as Vogt of the Salzburg Cathedral Monastery and the monasteries of St. Emmeram and Seeon .

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Bernhard I was the eldest son of Otto I von Lebenau and his second wife Sophie von Plain . After the death of his half-brother, who died childless in 1205, he followed him as Count von Lebenau. On May 18, 1219 Pope Honorius III. for the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal against Bernhard and his brother-in-law Ulrich II. von Peggau, among other things, for evasion of property in Styria. In November 1221 Bernhard I stayed in Graz in the entourage of Duke Leopold VI. of Austria . On May 8, 1224, Bernhard took Duke Leopold VI's Prince's Day. in Friesach . In 1228 Bernhard allied himself with Bishop Gebhard von Passau .

On April 17, 1229 Bernhard I died unmarried and therefore childless. With this the family of the Counts of Lebenau died out. The right of inheritance of the cathedral bailiwick of Salzburg also expired for the entire family of Spanheimers. Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg immediately withdrew the bailiwick rights for the Seeon Abbey. The rich possession of Burghausen fell to the Wittelsbach duke Ludwig den Kelheimer . The Archbishop of Salzburg also secured the core area of ​​the County of Lebenau around Tittmoning for sale from the Bavarian dukes in order to incorporate it into his diocese . The Carinthian possessions, including the castles Rabenstein , Löschental and Lavamünd , fell to his brother-in-law Ulrich von Peggau. The close Spanheimer relatives could only claim a small part of the inheritance for themselves; It is not known why this was only so small at that time, despite its enormous influence. Duke Bernhard of Carinthia secured the Lebenau fiefs of the Freising diocese in Styria from Bishop Konrad I of Tölz and Hohenburg . In 1244 Count Palatine Rapoto III traveled . , which came from the Spanheim side branch of the Counts of Ortenburg , to Archbishop Eberhard of Salzburg to negotiate the Chiemgau rights of Bernhard I. von Lebenau. He succeeded in winning this over as an inalienable fief. Three years later, Philipp von Spanheim became the administrator of Salzburg and tried for years to re-appropriate the County of Lebenau. However, all attempts by the Spanheim family to claim the areas permanently failed.

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).

Web links

• Direct family tree of those from Lebenau
• Family tree of the Spanheimers with branch of the Counts of Lebenau

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried IV.	Count of Lebenau 1210-1229	Philipp von Spanheim